Handel: Organ Concertos / Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music

Handel: Organ Concertos / Egarr, of Ancient Music - Harmonia Mundi - HAR 807446SA

Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog No: HAR 807446SA
Format: Super Audio Hybrid CD/DSD CD
Release Date: 2008-02-12
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 11 min.
UPC Code: 093046744663

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Richard Egarr’s very first CD as Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music - a recording of Handel’s 'Concerti Grossi Op. 3' – has won them the coveted Gramophone Award. For their latest project, the prize-winning team turns to Handel’s delightful 'Organ Concertos Op. 4' which Egarr directs from the keyboard, supplying imaginative ornamentation and improvisation in the solo part. The richly annotated and composer-sanctioned Walsh edition served as the basis for this recording, featuring a mid-sized portative organ with a wonderfully sweet, warm tone in what’s known as "early English organ tuning."

BBC Music Magazine
Matthew Halls might be a safer bet, but Egarr is worth hearing: his charisma is infectious and the recorded sound sensational.

The Organ Star Recording
The Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr surpass, in my mind, any performance of these concertos hitherto recorded... Delightful, delicious, debonaire and wholly distracting from modern climes - perfect! More please!

International Record Review
These elegant and characterful performances are simply too good to miss.

BBC Music Magazine
There is a freshness and sense to what (Egarr) does which becomes more apparent with every hearing

Gramophone Magazine
Egarr's playing sparkles with vitality and character. The musicianship of the Academy of Ancient Music is outstanding, and their articulate and dynamically shaded playing is subtle and responsive.

bbc.co.uk - Matthew Shorter
These are highly expressive and persuasive accounts...Egarr really knows how to make a harpsichord bristle, and the forces are at their best in contrapuntal final movements..The Academy's sense of rhythm often brings out an unaccustomed balletic quality, refreshing music grown soggy through repeated use.



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>Handel, George Frideric : Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/1, HWV 289
  • Performer: Richard Egarr (Organ)
  • Running Time: 15 min. 23 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: circa 1735-1736

>Handel, George Frideric : Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4/2, HWV 290
  • Performer: Richard Egarr (Organ)
  • Running Time: 9 min. 7 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1735

>Handel, George Frideric : Organ Concerto in G minor, Op.4/3, HWV 291
  • Performer: Richard Egarr (Organ)
  • Running Time: 9 min. 22 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1735

>Handel, George Frideric : Concertos (6) for Organ, Op. 4
  • Performer: Richard Egarr (Organ)
  • Running Time: 14 min. 25 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1735

>Handel, George Frideric : Concertos (6) for Organ, Op. 4
  • Performer: Richard Egarr (Organ)
  • Running Time: 7 min. 44 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1735

>Handel, George Frideric : Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op.4/6, HWV 294 (originally for harp)
  • Performer: Richard Egarr (Organ)
  • Running Time: 13 min. 25 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Form: Concerto
  • Written: 1736