Artist: Aradia Ensemble

Title: Concerti Grossi Op 6

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2013

Label: Naxos

UPC: 747313235827

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. A Tempo Giusto
2. Allegro
3. Adagio
4. Allegro
5. Allegro
6. Andante Larghetto
7. Allegro
8. Largo - Larghetto Andante E Piano
9. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
10. Larghetto
11. Andante
12. Allegro
13. Polonaise: Andante
14. Allegro, Ma Non Troppo
15. Larghetto Affettuoso
16. Allegro
17. Largo E Piano
18. Allegro

DISC 2:
1. Larghetto E Staccato
2. Allegro
3. Presto
4. Largo
5. Allegro
6. Menuet: Un Poco Larghetto
7. Largo Affettuoso
8. A Tempo Giusto
9. Musette: Larghetto
10. Allegro
11. Allegro
12. Largo
13. Allegro
14. Largo
15. Andante
16. Hornpipe
17. Allemande
18. Grave
19. Andante Allegro
20. Adagio
21. Siciliana: Andante
22. Allegro

DISC 3:
1. Largo
2. Allegro
3. Larghetto
4. Allegro
5. Minuet
6. Gigue
7. Overture - Allegro
8. Air: Lento
9. Allegro
10. Allegro
11. Allegro Moderato
12. Andante Larghetto, E Staccato
13. Allegro - Largo, E Staccato
14. Andante
15. Allegro
16. Largo
17. Allegro
18. Larghetto E Piano
19. Largo
20. Allegro

Handel's Concerti Grossi contain some of the finest orchestral music of the eighteenth century. The Op. 6 collection brims with a wealth of variety, colour, and dance rhythms - Polish and Pastoral dances, courtly and fast ones - and Handel's customary self-borrowings and indeed borrowings from other composers. The combination of full orchestra with a concertino solo group of two violins and cello allows both breadth and intimacy, producing concertos in the fullest sense. On this recording Kevin Mallon incorporates the later oboe parts for Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 6, using them as a model for most of the other concertos. When the oboes are silent, flutes or recorders are added, in line with eighteenth-century practice.