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Handel Oxford Water Music
Release date November 2003
Tracks:
| 1 – 3 | Handel Trio Sonata Op.5 No.4 in G Major |
| 4 – 9 | Leclair, Premier Recreation De Musique Op. 6 In D Major |
| 10 | Corelli, Trio Sonata Op. 2 No. 12 in G Major |
| 11 – 13 | Corelli, Trio Sonata Op. 1 No. 7 in C Major |
| 14 – 16 | Geminiani, Sonata V In A minor |
| 17 – 20 | Handel, Oxford Water Music Suite in F Major |
| 21 – 22 | Handel, Oxford Water Music Suite In G minor |
| 23 – 25 | Handel, Oxford Water Music Suite In D Major |
| 26 – 29 | Handel, Trio Sonata Op2 No.3 in B flat Major |
Reviews
‘The Brook Street Band… are gaining quite a reputation for their stylish and imaginative programmes. They bring a delightful freshness and lack of affectation… playing in a vivacious style… that makes it very clear that they are enjoying themselves. Their pleasure in the music is infectious.’
Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice, Stanley Sadie, Gramophone Magazine, February 2004
…The Brook Street Band… play with style and zest, keeping the rhythms light and springy and ornamenting deftly… eager continuo… delightful music-making, with violinists sparring elegantly in the faster numbers and bringing a delicate sense of timing and colour to the slow movements.’
Richard Wigmore, BBC Music Magazine, March 2004, Double 4-star Rating
‘No matter how many recordings of this music you may already have, if you buy one Baroque music disk this year, let it be this one… It is a tremendous pleasure to be a reviewer when a disk like this comes along… [a] magical balance of crispness, bounce, swing, sweetness and dignity… The Brook Street Band are stratospheric in quality…’
Paul Shoemaker, Music Web, Recording of the Month, December 2003
‘It’s a delight to hear vigorous yet informed playing, combined with such a crisp, well-balanced recording… Well researched and compiled… the accomplished performances of Handel’s earliest version of the famous Water Music suites are fresh and sparky, enlivening this all-too familiar music.’
Jane Jones – Classic FM, February 2004, 4-star Rating