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Girolamo Frescobaldi composed this now famous melody in the 1600s . For 300 years, it has appeared on literally thousands of programs for solo instruments as well as almost every conceivable ensemble....

Girolamo Frescobaldi composed this now famous melody in the 1600s . For 300 years, it has appeared on literally thousands of programs for solo instruments as well as almost every conceivable ensemble....

Handel's Concerto in F major (HWV 331) was long considered a variant of two movements from the three suites of his 'Water Music' (HWV 348-350). Recently our understanding of the 'Water Music' had to b...

Handel's Concerto in F major (HWV 331) was long considered a variant of two movements from the three suites of his 'Water Music' (HWV 348-350). Recently our understanding of the 'Water Music' had to b...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie I, Band 9.2 Besetzung: Sopran solo (3), Alt solo (3), Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor: SATTB, 1. Flauti (Piccolo-Flöte, 1. Blockflöte, Flöte) 2. Flauti (Piccolo-...

The Serenata in tre parti Parnasso in festa was first performed on the occasion of the wedding between Princess Anne and Prince William IV of Orange in March 1734. The music is largely based on the En...

'Giulio Cesare in Egitto' is by far Handel's most frequently performed opera owing its success not least to its subject matter, one of the best known love stories in world history. Already during Hand...

With his 'La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno' ('Beauty Reformed in the Triumph of Time and Enlightenment'), HWV 46a, the 22-year-old Handel notched up one of his greatest suc...

In the autograph, the 'little Cecilia Ode', composed in September 1739, is superscribed with 'Song'; the title used in contemporary sources, such as the textual source by John Dryden, and taken over b...

In the almost six months from 14 August 1736 to 27 January 1737, George Frideric Handel had achieved unprecedented productivity in his operatic oeuvre with the composition of three operas. In addition...

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

The critical edition presents the music to the verse comedy 'Soliman second, ou Les Trois Sultanes' by Charles-Simon Favart (1710-1792), which was performed before the Viennese courtly audience in the...

Experience a radiant masterpiece of Baroque vocal music: Heinrich Schütz's "Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi" (SWV 435) is widely regarded as one of the most expressive and festive Christmas works in...

Rameau's only surviving opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has survived in two versions (1745 and 1746), whereby the 1745 version was long considered lost. Volume IV.12 of the "Opera omnia Rameau"...

> Instrumental numbers in order of performance, but also grouped by key in the list of contents, enabling them to be combined freely into orchestral suites > Based on the first scholarly-critical edit...

The new critical edition of the score has finally shed light on the complex history of its transmission: at its first performance on August 23, 1735, Rameau's "ballet héroïque" Les Indes galantes stil...