Handel Sarabande in D Minor HWV 437 (La Folia), Voices of Music, 4K Ultra High Definition video

The Sarabande in D Minor from Handel’s keyboard suite No. 4, arranged by Voices of Music. Cello solo improvised by William Skeen. Modern arrangements of the sarabande have been used in a number of films, including Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. Dutch singer Petra Berger used the Sarabande as the musical setting for her song about Mary, Queen of Scots, “Still a Queen (In My End Is My Beginning).“ An orchestral version was also used on the first episode of the 2018 television mini-series of Agatha Christie’s “. Murders“, starring John Malkovich as Poirot (Wikipedia). Handel’s composition shares a number of similarities with the “La Folia“ variations, including 16 bar binary phrases with open and closed endings, and alternation between D Minor and A Major with an emphasis on F Major. However, there are also clear differences from La Folia. It’s possible that Handel, who was an excellent arranger, transformed the material of La Folia just as he reworked B