Handel in Hamburg | Hyperion - Helios CDH55324

Handel in Hamburg

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Label: Hyperion - Helios

Cat No: CDH55324

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd January 2012

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About

Handel arrived in Hamburg in 1703, aged eighteen. He spent four years in the city and wrote several works for the town’s opera house. Hamburg opera was a rather eclectic beast at the time, drawing on Italian and French language and instrumental style alongside the native German. Handel fell happily into this genre.

This recording brings together a selection of the delightful orchestral music (which tends to be in the French style) that Handel wrote there, some of it recorded for the first time.

A highly entertaining collection. Delightful rarities from the young Handel’ - Classic CD

A marvellous disc’ - The Independent

The disc is warmly commended’ - Fanfare, USA

American Handel Society Recording Prize

[from CDA67053]

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