Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks (Original Version 1749)

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TREVOR PINNOCK – HANDEL: MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS – CD

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Here’s another fine performance of the Fireworks Music in its original scoring for 9 horns, 9 trumpets, 21 oboes, 21 bassoons, 3 snare drums, and 3 timpani. It makes a grand noise, but just as interesting is the music that conductor Trevor Pinnock has assembled from other Handel works–something the composer himself did–to provide a rich and enjoyable selection of orchestral music that we’d ordinarily never hear in this form. Pinnock has had a tendency in the past to sound somewhat stiff in Handel’s music, but here he lets his hair down and everyone concerned seems to be having a very good time. So will you. –David Hurwitz