Handel

Žak Ozmo, L’Avventura London - Handel in the Playhouse (2009)

Žak Ozmo, L’Avventura London - Handel in the Playhouse (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 294 Mb | Total time: 52:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Label: Opella Nova Records | ONCD014 | Recorded: 2009

London-based early music group L'Avventura announces the launch of their debut CD, a unique collection of previously unrecorded music by Handel. Fighting the deluge of re-recordings and re-issued CDs in this Handel anniversary year, Opella Nova Records is pleased to present a new group with a completely different take on the venerated composer. The playful, eminently-listenable Handel in the Playhouse is the debut album of new early music ensemble L'Avventura London, directed by Zak Ozmo, and is based on new musicological research. Consisting mainly of previously unheard English playhouse music composed by Handel, the recording is perfectly timed to coincide with the anniversary of the composer's death.
David Willcocks - George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro ed il Penseroso; Ode for St Cecilias Day (1999)

David Willcocks - George Frideric Handel: L'Allegro ed il Penseroso; Ode for St Cecilias Day (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 760 Mb | Total time: 73:51+76:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | # 460 287-2 | Recorded: 1960, 1967

'L'Allegro il penseroso ed il moderato' brings together Sir David Willcocks, some fluent chamber players and the illustrious tenor Peter Pears - not the most orthodox of Handel interpreters in an era of so-called authentic performance, but here appropriately sonorous. The greater feast, however, is the 'Ode for St Cecelia', whose spiritual patronage of the sonic arts first really took off in the seventeenth century and has not looked back since. April Cantelo and Choir of King's College Cambridge offer an inspired and inspiring account of a rich, celebratory and gorgeously double-rhythmed delight.
Ferdinand Leitner, Cappella Coloniensis - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2015)

Ferdinand Leitner, Cappella Coloniensis - George Frideric Handel: Tamerlano (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 679 Mb | Total time: 79:59+65:16 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Profil Medien | # PH11029 | Recorded: 1966

Conductor Ferdinand Leitner (1912-96), learning his trade from masters like Walter, Busch, Richter and Karl Muck (as rehearsal pianist at Bayreuth), gained the experience that lead to his being dubbed the "singers' conductor" by all who worked with him during a long and lustrous career marked by his tenure as Zurich Opera music director (1969-84) and some 300 commercial recordings. The 1970s-80s Bayreuth stalwart, bass-baritone Franz Mazura as Tamerlano and famed American lyric soprano Helen Donath as Asteria headline this 1966 Leitner-led performance of Handel’s Tamerlano.
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4 & Op.7 (1996)

George Malcolm, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields - George Frideric Handel: Organ Concertos Op.4 & Op.7 (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 692 Mb | Total time: 147:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 452 235-2 | Recorded: 1972, 1973

The combination of Neville Marriner and his always sterling evocation of excellence from the Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields offers the perfect accompaniment and support for Malcolm's playing. The late George Malcolm was a brilliantly gifted organist even though his real specialty had always been harpsichord. He always seems to find the lightest most delightful playing to fit the idea of the piece.

Richard Egarr - Handel: 8 'Great' Suites (2014)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Aug. 30, 2022
Richard Egarr - Handel: 8 'Great' Suites (2014)

Richard Egarr - Handel: 8 'Great' Suites (2014)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:58:12 | 810 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | Catalog: HMU 907581

“[These suites] have rarely been recorded or promoted by harpsichordists during the most recent revival of interest in ‘early music.’” I realize that Richard Egarr is entitled to his own opinions—his liner notes on an earlier release, for example, likened the humor in Purcell’s harpsichord music to that of the wonderful old 1950s BBC comedy The Goon Show —but he’s not entitled to his own facts. Christopher Brodersen pointed out in a 2011 review of these works featuring Laurence Cummings ( Fanfare 34:5) that ArkivMusic listed nine complete sets played on the harpsichord, with several others on the piano. I find some of the suites have considerably more recordings than that, in 2014: 26 for the Suite in A Major, 28 for the Suite in D Minor, 25 for the Suite in E Minor, 47 for the Suite in E Major. If such numbers reflect rare recordings, I have to wonder what Egarr would consider a moderate number, let alone a frequent one.
VA - Handel: Sarabande, Hallelujah and Other Masterpieces (2024)

VA - Handel: Sarabande, Hallelujah and Other Masterpieces (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 774 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 388 MB
2:47:58 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Most music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own time, are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan".
Trevor Pinnock - Handel: Complete Orchestral Recordings (2013) (11 CDs Box Set)

Trevor Pinnock - Handel: Complete Orchestral Recordings (2013) (11 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | 11 CDs, 11:33:55 min | Covers included | 3,22 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Archiv Produktion

All of Trevor Pinnocks unmissable Handel orchestral recordings with the English Concert on period instruments, collected for the first time in a single release: Classic recordings of Op. 3 and Op. 6; A must-have for anyone remotely interested in Handel.

Handel - Rodelinda (2021)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by v3122 at April 13, 2022
Handel - Rodelinda (2021)

Handel - Rodelinda (2021)
FLAC (Tracks) 24-bit/96 & 192 kHz | Official Digital Download | Time: 03:19:35
Classical | Linn Records | Artwork: 13 Mb | ~ 3.90 or 7.64 Gb

~ Lucy Crowe, Iestyn Davies, Joshua Ellicott, Brandon Cedel, Jess Dandy, Tim Mead, The English Concert, Harry Bicket - Handel: Rodelinda ~
I Solisti Italiani: Handel - Concerti Grossi Op. 6, Nos. 1, 2, 6, 7, 10 (1989) [2010, Japan HQCD, COCQ-84756]

I Solisti Italiani: Händel - Concerti Grossi Op. 6, Nos. 1, 2, 6, 7, 10 (1989)
Classical | EAC Rip | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
2010 | Columbia, COCQ-84756 | ~ 434 or 184 Mb | Scans

I Solisti Italiani is a chamber string orchestra consisting of about 12 players, known particularly for their spirited readings of works from the Baroque and Classical periods. They have performed and recorded much Vivaldi over the years and have devoted nearly as much effort to the works of Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Rossini…
London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham - Handel at Vauxhall, Vol.1 (2016) [Re-Up]

London Early Opera, Bridget Cunningham - Handel at Vauxhall, Vol.1 (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 231 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 114 Mb | Artwork included
Classical, Baroque, Vocal | Label: Signum | # SIGCD428 | Time: 00:48:16

London Early Opera follow up their debut release (Handel in Italy, Vol. 1) with a treasure trove of music by George Frideric Handel (as well as his contemporaries Thomas Arne and John Hebden) centered on the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens – a carnival of music and entertainments that entertained visitors for nearly 200 years. The booklet notes features images and expert commentaries of the Vauxhall Gardens by author David E. Coke and conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham.