Artist: Handel / Smith / Perkins,Julian

Title: Overture to Riccardo Primo - Six Lessons Op. 3

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2015

Label: Chandos

UPC: 095115080726

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. Overture
2. Allegro
3. Larghetto
4. Vivace
5. Andante Allegro
6. Allegro
7. Allegro
8. Andante Allegro
9. Allemande
10. Allegro
11. Andante
12. Allegro
13. Tempo Di Gavotte
14. Vivace
15. Allegro
16. Allegro
17. Minuetto and Five Variations
18. Cappricio
19. Allegro
20. Andante Gustoso
21. Gigue

Acclaimed harpsichordist and early music specialist Julian Perkins here presents the premiere recording of Six Suites, op. 3, by Handel's assistant, John Christopher Smith. This project seeks to reappraise Smith the composer, whose music bubbles over with brilliance, wit and charm. In his pieces, athletic hand crossings, unpredictable figurations, sudden major to minor key shifts and sequences built over repeated left-hand chords vie with one another to create music both technically demanding and theatrical. An arrangement by Handel of his Riccardo Primo overture also features.