Suites Nos. 5 6 7 and 8-The Eight Great Suites is perhaps Handel's best-known and finest collection of keyboard works. Each of the four suites included here is written in full. This edition includes an informative introduction and a textual notes section. Selections from this volume are featured in the ABRSM Grade 7 Harpsichord and Grade 8 Piano syllabi.

The numbering of the sonatas in this completely new edition by Michael Pilkington follows that of Chrysander.

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 M…

Handel wrote the famous ?Dixit Dominus? with the text of Psalm 109 during his time in Italy in c. 1707. Although he was only 22 years old the work already demonstrates his wide spectrum of compositional abilities which are later fully realized in his operas and oratorios. Central to this work are the six choral movements which with their polyphonic structure are closely related to German cho…

Per Gli Sponsali Di Teti e Peleo - HWV 73-The main text of this edition of Handel?s wedding serenata ?Parnasso in festa per gli sponsali di Teti e Peleo? (HWV 73) is based on the version used for the work?s first performances in March of 1734. Three appendices retrace the complex history of the work significantly different versions of which were used for revival performances in 1737 1740 and 17…

Acis and Galatea HWV 49a1st version Handel set the myth about the love of the shepherd Acis for the sea nymph Galatea from Ovid’s Metamorphoses a total of three times: in the cantata Aci Galatea e Polifemo HWV 72 (1708) (BA4068) the masque Acis and Galatea HWV 49a (1718) (BA4039) and finally the pasticcio-like serenata Acis and Galatea HWV 49b (1732) (BA10700). This species of stage work w…

Handel wrote the famous Dixit Dominus with the text of Psalm 109 during his time in Italy in c. 1707. Although he was only 22 years old the work already demonstrates his wide spectrum of compositional abilities which are later fully realized in his operas and oratorios. Central to this work are the six choral movements which with their polyphonic structure are closely related to German cho…

Handel wrote the famous Dixit Dominus with the text of Psalm 109 during his time in Italy in c. 1707. Although he was only 22 years old the work already demonstrates his wide spectrum of compositional abilities which are later fully realized in his operas and oratorios. Central to this work are the six choral movements which with their polyphonic structure are closely related to German cho…

Oratorio in three acts-Composed in 1748 Handel???s oratorio on the wise and righteous King Solomon is one of the most lavish works he created in this genre.He attached special importance to the choir: rarely does Handel???s music have such extended choral numbers ranging from homophonic settings to choruses of jubilation in eight contrapuntal parts.- Clear straightforward piano reduction in the…