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This set of sound files is the entire Water Music Suite in D Major by George Frideric Handel. It is a good quality set, and it also has one very famous movement, II. Alla Hornpipe. This sound file appears in Water Music (Handel). Nominate and support. X clamation point 04:06, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Please give the details of the recording.
George Frideric Handel's Water Music: 16. Sarabande (Suite No. 3 in G, HWV 350: I. Sarabande) performed by the Marine Chamber Orchestra of the United States Marine Band on January 29, 2017 in the Schlesinger Concert Hall, Alexandria, VA. Conducted by Major Michelle Rakers. Composition date: 17 July 1717: Performance date: 29 January 2017: Source
The Water Music (German: Wassermusik) is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717, in response to King George I 's request for a concert on the River Thames .
"The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" is one of two instrumental movements [1] in Solomon, an oratorio by George Frideric Handel written in May and June 1748 and premiered on 17 March 1749. Scored for two oboes, strings and continuo, [ 2 ] it is the sinfonia which opens Act III, the only act in which Sheba appears, [ 3 ] and it depicts the ...
Stephen Anthony Simon (May 3, 1937 – January 20, 2013) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger. He was a noted proponent of the music of George Frederic Handel, serving as music director of the Handel Society of New York and recording several of Handel's operas and oratorios for the RCA label.
The prelude did not appear in the first edition published by John Walsh [2] and was taken from Handel's keyboard suite HWV 428. HWV 561 is another version of the prelude. [citation needed] 2 Allemande: 108 ii, 81 iv/5, 29 3 Courante: 109 ii, 82 iv/5, 30 4 Sarabande: 110 ii, 82 iv/5, 31
Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) is a "magic" opera in three acts, with music by George Frideric Handel. [1] It was the fifth Italian opera that Handel wrote for an English theatre and the second he wrote for Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington in 1715.
George Frideric Handel. Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay.The work has been variously described as a serenata, a masque, a pastoral or pastoral opera, a "little opera" (in a letter by the composer while it was being written), an entertainment and by the New Grove Dictionary of Music as an oratorio.