Arrangements of Baroque opera for home use remain a little-explored field, but, as with opera in other eras prior to the advent of recording, they appeared in substantial numbers. One British publisher, Walsh, issued 11 volumes of Handel arrangements for solo keyboard, wrote Canadian harpsichordist Hank Knox in his excellent booklet notes (in French and English) for the present release, and many of those went into multiple printings. This disc gives a sampling, although it's not clear how many of the pieces are those issued ...
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Arrangements of Baroque opera for home use remain a little-explored field, but, as with opera in other eras prior to the advent of recording, they appeared in substantial numbers. One British publisher, Walsh, issued 11 volumes of Handel arrangements for solo keyboard, wrote Canadian harpsichordist Hank Knox in his excellent booklet notes (in French and English) for the present release, and many of those went into multiple printings. This disc gives a sampling, although it's not clear how many of the pieces are those issued by Walsh. Several come from suites (charmingly misspelled "suits" in the original publication) by one William Babell, combining versions of Handelian opera arias (many from the highly successful Rinaldo) with preludes of his own composition. Other arrangements may have been done by Handel himself. The entire program is both entertaining and uniformly fascinating. The revelation is the degree of ornamentation that appears in these arrangements. Sample the famed "Lascio ch'ia pianga"...
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