Kevin Mallon, Aradia Ensemble - George Frideric Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks (2006)
Kevin Mallon, Aradia Ensemble - George Frideric Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 70:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557764 | Recorded: 2005
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 70:52 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557764 | Recorded: 2005
Kevin Mallon leads a Toronto-based, 34-person group of period instrumentalists called the Aradia Ensemble on this new, bargain issue, and it's a terrific, ear-opening show. The music is, above all, joyful, with dance movements galore and plenty of giddy pomp. Mallon has rethought the tempos, almost all of which, he feels, should be quicker than we're accustomed to hearing. If you listen to the Air, the fourth movement to Suite No. 1, you'll be surprised at how good it sounds played without the usual serious "aura" that drags it down. Mallon writes in the accompanying notes that he looked at an 18th-century score for the piece and discovered it was marked "presto".
These quick tempos work most of the time, and if, for example, you overlook the fact that the alla hornpipe of the Water Music Suite No. 2 and the Rigaudon of No. 3 could only have been danced by a dancer on speed, and just listen to how effortlessly entertaining the music is, you'll love it. Mallon is not rigid in his fleetness, however: the final movement of Suite No. 1 is relaxed, and he slows it down even further for its last few seconds, giving it the stature it requires.
Mallon also adds side-drum and tambourines to a couple of the movements, and they add jollity and jauntiness; only a whiner would object. There's a thin line in this music between too ostentatious and too mild, and by keeping his forces slim and his tempos original and suited to the music, he avoids being either. When the trumpets and horns ring out they don't blare, and in La Paix from the Royal Fireworks Music, when Mallon uses transverse flutes (as suggested in the original manuscript), the effect is magical rather than just mellow. Listen to the overture of the Royal Fireworks, brass blasting, drums being banged with wooden-headed sticks, all at a military tempo that implies forward propulsion rather than combative stodginess.–Robert Levine
Performer:
Aradia Ensemble
Kevin Mallon, conductor
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348
01. No. 1. Overture. No. 2. Adagio e staccato
02. No. 3. Andante. No. 4. Andante
03. No. 5
04. No. 6. Air
05. No. 7. Minuet
06. No. 8. Bourrée
07. No. 9. Hornpipe
08. No. 10
Water Music Suite No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349
09. No. 11
10. No. 12. Alla Hornpipe
11. No. 13. Minuet
12. No. 14. Lentement
13. No. 15. Bourrée
Water Music Suite No.3 for orchestra in G major, HWV 350
14. No. 16
15. No. 17. Rigaudon. No. 18
16. No. 19. Menuet. No. 20
17. No. 21. No. 22
Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351
18. Ouverture
19. Bourrée
20. La Paix
21. La Réjouissance
22. Menuets I and II
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Kevin Mallon, Aradia Ensemble - George Frideric Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks (2006)
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