Handel - "Water Music" Suite in D/G Major HWV349/350 (4)

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)

Orchestral suite for flute, two oboes, bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, strings and basso continuo in D/G major HWV349/350 "Water Music"

[9.] [Country Dance I & II]

[10.] [Trumpet Menuet]

*The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often considered as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered in the summer of 1717 (July 17, 1717) when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed by 50 musicians playing on a barge close to the royal barge from which the King listened with some close friends (including the Duchess of of Bolton, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Countess of Godolphin, Madam Kilmarnock, and the Earl of Orkney). George I was said to have loved it so much that he ordered the exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.

The music in each of the suites has no set order today. When the suite was played for the King, slow, often soft music was played when the King's boat and the orchestra's boat were close together, while louder, brisk passages were played when the boats drifted apart.

This performance follows Samuel Arnold's first edition of the complete score in 1788 and the manuscript copies dating from Handel's lifetime. Therefore, the Suite in D and the Suite in G are mixed together.

Performed by The King's Consort
Conducted by Robert King

Category:

Music

Tags:

• vivaldi
• bach
• handel
• mozart
• messiah
• piano
• harpsichord
• royal
• fireworks
• zadok
• priest
• classical
• pachelbel
• canon
• baroque

[waeman]

Are you sure this is Water Music Suite ??

I have the complete CD and it does not include this music at all !!

[HARMONICO101]

This is the D/G Major suite of the water music.

[artpieful]

What a beautiful performance.

Viva il caro sassone!

[musicalqueen100]

@waeman

perhaps you know this suite as "Country Dance"!? It´s definitly a part of the water music suite! :)

[owyowy57]

@sosome57 Try Venezia...

[sosome57]

What is the painting of and who whose bursh strokes are those? Beautiful on both counts. This is so Pirates of the Caribbean. I wonder what inspired it.

[GoFeri]

@waeman It is included on the Handel's Orchestral Works cd set by the English Concert.

[omotekun]

I know only his name is Handel. This channel aware of Handel is great. Thank you so much.

[wayo002]

Something interesting. The illustration shown, which is by the artist Canaletto, is actually from the Angel Recording. In the Angel version, Water Music is played by the Bath Festival Orch., conducted by Yehudi Menuhin. Excellent selection (the "Country Dance") and excellent recording. Many thanks.

[beethomozart]

fantastic work from one of the greatest Georg Friederich Handel, my third favorite composer after Beethoven and Mozart, the king of baroque, his colorful music paints heaven and beyond. just listen to his Royal fireworks music and then you have his operas , his concerti grosii, his organ music, etc...