Water Music

Album by George Frideric Handel & Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Sir Alexander Gibson

The Water Music is a collection of orchestral suites by George Frideric Handel, composed and first performed in 1717. Stylistically a work of the Baroque period, it comprises dance-based movements scored for winds and strings intended for outdoor performance on the River Thames for royal entertainment, and it exemplifies Handel's ceremonial orchestral writing within the early 18th-century British court context.
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  1. 1.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: I. Overture. Largo - Allegro
    3:24
  2. 2.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: II. Adagio e Staccato
    2:02
  3. 3.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: III. Allegro - Andante - Allegro
    6:59
  4. 4.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: IV. Passepied
    3:17
  5. 5.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: V. Air
    3:09
  6. 6.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: VI. Menuet
    3:04
  7. 7.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: VII. Bourrée
    2:00
  8. 8.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: VIII. Hornpipe
    2:22
  9. 9.
    Water Music Suite no. 1: IX. Allegro
    2:47
  10. 10.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: I. Overture
    1:55
  11. 11.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: II. Alla Hornpipe
    2:55
  12. 12.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: III. Sarabande
    2:38
  13. 13.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: IV. Rigaudon
    2:30
  14. 14.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: V. Lentement
    1:25
  15. 15.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: VI. Bourrée
    1:09
  16. 16.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: VII. Menuet
    1:02
  17. 17.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: VIII. Andante
    2:03
  18. 18.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: IX. Gigue 1 - Gigue 2 - Gigue 1
    1:17
  19. 19.
    Water Music Suite no. 2 and Suite no. 3 in D/G: X. Menuet - Coro
    1:11

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