Handel - Water Music Suite "Air" and "Hornpipe" video free download
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Duration: 07:06
Uploaded: 2010/10/24
The Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often considered three suites, composed by George Frideric Handel. It premiered on 17 July 1717 after King George I had requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed by 50 musicians playing on a barge near the royal barge from which the King listened with close friends, including the Duchess of Bolton, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Countess of Godolphin, Madam Kilmarnock, and the Earl of Orkney. George I was said to have enjoyed the suites so much that he bade the exhausted musicians play them three times over the course of the outing. Source: Wikipedia
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9 years ago
Cornel Browne
Someone please help, What key is this piece or the entire parts of the suite is played in-------------BEAUTIFUL AND HEAVENLY MUSICcornel9 years ago
Tatjana Glušac
... ko bi rekao...... "poželjeh" Handel-a... pa igrom slučaja naletih i na podatak da je premijera Watermusic-a bila 17.7.1717 (na rijeci Thames-i, jer je Kralj tako "zatražio"...)... hmmm?... danas je 17.7.... k'o neki rođendan! ..... slučaj ili?...10 years ago
T Green
Peter! It looks like the style of Canaletto and to my mind could be one of his paintings. 10 years ago
Peter Whelan
Great painting too - do you know who its by?10 years ago
Ann Mason
Found it, No longer for sale on Amazon, but the have links to people who do have it.10 years ago
Ann Mason
I would love to find this recording for the suite, I'm getting married in the fall and would love to use the "air" as my Processional, and the Hornpipe for the recessional, since the wedding is going to be on a Galleon, I think it would be a nice choice.12 years ago
David Reynolds
This feels, to me, to be most like the way it was probably performed in Haendel's time, lightly, elegantly, and with a sense of forward motion. I have often heard it played much more slowly, plodding like some mediocrely played late Romantic piece. Very lovely.12 years ago
SHUGHES1986
@beaka63 Tafelmusik Baroque from Toronto, Canada. They recorded the Water Music Suite a few years ago, I believe at the time, it was released by Sony Classical12 years ago
beaka63
Hi there! This is my preferred version of the Air, the more upbeat, fun version...which I simply cannot find anywhere. Can you please tell me where you found this version? I would like it to be part of my collection. Thank you so very much!Related Videos
