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Handel greatest hits
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Publication
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- London, England : Decca Records, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (77 minutes)
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn950016519
- Credits
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- Various performers
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 21, 2016).
- Vocal works sung primarily in English ; track 16 sung in Italian.
- The arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon (Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) -- Selections from Water music suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348. Allegro, Andante, Allegro ; Menuet ; Air ; Menuet ; Bourrée ; Hornpipe ; Andante (English Concert ; Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, director) -- Selections from Water music, Suites II & III in D/G, HWV 349/350. Allegro ; Alla hornpipe ; Menuet ; Andante ; Country dance I/II (English Concert ; Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, director) -- Larghetto affettuoso (excerpt) from Concerto grosso in A minor, op. 6, no. 4 (Trevor Connah, violin ; Kenneth Heath, violoncello ; Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, violin, conductor) -- Let the bright seraphim from Samson (Joan Sutherland, soprano ; Harry Dilley, trumpet ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor) -- Ombra mai fù from Serse (Anthony Way, treble ; Daniel Phillips, organ ; English Sinfonia ; Neil Page, conductor) -- Selections from Music for the royal fireworks, Suite HWV 351. Overture ; Bourrée ; La réjouissance ; Menuet I-II (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Bernard Haitink, conductor) -- See, the conqu'ring hero comes! from Judas Maccabaeus (John Scott, organ ; Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral ; Christopher Dearnley, director) -- Air & variations "The harmonious blacksmith" from Harpsichord suite no. 5 in E, HWV 430 (Philips Jones Brass Ensemble) -- Hallelujah chorus from Messiah (London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor)