Handel at Vauxhall, Volume 1
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Handel at Vauxhall, Volume 1
Kirsty Hopkins (soprano) Eleanor Dennis (soprano) Greg Tassell (tenor) Charles MacDougall (tenor) Daniel Moult (organ) / London Early Opera, Bridget C
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Release Date: Wednesday 4 May 2016
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London Early Opera follow up their debut release (Handel in Italy, Vol. 1) with a treasure trove of music by George Frideric Handel (as well as his contemporaries Thomas Arne and John Hebden) centered on the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens - a carnival of music and entertainments that entertained visitors for nearly 200 years. The booklet notes features images and expert commentaries of the Vauxhall Gardens by author David E. Coke and conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham.
"There's a charming ebb and flow to this hypothetical entertainment: the playful Sinfonia from Acis and Galatea leads straight into a little organ improvisation; then the Organ Concerto in B flat, played sweetly on a little chamber organ by Daniel Moult, leads into Galatea's 'Hush, ye pretty warbling choir'…a perfectly sensible and enjoyable approach to imagining what a typical night at Vauxhall might have sounded like" Gramophone Magazine, May 2016
"an attractive potpourri by Handel and others. These bright, lively accounts of music which we know was heard at Vauxhall include an aria from Acis and Galatea and a fine John Hebden concerto, and to close, the glorious duet As steals the morn from Handel's L'Allegro." The Guardian, 24th April 2016 ****
Tracks:
1. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Sinfonia George Frideric Handel 3.36
2. Organ Improvisation in the style of John Worgan and Handel Daniel Moult 0.59
3. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: I. Sinfonia: A tempo ordinario e staccato George Frideric Handel 0.49
4. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: II. Allegro George Frideric Handel 4.56
5. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: III. Adagio e staccato George Frideric Handel 0.48
6. Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: IV. Allegro ma non presto George Frideric Handel 3.07
7. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Ye verdant plains and woody mountains George Frideric Handel 0.42
8. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Hush, ye pretty warbling choir! George Frideric Handel 5.43
9. Colin and Phoebe: A Pastoral Thomas Arne 3.34
10. Saul, HWV 53: Dead March George Frideric Handel 3.06
11. The Advice George Frideric Handel 2.10
12. The Melancholy Nymph, HWV 228 No. 19 George Frideric Handel 3.35
13. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: I. Adagio John Hebden 1.59
14. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: II. Fuga John Hebden 1.55
15. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: III. Largo John Hebden 1.33
16. Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: IV. Allegro John Hebden 3.33
17. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: As steals the morn upon the night George Frideric Handel
