Handel: Complete Organ Concertos; Christian Schmitt, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Nicol Matt (5CD)

Handel

Complete Organ Concertos

First complete Recording of the Breitkopf Urtext Edition

CD1                                                                                                                                                                                53’00

Concerto No.1 in G minor HWV289 Op.4/1

1. Larghetto e staccato 5’14
2. Allegro 5’30
3. Adagio 1’09
4. Andante 4’12

Concerto No.2 in B flat HWV290 Op.4/2

5. A tempo ordinario e staccato 0’56
6. Allegro 5’03
7. Adagio e staccato 0’41
8. Allegro ma non presto 4’03

Concerto No.3 in G minor HWV291 Op.4/3

9. Adagio 3’50
10. Allegro 3’57
11. Adagio 1’01
12. Allegro 2’33

Concerto No.4 in F HWV292 Op.4/4

13. Allegro 3’48
14. Andante 6’11
15. Adagio 1’09
16. Allegro 3’36

CD2                                                                                                                                                                                54’04

Concerto No.5 in F HWV293 Op.4/5

1. Larghetto 1’59
2. Allegro 2’24
3. Alla Siciliana 1’35
4. Presto 2’35

Harp Concerto in B flat HWV294

5. Andante allegro 4’18
6. Larghetto 5’30
7. Allegro moderato 2’40

Charlotte Balzereitharp

Juliane Heutjer, Elodie Wiemerrecorder

Concerto No.6 in B flat HWV294 Op.4/6

8. Andante allegro 6’07
9. Larghetto 3’50
10. Allegro moderato 2’41

Juliane Heutjer, Elodie Wiemerrecorder

Concerto No.7 in B flat HWV306 Op.7/1

11. Andante 9’45
12. Largo e piano 3’01
13. Fuga 2’19
14. Adagio 2’28
15. Bourrée 2’45

CD3                                                                                                                                                                                62’29

Concerto No.8 in A HWV307 Op.7/2

1. Ouverture 2’49
2. A tempo ordinario 5’16
3. Andante 1’42
4. Allegro 4’52

Concerto No.9 in B flat HWV308 Op.7/3

5. Andante 5’21
6. Organo ad Libitum: Sarabande 3’06
7. Spiritoso 4’36
8. Minuet I 1’30
9. Minuet II 3’57

Concerto No.10 in D minor HWV309 Op.7/4

10. Adagio 5’38
11. Allegro così così 4’57
12. Organo ad Libitum 0’45
13. Allegro 4’35

Concerto No.11 in G minor HWV310 Op.7/5

14. Staccato ma non troppo allegro/Adagio 3’35
15. Andante larghetto e staccato/Adagio 3’53
16. Menuet 2’09
17. Gavotte 3’39

CD4                                                                                                                                                                                59’55

Concerto No.12 in B flat HWV311 Op.7/6

1. Pomposo 3’57
2. Andante 2’04
3. Air 2’57

Concerto No.13 in F

HWV295 No.1, 2nd set

“The Cuckoo and the Nightingale”

4. Larghetto 2’25
5. Allegro 3’28
6. Organo ad libitum: Fuga HWV609 4’49
7. Larghetto 2’46
8. Allegro 3’20

Concerto No.14 in A HWV296a

No.2, 2nd set

9. Largo e staccato 4’25
10. Organo ad libitum:

Air A major HWV468                                                                                                                                                     1’21

11. Andante 4’39
12. Grave: Organo ad libitum 0’36
13. Allegro 6’23

Concerto No.15 in D minor HWV304

14. Andante 5’35
15. Grave 2’11
16. Organo ad libitum: Fuga G major HWV 606 4’11
17. Allegro 4’39

CD5                                                                                                                                                                                35’16

Concerto No.16 in F HWV305a

1. Ouverture 1’31
2. Allegro 3’19
3. Organo ad libitum 2’07
4. Allegro ma non troppo 3’53
5. Adagio 1’23
6. Andante 3’42
7. Allegro 1’44
8. Marche Allegro 1’49

Manuel Schmidt, Kirsty Wilsonoboe

Josef Weissteiner, Wolfgang Wipflerhorn

Frank Lehmann, Ulrich Hermanbassoon

From “Six Fugues or Voluntarys

for the Organ or Harpsichord”

9. HWV605 Fugue in G minor 4’03
10. HWV607 Fugue in B flat major 2’50
11. HWV608 Fugue in B flat minor 5’16
12. HWV610 Fugue in C minor 3’33

Christian Schmittorgan

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra · Nicol Matt

Recordings: Summer/Autumn 2004, Ev. Schlosskapelle Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany