G. F. Hndel - Concerto Grosso Op. 6 N 1, HWV 319 - L’Arco Magico Chamber Orchestra Antonio Puccio

29 September 1739 i. A tempo giusto - ii. Allegro - iii. Adagio - iv. Allegro - v. Allegro The first movement was a complete reworking of a first draft of the overture for Imeneo, Handel’s penultimate Italian opera, composed over a prolonged period from 1738 to 1740. In an influential study, musicologist Alexander Silbiger argues that in the last movement, “beginning with the opening figure, there is a series of almost literal quotations from the Sonata no. 2“ of the Essercizi Gravicembalo of Domenico Scarlatti, which had been published in London in 1738-39.