Title: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 and Op. 6 Composer: HANDEL
Musicians: Christopher Hogwood
Handel and Haydn Society
Catalogue # AV2065 (3 CDs)
Price: £25.00 (3 CDs for the price of 2) + free postage
SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................................................... As America’s oldest professional musical organisation, the Boston, Massachusetts-based Handel and Haydn Society, founded in 1815, boasts a venerable history that includes the Stateside premieres of Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass, and Haydn’s Creation. Their modern-day legacy was sealed by a path-breaking series of recordings with former Music Director Christopher Hogwood. Together with the release of Haydn Arias and Cantatas with the late, legendary soprano Arleen Auger (AV 2066), this re-issue of Handel’s Concerti Grossi mines the best of the Handel & Haydn Society’s back catalogue, making them available again to a public where there is clearly still considerable demand. Op. 3 and Op. 6, performed on period instruments, are newly compiled and released together for the first time on this 3 CD set.
TRACK LISTING .................................................................................................................................................................................... George Frideric HANDEL (1685 - 1759)
CD 1
6 Concerti Grossi, Op.3
1. - 3. Concerto No..1 in B flat (8:00)
4. - 8. Concerto No. 2 in B flat (11:49)
9. - 12. Concerto No. 3 in G (7:24)
13. - 16. Concerto No. 4 in F (12:55)
17. - 21. Concerto No. 5 in D minor (9:26)
22. - 24. Concerto No. 6 in D (6:46)
Appendix: organ concerto movement, pub. by Walsh as 2d mvt of Op. 3, No. 6
25. Allegro (3:27)
12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
26. - 30. Concerto No. 1 in G (11:50)
Total time CD 1: 72:34
CD 2
1. - 4. Concerto No. 2 in F (11:11)
5. - 9. Concerto No. 3 in E minor (11:38)
10. - 13. Concerto No. 4 in A minor (9:52)
14. - 19. Concerto No. 5 in D (14:20)
20. - 24. Concerto No. 6 in G minor (14:49)
25. - 29. Concerto No. 7 in B flat (13:28)
Total time CD 2: 76:12
CD 3
1. - 6. Concerto No. 8 in C minor (13:34)
7. - 12. Concerto No. 9 in F (13:47)
13. - 17. Concerto No. 10 in D minor (13:19)
18. - 22. Concerto No. 11 in A (16:40)
23. - 27. Concerto No. 12 in B minor (11:14)
Total time CD 3: 69:14
Recorded March 1988 (Op. 3), March 1991 (Op. 6, Nos. 1 - 6) and May 1992 (Op. 6, Nos. 7 - 12),
Methuen Memorial Hall, Boston, Massachuesetts
Producers: Peter Wadland (Op. 3) and Michael Haas (Op. 6)
Balance Engineers: John Dunkerley (Op. 6 with Jonathan Stokes)
Tape Engineers: Deborah Rogers (Op. 3) and Sally Drew (Op. 6)
