Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas
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- Good job but a little feeble
In the first place, on the whole, the rendition of the harpsicord (cembalo) is weak and the recording too much resonat and blurred, also too much on the background. The problem here is not the lack of the cello but the work of cembalo (harpsicord). Even the violin in the slow pieces give a rendition feeble, devoid of strenght and intensity, and also in the fast piece is a little strange; but on the other hand it's a considered and refined choice that could be appreciable. However the Manze sound, ... Read More
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- Handel: Complete Violin Sonatas
This is a magnificent recording. I would say that this is probably the best recording ever of the Handel sonatas.
Rating: - Recommended - With Reservations
Handel's five authenticated violin sonatas are gems of the high baroque violin repertoire; why they have not been more widely recorded is hard to understand.Leave it to baroque violin superstar Andrew Manze to put a complete version before the public.Manze plays the opening slow movements in a rhapsodic, dreamy manner, like improvisations, and lends his accustomed humor and audacity to the fast movements.It is enlightening to learn that the opening of the D major sonata is marked AFFETTUOSO, ... Read More
Rating: - Another Handle on Handel
Alongside the Handel of the oratorios and operas -- the Handel of what George Orwell called the Big Bow Wow -- there was also the composer of "pure" music. The violin sonatas are among the finest of Handel's chamber compositions, elegant, concise, and full of affect.
There are at least three performances of these sonatas available on CD at this time, a bonanza of musical choice. In addition to this performance by Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr, there's another by Hiro Kurosaki and Bill Christie, ... Read More
Rating: - Simply astounding
It is not without a sense of awe that I write these words.I believe Mr. Handel himself, had he been alive to hear this recording, would have been thoroughly delighted and not perhaps devoid of a tear or two.
The grace and elegance with which these endearing sonatas are played is simply astounding.Both Manze and Egarr ought to be given knighthoods for this CD.It just has no peers.I find this supremely enjoyable CD to be an absolutely essential part of any serious baroque music fan's ... Read More
- Good job but a little feebleIn the first place, on the whole, the rendition of the harpsicord (cembalo) is weak and the recording too much resonat and blurred, also too much on the background. The problem here is not the lack of the cello but the work of cembalo (harpsicord). Even the violin in the slow pieces give a rendition feeble, devoid of strenght and intensity, and also in the fast piece is a little strange; but on the other hand it's a considered and refined choice that could be appreciable. However the Manze sound, ... Read More
- Handel: Complete Violin SonatasThis is a magnificent recording. I would say that this is probably the best recording ever of the Handel sonatas.
- Recommended - With ReservationsHandel's five authenticated violin sonatas are gems of the high baroque violin repertoire; why they have not been more widely recorded is hard to understand.Leave it to baroque violin superstar Andrew Manze to put a complete version before the public.Manze plays the opening slow movements in a rhapsodic, dreamy manner, like improvisations, and lends his accustomed humor and audacity to the fast movements.It is enlightening to learn that the opening of the D major sonata is marked AFFETTUOSO, ... Read More
- Another Handle on HandelAlongside the Handel of the oratorios and operas -- the Handel of what George Orwell called the Big Bow Wow -- there was also the composer of "pure" music. The violin sonatas are among the finest of Handel's chamber compositions, elegant, concise, and full of affect.
There are at least three performances of these sonatas available on CD at this time, a bonanza of musical choice. In addition to this performance by Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr, there's another by Hiro Kurosaki and Bill Christie, ... Read More
- Simply astoundingIt is not without a sense of awe that I write these words.I believe Mr. Handel himself, had he been alive to hear this recording, would have been thoroughly delighted and not perhaps devoid of a tear or two.
The grace and elegance with which these endearing sonatas are played is simply astounding.Both Manze and Egarr ought to be given knighthoods for this CD.It just has no peers.I find this supremely enjoyable CD to be an absolutely essential part of any serious baroque music fan's ... Read More
