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PIPEDREAMS #0637 ("Getting a Handel On It")
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PIPEDREAMS Program No. 0637
     (uplink on 9/11/2006)

Getting a Handel On It . . . the German-born English celebrity, George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), knew how to entrance audiences and generate publicity, as his Opus 4 organ concertos proved.

GEORGE FRIDERIC HÄNDEL:  Organ Concerto in g/G, Op. 4, no. 1 -Concerto Amsterdam/ Jaap Schroeder; Daniel Chorzempa (1780 Künckel/Church of Saints Ann and Mary,
Haarlem, Netherlands) PentaTone CD-5186-103 (www.pentatonemusic.com)

HANDEL:  Spiritoso, fr Organ Concerto in B-flat, Opus 4, no. 2; Aria, Rejoice greatly, fr Messiah -Suzie LeBlanc, s; Academie Baroque de Montreal/ Alexander Weimann, director; Alexander Weimann (Helmuth Wolff positiv) ATMA CD-22215 (www.atmaclassique.com)

HANDEL (arr. Fox):  Allegro (mvt. 1), fr Organ Concerto in F Op. 4, no. 4 -Virgil Fox (Aeolian-Skinner/Riverside Church, New York City) RCA CD-61251 (PRMS)

HANDEL:  Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, no. 4 (mvts. 2/4) -Menuhin Festival Orchestra/ Yehudi Menuhin; Simon Preston (1966 Flentrop/Queen Elizabeth Hall, London) EMI Classics 2CD-72676 (PRMS)

HANDEL:  Organ Concerto in g, Op. 4, no. 3 -European Festival Orchestra/ Valentin Reymond; Guy Bovet (1996 St. Martin Organ Works/Collegiate Church, Neuchatel, Switzerland) Neuchatel CD-2002

HANDEL:  Organ Concerto in B-flat, Op. 4, no. 6 -London Philharmonic/Sir Adrian Boult; E. Power Biggs (1747 Parker/St. James Church, Great Packington, Warwickshire, England) CBS/Sony CD-45825 (PRMS)

HANDEL:  Organ Concerto in F, Op. 4, no. 5 -Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra/Joshua Rifkin; Peter Hurford (1976 Blank/Bethlehem Church, Papendrecht, Netherlands) London CD-430569 (PRMS)


Filler - PAULUS:  Organ Concerto No. 1 (Pipedreams CD-1003)

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