Handel: 9 Suites

This album contains the 9 suites by Georg Frideric Handel. Presented by Piano Classics, a label of Brilliant Classics. Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): Available for licensing: More Information: Social media: Facebook: Instagram: Piano Classics Spotify: Piano Classics Spotify: Most Popular Piano Classics: Top 50 Rachmaninoff: Water Inspired Piano Music: Baroque Music on Piano: Peaceful and Relaxing Piano Music Following the success across Europe of his eight ‘Grand Suites’ for harpsichord in 1720, albeit in a doctored and pirated edition, Handel resolved to make good on his promise of a sequel, ‘reckoning it my duty with my small talent to serve a Nation from which I have received so generous a protection.’ At length this occurred, with the appearance in 1730 of a second volume, now containing nine such suites, though again the composer’s responsibility for its publication remains unclear. Handel appears eventually to have entered into cooperation with the London publisher John Walsh once the Royal Privilege he had secured for the printing of his own works had expired. Thus a radically revised edition of the suites appeared in 1733-4, and it is this that Scipione Sangiovanni has recorded. Like the Grand Suites, the second volume contains both original and arranged music for keyboard composed throughout Handel’s career, though heavily weighted towards his youth: virtually all the contents predate 1706 (the exceptions being HWV 434 from before 1717/8 and HWV436 from between 1721 and 1726). Having received no further attention from the mature composer, they retain a sense of the confident if sometimes undisciplined exuberance of his youth. They include the grand, standalone G major Chaconne HWV 435 as well as a still more expansive example of the form, HWV 442. Composer: Georg Frideric Handel Artist: Scipione Sangiovanni (piano) Brilliant Classics: Facebook: Spotify: Instagram: Tracklist: Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 434: 00:00:00 I. Praeludium 00:02:18 II. Sonata 00:04:29 III. Aria con variazione 00:08:45 IV. Minuetto 5 00:12:35 Ciaccona in G Major, HWV 435 Suite in D Minor, HWV 436: 00:23:52 I. Allemande 00:27:25 II. Allegro 00:28:58 III. Air 00:31:59 IV. Gigue 00:33:52 V. Minuetto Suite in D Minor, HWV 437: 00:38:56 I. Allemande 00:41:21 II. Courante 00:42:46 III. Sarabande con variazione 00:46:24 IV. Gigue Suite in E Minor, HWV 438: 00:47:18 I. Allemande 00:50:12 II. Sarabande 00:54:11 III. Gigue Suite in G Minor, HWV 439: 00:55:59 I. Allemande 01:02:22 II. Courante 01:05:51 III. Gigue Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 440: 01:10:33 I. Allemande 01:12:55 II. Courante 01:14:25 III. Sarabande 01:17:22 IV. Gigue Suite in G Major, HWV 441: 01:18:52 I. Allemande 01:20:57 II. Allegro 01:24:48 III. Courante 01:27:58 IV. Aria 01:29:38 V. Minuetto 01:33:17 VI. Gavotto 01:36:07 VII. Gigue Ciaccona in G Major, HWV 442: 01:38:52 I. Praeludium 01:40:06 II. Ciaccona con variazioni Thanks for watching! Feel free to subscribe and visit our channel for the best classical music from the greatest composers like: Bach, Satie, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Ravel, Debussy, Verdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Brahms, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Thalberg, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Strauss, Handel, Dvorak and many more! We upload complete albums, music for relaxing, working, studying, meditating, concentrating, instrumental music, opera, violin, classical piano music, sonatas and more! #Handel #Classical #Music #Piano #BrilliantClassics #PianoClassics