Water Music
Album by George Frideric Handel & English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Water Music is a suite of orchestral movements by George Frideric Handel, composed and first performed in 1717. The work exemplifies Baroque orchestral writing with dance-inspired movements scored for winds, brass and strings for outdoor ceremonial performance on the River Thames, and it reflects Handel's practice of composing large-scale music for court occasions and public entertainment.
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- 1.Water Music Suite Variation No. 1 in F major, HWV 331/14:13
- 2.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: I. Ouverture (Largo - Allegro)3:11
- 3.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: II. Adagio e staccato2:03
- 4.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: III. Allegro2:13
- 5.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: IV. Andante2:18
- 6.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: III. (da capo)2:18
- 7.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: V. Presto3:19
- 8.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: VI. Air3:50
- 9.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: VII. Minuet2:19
- 10.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: VIII. Bourrée / IX. Hornpipe2:20
- 11.Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348: X.3:35
- 12.Water Music Suite Variation No. 2 in F major, HWV 331/24:38
- 13.Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: I.2:51
- 14.Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: II. Rigaudon - III.3:05
- 15.Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: IV. Menuet - V.4:23
- 16.Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: VI. - VII.1:37
- 17.Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: I. Allegro2:01
- 18.Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe4:02
- 19.Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: III. Minuet1:22
- 20.Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: IV. Lentement2:02
- 21.Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: V. Bourrée1:05







