Georg Friedrich Händel: Keyboard Works IV: Piano: Instrumental Album

Here for the first time in a popularly accessible edition are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition including eight 'Great Suites' and 'Fugue In A Minor'. For this new edition the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces 'a Protean Fluidity' (New Grove) worthyof the great composer and more than worthy of any musical library.

This is the Schirmer Edition Vocal Score of George Frideric Handel's Dixit Dominus a work for Soli Mixed Chorus and Piano or Organ accompaniment. This edition has been edited with a Keyboard reduction by William Herrmann.

To mark the Handel Year 2009 Bärenreiter is offering a special set on all Handel’s keyboard music. Up till now all works have been published as individual volumes Keyboard Works I-IV (BA 4221-4224) in the 'Halle Handel Edition'.   These volumes encompass Handel’s output over a long period spanning approx. 1705 to 1750. Volumes I and II include both collections of suites (1720 and 1733) which the composer himself saw to print. These standout in terms of their compositional demands and are a testimony to Handel’s sometimes idiosyncratic treatment of the Baroque form. Volumes III and IV contain all the other individual surviving piecesand miscellaneous suites.   The edition based on the Urtext of the 'Halle Handel Edition' has been edited by the internationally-renowned Handel scholar Terence Best. The music text in each volume which also takes into consideration alternative versions of individual pieces is accompanied by a detailed foreword on the history of the compositions transmission and performance practice.   Urtext based on the 'Halle Handel Edition' Comprehensive edition of Handel’s keyboard works Detailed introductory text with notes on performance practice (German/English) Based on the latest Handel research findings Barenreiter sheet music performing editions present the authentic text and the latest findings of scholarly research enabling players to get as close to the composer's intentions as the surviving sources will allow. There are no arbitrary editorial editions and the quality of the musical text matched by an appearance on the page that satisfies the most discerning eye. Comprehensive edition of Handel's Keyboard works. Detailed introductory text with notes on performance practice (German/English) Based on the latest Handel research findings. 'By using one of Barenreiter's scores I feel confident that I have an edition that has been meticulously prepared to the highest standards and with the latest research. It feels good to have a Barenreiter score in your hand. For many

For the occasion of the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline which took place in Westminster Abbey on October 11 1727 Handel wrote four splendid anthems and personally supervised their performance which was according to all reports one of great magnificence. The four anthems were enthusiastically received and one or more of them has been performed at every British coronation since 1727. Anthem No. 2 ('The King Shall Rejoice') although less well-known than Anthem No. 1 is an equally splendid example of Handel's ceremonial style - what Burney has affectionately termed his 'big bow-bow manner'. This work contains an opening Allegro brilliant and elegantrather than pompous; a grandiose setting of 'Glory and great worship hast thou laid upon him'; and a lively fugal Alleluia as a conclusion.For six-part chorus of mixed voices with organ or piano accompaniment. Edited and with keyboard reduction by William Herrman.

This volume contains some attractive yet almost totally unfamiliar keyboard pieces by Handel five of them here published for the first time. Seven are original keyboard compositions three are arrangements by the composer himself of opera arias and the 'Folio' is completed by a movement which occurs in orchestral form in Handel's first opera Almira and by the famous Air from the Water Music. Edited by Terence Best.

Handel?s three anthems (My song shall be alway HWV 252 O come let us sing HWV 253 O praise the Lord HWV 254) were composed in 1717 and 1718 for Cannons a country estate near to London. They take their nickname the ? Chandos Anthems? from the owner of the estate the First Duke of Chandos .The three pieces are noteworthy for their festive character and their varied orchestral accompaniment. Handel borrows older material from his Italian period and his earlier works for the Chapel Royal in London a standard procedure for this composer who reused particularly successful pieces as starting points for his later works. The scoring for solo voices chorus oboe strings and continuo was tailored to the musical resources of the small country estate. Two additional recorders are needed for ?O come let us sing unto the Lord?.The anthems present the Urtext from the ?Halle Handel Edition? and include uncomplicated and easy-to-play piano reductions. In addition to the original English words the full scores and vocal scores also include a singing translation in German.?The clarity found in these Bärenreiter scores and the excellent keyboard reductions make them very attractive for performers.?(Church Music Quarterly Sept. 2008)

The conductor and Keyboard player Christopher Hogwood has edited the new edition of Music For The Royal Fireworks. The edition is the result of thorough revision and correction based on the source material. During this process some incorrect notes were corrected and in particular the Viola part was revised. Misunderstood instructions from Handel relating to the colla parte coupling of the Viola with the second Oboe as in the overture or with the bass parts have been reassessed. Doubling with other parts resulted in passages which were too high or too low: these have now been rectified and a part suited to the range of the viola has been madepossible.- New critical edition based on new sources.- Detailed Prefaces (Ger/Eng).- Urtext of the â??Halle Handel Editionâ?.- Full score performance material (BA4299) and study score (TP373) available for sale.

G. F. Handel (1685-1759) was a German-born British composer and organist who spent his life working in London. In addition to his well-known large-scale works like the Water Music and Music for the RoyalFireworks he wrote nearly 200 smaller works for keyboard instruments. The Harmonious Blacksmith is a popular name given to the final movement of Handel's Suite No. 5 in E major forHarpsichord more properly known as Air and Variations (HWV 430). The work was published in 17620 but the name was added at some point in the 19th century some 75 years after the composer’s death.