Handel - Great Suites, Chaconne
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Label: ABC Classics
Cat No: ABC4815711
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 29th September 2017
Contents
Works
Suits of the Most Celebrated LessonsKeyboard Suite no.2 in F major, HWV427
Keyboard Suite no.4 in E minor, HWV429
Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major, HWV430 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
Keyboard Suite no.6 in F sharp minor, HWV431
Artists
Erin Helyard (harpsichord)Works
Suits of the Most Celebrated LessonsKeyboard Suite no.2 in F major, HWV427
Keyboard Suite no.4 in E minor, HWV429
Keyboard Suite no.5 in E major, HWV430 'The Harmonious Blacksmith'
Keyboard Suite no.6 in F sharp minor, HWV431
Artists
Erin Helyard (harpsichord)About
Acclaimed as “Australia’s most engaging soloist” by Limelight Magazine, Helyard is a virtuosic and expressive performer as well as a dedicated scholar of historically informed performance practice.
This album was recorded shortly before Helyard was awarded the 2017 Helpmann Award for Best Music Direction, for Handel’s opera Saul, the latest in a long line of accolades for his work. Written over the preceding few years, the Suites are remarkable for their eclectic and wide-ranging idioms: French-style overtures, Italian sonatas and arias, and the dance elements of the Franco-German keyboard suite.
The repetitive form allowed both technical and expressive skills to be showed off: Helyard plays from a 1730s score with handwritten ornamentation that demonstrates how musicians at the time would have risen to the challenge. The album closes with a set of variations on Handel’s opera arias by William Babell, a violinist and harpsichordist in George I’s private band.
Helyard plays a harpsichord made by Jacob and Abraham Kirckman in London in 1773, one of very few instruments from the time that have survived unaltered from their original state. This harpsichord is particularly remarkable for its ‘machine stop’, allowing the player to produce diminuendo and crescendo effects without lifting his hands from the keys.
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