Georg Friedrich Händel: Largo Mw 8: Cello: Instrumental Work

Here for the first time in a popularly accessible edition are 35 of his finest keyboard works for solo instruments reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition including eight 'Great Suites' and 'Fugue In A Minor'. For this new edition the pieces have been rearranged and retitled according to the latest scholarly sequences found in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Students and scholars will find many of the ideas Handel sketched here expanded and reworked in later chamber and orchestral works and in the opera dance movements; musicians and every Baroque music lover will see in these neglected pieces 'a Protean Fluidity' (New Grove) worthyof the great composer and more than worthy of any musical library.

En 1738 Haendel compose l?opéra-comique Serse qui relate les diverses escapades amoureuses de Xerxès - représentation purement imaginaire du roi de Perse. Il intègre dans cette œuvre l?aria Ombra mai fú reprise dans diverses versions instrumentales sous le titre de Largo d?Haendel. L?arrangement de James Curnow est idéal pour mettre en valeur les caractéristiques sonores de chaque famille d?instrument développer l?expressivité et le jeu legato.

En 1738 Haendel compose l?opéra-comique Serse qui relate les diverses escapades amoureuses de Xerxès - représentation purement imaginaire du roi de Perse. Il intègre dans cette œuvre l?aria Ombra mai fú reprise dans diverses versions instrumentales sous le titre de Largo d?Haendel. L?arrangement de James Curnow est idéal pour mettre en valeur les caractéristiques sonores de chaque famille d?instrument développer l?expressivité et le jeu legato.

Handel's Largo - Deep In Thy Shade (Ombra Mai Fu) is a beautiful aria from Act I of Xerses and is available here in both English and Italian with Piano Accompaniment. The English translation has been provided byMay Murke.

The arrangement of this famous melody by Handel retains the stately and distinguished feel of the original piece but allows it to be performed by less experienced musicians. The melody is carried by the first violin while the lower parts add depth and substance to the work. An ideal introduction to string ensemble playing.