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Release Date: 21 June 2024
Label: Prima Facie
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7141148051288
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Description
Prima Facie is delighted to present Handel Remembered, a rare recording of piano pieces inspired not by JS Bach, but by his great contemporary George Frideric Handel, and played by Kenneth Hamilton, whose remarkable series of Liszt CDs have garnered such exceptional critical acclaim. Though the album features a little Liszt (the Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's Almira), its climax is a commanding performance of Brahms' magisterial Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. Baroque tribute pieces by Mozart and Beethoven precede the Brahms, as do Handel transcriptions by Charles Valentin Alkan, Wilhelm Kempff and Percy Grainger. The album ends with two "encores": Brahms' elegant arrangement of a Gavotte by Gluck, and Grainger's uproarious Handel in the Strand. This delightfully life-enhancing disc is, as ever, supplemented by Hamilton's unfailingly entertaining and informative programme notes.
Tracklisting
Xuefei Yang, Johannes Moser, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Or
Kenneth Hamilton
Michael Cretu
Laura Serra
Vladimir Miller, Neil Latchman, Keri Farish
Terence Charlston, Julian Perkins
John Turner & Neil Smith
I Solisti Di Londra & Aleksander Szram
Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton, Gould Piano Trio, Philip Higham, Richard Lester, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Benjamin Frith & Alasdair Beatson
Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton
