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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 .
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.
Handel's Water Music, although it was composed more than thirty years earlier, is often paired with the Music for the Royal Fireworks as both were written for outdoor performance. Older recordings tend to use arrangements of Handel's score for the modern orchestra, for example, the arrangements by Hamilton Harty (1923) and Leopold Stokowski.
Water Music is a 1717 composition by George Frideric Handel. Water Music may also refer to: Water Music (Telemann) (Hamburger Ebb und Fluth), a a1723 orchestral suite by Georg Philipp Telemann; Water Music, a 1952 performance piece by John Cage; Water Music, a 1982 novel by T. C. Boyle; Water Music, a 2003 photography book by Marjorie Ryerson
"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 ...
The film was shot for free at the Earl of Oxford and Asquith's house (for Brook Street, London), Chatsworth House for a banquet scene, Drumlanrig Castle for a grand house visited by the boy Handel, as well as other homes of English aristocracy. Palmer commented that "I had a million dollars worth of locations, and all for 3/6d".