Bridget Cunningham – Handel: The 8 Great Harpsichord Suites (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bridget Cunningham – Handel: The 8 Great Harpsichord Suites (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:34:06 minutes | 3,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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This important new recording revisits George Frideric Handel’s monumental Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin – subsequently known as the Eight Great Harpsichord Suites as well as his Chaconne in G major and some world première recordings of Handel’s superb arrangements of operatic arias and ouvertures which were specially reworked and ornamented by Handel for the harpsichord.

The album celebrates the 300th anniversary of the first publication of these works on 14 November 1720.

Bridget Cunningham is an international conductor, prizewinning harpsichordist and musicologist who trained at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a Junior Fellowship to work in the Centre for Performance History and coach singers in the baroque style.

Cunningham is also Artistic Director of London Early Opera, with a number of critically acclaimed recordings out on Signum Classics.

Tracklist:

01. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: I. Prelude (01:53)
02. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: II. Allemande (03:20)
03. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: III. Courante (02:54)
04. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: IV. Gigue (03:17)
05. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: I. Adagio (02:16)
06. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: II. Allegro (02:36)
07. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: III. Adagio (01:20)
08. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: IV. Allegro (02:33)
09. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: I. Prelude (00:57)
10. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: II. Allegro (02:37)
11. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: III. Allemande (03:34)
12. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: IV. Courante (02:15)
13. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: V. Air and Variations (08:22)
14. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: VI. Presto (04:28)
15. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: I. Allegro (03:46)
16. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: II. Allemande (02:19)
17. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: III. Courante (02:23)
18. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: IV. Sarabande (03:05)
19. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: V. Gigue (01:44)
20. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: I. Prelude (02:16)
21. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: II. Allemande (04:23)
22. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: III. Courante (02:21)
23. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: IV. Air and Variations, “The Harmonious Blacksmith” (04:49)
24. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: I. Prelude (01:43)
25. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: II. Largo (01:31)
26. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: III. Allegro (02:45)
27. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: IV. Gigue (02:53)
28. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: I. Overture (05:15)
29. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: II. Andante (03:11)
30. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: III. Allegro (02:14)
31. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: IV. Sarabande (02:08)
32. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: V. Gigue (01:24)
33. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: VI. Passacaille (04:14)
34. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: I. Prelude (02:04)
35. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: II. Allegro (02:45)
36. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: III. Allemande (03:58)
37. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: IV. Courante (01:57)
38. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: V. Gigue (02:27)
39. Bridget Cunningham – Muzio Scevola, HWV 13: Ouverture (Arranged for Harpsichord) (04:32)
40. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: IV. ‘Pupile sdegnose’ from Muzio Scevola (04:43)
41. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: V. ‘Come se ti vedrò’ from Muzio Scevola (04:48)
42. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: II. ‘Sventurato godi o core abbandonato’ from Floridante (06:21)
43. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Overtures from Italian Operas, HWV 456: V. Overture to Riccardo Primo (05:10)
44. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: III. ‘Ombra cara’ from Radamisto (06:47)
45. Bridget Cunningham – Chaconne in G Major (Version V), HWV 435 (11:22)

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