Album guide
Handel: Water Music and Royal Fireworks
- Composer
- Handel
- Released
- 2002
- Label
- Telarc
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- Jacques Loussier, Benoît Dunoyer de Segonzac, André Arpino
These are flexible treatments of selected Handel motifs, not strict transcriptions of complete orchestral movements.
Loussier lets the trio reshape the material from within, with displaced beats in the Hornpipe and a Latin turn near the end of the Water Music sequence.
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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
The classical player follows Loussier’s selected Handel movements in album order. Each overture appears once because Loussier divides its Grave and Allegro sections into separate jazz tracks.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Water Music: GraveWater Music, HWV 348: Overture — Grave
- Water Music: Allegro IWater Music, HWV 348: Overture — Allegro
- Water Music: AdagioWater Music, HWV 348: Adagio e staccato
- Water Music: Allegro IIWater Music, HWV 348: Allegro
- Water Music: AndanteWater Music, HWV 348: Andante
- Water Music: BourréeWater Music, HWV 348: Bourrée
- Water Music: Alla DanzaWater Music, HWV 349: Alla Hornpipe
- Water Music: AriaWater Music, HWV 348: Air
- Water Music: TrioWater Music, HWV 350: Minuet and Trio
- Royal Fireworks: GraveMusic for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: Overture — Grave
- Royal Fireworks: Allegro IMusic for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: Overture — Allegro
- Royal Fireworks: SicilianaMusic for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: La Paix — Largo alla siciliana
- Royal Fireworks: Allegro IIMusic for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: La Réjouissance — Allegro
- PassacagliaKeyboard Suite No. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: Passacaglia