Keyboard Works for Solo Instruments

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759): Obras para teclado.

The music historian Sir John Hawkins recorded that his friend Handel's keyboard improvisations "stole on the ear in a slow and solemn progression; the harmony close wrought, and as full as could possibly be expressed; the passages concatenated with stupendous art, the whole at the same tinfe being perfectly intelligible, and carrying the appearance of great simplicity." Such fecund spontaneity generated the few published pieces Handel wrote specifically for the keyboard. The first set of suites appeared in 1720, perhaps composed and published of the instruction of Princess Anne, to whom Handel served as music master. Other collections of harpsichord and clavichord work followed; all seem to have been preserved from Handel's freely inventive keyboard sessions. Here, for the first time in a popularly accessible edition, are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments, reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Händelgesellschaft edition, still the the most complete.
For this new edition, the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces "a Protean fluidity" (New Grove) worthy of the great composer, and more than worthy of any musical library.

Unabridged Dover (1982) republication of all the music in Volume II, "Klavierstücke von Georg Friedrich Händel" (1859), of the set Georg Friedrich Händel's Werke, Deutsche Händelgesellschaft, Leipzig.

CONTENIDO:

Suite in A Major (HG II/i/1)
Fugue in A Minor (G 17) (HG II/iv/5)
Prelude (G I8) and Lesson (G I9) in A Minor (HG II/iii/6)
Fugue in B Minor (G 27) (HG II/iv/4)
Suite in B-flat Major (HG II/ii/7)
Suite in B-flat Major (HG II/ii/1)
Fugue in B-flat Major (G 37) (HG II/iv/3)
Sonatina in B-flat Major (G 40) (HG lI/iii/10)
Sonata in C Major (HG II/iii/12)
Sonata in C Major (G 59) (HG lI/iii/11)
Fantasia in C Major (G 60) (HG ll/iii/4)
Fugue in C Minor (G 83) (HG ll/iv/6)
Suite in D Minor (HG II/iii/4)
Suite in 0 Minor (HG II/i/3)
Suite in 0 Minor (HG I1/ii/3)
Suite in D Minor (HG II/iii/1)
Suite in E Major (HG II/i/5)
Suite in E Minor (HG II/ii/5)
Suite in E Minor (HG II!i/4)
Suite/Sonata in F Major (HG II/i/2)
Capriccio in F Major (G 183) (HG II/iii/8)
Chaconne in F Major (G 184) (HG II/iii/5)
Suite in F Minor (HG lI/i/8)
Suite in F-sharp Minor (HG II/i/6)
Suite (Partita) in G Major (HG II/ii/8)
Chaconne (with 62 variations) in G Major
Chaconne (with 21 variations) in G Major
Fugue in G Major (G 231) (HG II/iv/2)
Minuet in G Minor (G 242) (part of HG II/ii/1)
Suite in G Minor (HG II/ii/6)
Suite in G Minor (HG II/i/7)
Suite in G Minor (HG II/iii/2)
Fugue in G Minor (G 264) (HG II/iv/1)
Prelude (G 26S) and Sonata (Allegro)
Capriccio in G Minor (G 270) (HG II/ii/3)