August Wenzinger, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - George Frideric Handel: Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 69:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 427 205-2 | Recorded: 1962, 1966
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 69:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 427 205-2 | Recorded: 1962, 1966
Among all the recordings of Handel's Water Music, this is for me the most uplifting. Yes, it is on modern instruments. Yes, it was recorded in 1962, but if you can get hold of this on CD you'll find the sound as wonderful or better then any modern recording. August Wenzinger and his orchestra seem to me to have the measure of Handel's music completely. Tempos are just right and you can almost feel the fun these people are having with it.