Handel Water Music

[Barbirollians]

I shall firmly nail my colours to the mast of the 1964 Menuhin recording with Pinnock as my HIPP choice

What is your favourite ?

[Bryn]

Without a doubt:



There's nothing come near it.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sir Neville Marinner/ASMF

[VodkaDilc]

L'Arte dell'Arco - Federico Guglielmo on CPO.

[mercia]

nail my colours to the mast

not sure the original barges had masts

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/GeorgIvonGro%C3%9FbritannienGeorgFriedrichHaendelHamman.jpg

[HighlandDougie]

Without a doubt:



There's nothing come near it.

I'll second that, especially in its SACD incarnation

[BBMmk2]

Sir Neville Marinner/ASMF

Yes! Agreed there EA! Or Robert King and King's Consort c/w Telemann's work to!

[Roehre]

Without a doubt:



There's nothing come near it.

Seconded for HIPP, with ASMIF/Marriner for a "traditional" performance

[MickyD]

I would like to hear the Niquet, but I also very much enjoy the recent version from Mark Minkowski and his Musiciens du Louvre on Naive.

[BBMmk2]

Without a doubt:



There's nothing come near it.

I am afraid I( could'nt quite see who the artists are on this recording?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Looks like the superb Hervé Niquet conducting Le Concert Spirituel, Bbm; a recording I didn't previously know about. I have difficulty reading the label: GLOSSA?

(I'm very fond of Jordi Savall's recording.)

[Nick Armstrong]

I am afraid I could'nt quite see who the artists are on this recording?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Handel-Fireworks-Concert-Spirituel-Niquet/dp/B001DETDGO

Here you go - Niquet & his Concert Spirituel on Glossa.

Expensive though - nearly 20 quid! SACD...?

[HighlandDougie]

Or, using Hafod's Spanish discovery

http://www.amazon.es/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_es_ES=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=handel+herve+niquet&x=0&y=0

which, even with postage, is cheaper. I have the same recording in a pre-SACD 2-channel issue, also from Glossa, as well as the above version.

[Pegleg]

Another vote for Robert King 's Handel/Telemann recording now at bargian price on Helios.

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDH55375&vw=dc

Jordi Savall's is good. It's a pity his concert peformances can, as for exampe the one broadcast from 2009 Edinburgh Festival, seem as if he's pressed the fast forward button, taking everything at breakneck speed.

I've only heard bits of the 2-channel version of the Hervé Niquet recording. Don't forget his 2012 Prom:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/july-18/14226

With 80 musicians, it should be a blast.

[Nick Armstrong]

Or, using Hafod's Spanish discovery

http://www.amazon.es/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_es_ES=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=handel+herve+niquet&x=0&y=0

which, even with postage, is cheaper. I have the same recording in a pre-SACD 2-channel issue, also from Glossa, as well as the above version.

Oooh blimey, I had no idea! Thanks!




(Why on earth has the link in my #12 not shown up as such?! It's in the same format at all the others. Oh well... t'vagaries of t'internet.... )