Few pieces of music have been recorded more often than the Water Music, but this disc offers a genuinely fresh interpretation. Historical-instrument recordings of Handel (or, as this German release has it, Händel) have mostly been the province of English ensembles, but here the Italian group L'Arte dell'Arco (they're from Padua) under leader/violinist Frederico Guglielmo shows that the innovations applied to Vivaldi and Corelli by young Italian musicians can be just as effective in Handel's case. Many things in the ...
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Few pieces of music have been recorded more often than the Water Music, but this disc offers a genuinely fresh interpretation. Historical-instrument recordings of Handel (or, as this German release has it, Händel) have mostly been the province of English ensembles, but here the Italian group L'Arte dell'Arco (they're from Padua) under leader/violinist Frederico Guglielmo shows that the innovations applied to Vivaldi and Corelli by young Italian musicians can be just as effective in Handel's case. Many things in the recording are new, and the listener who knows the Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music well may find it quite a shock. It's a worthwhile shake-up to one's concept of the music, though. The ordering of the pieces in the Water Music is not the usual one, according instead with a suggestion by Christopher Hogwood that they should be arranged by key. Tempos are often quite fast, with brisk, clipped articulation (sample the Allegro section in the very first track), and Guglielmo's violin parts...
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