Bridget Cunningham – Handel꞉ The 8 Great Harpsichord Suites (2021) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

This important new recording revisits George Frideric Handel’s monumental Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin – subsequently known as the Eight Great Harpsichord Suites as well as his Chaconne in G major and some world première recordings of Handel’s superb arrangements of operatic arias and ouvertures which were specially reworked and ornamented by Handel for the harpsichord.

The album celebrates the 300th anniversary of the first publication of these works on 14 November 1720.

Bridget Cunningham is an international conductor, prizewinning harpsichordist and musicologist who trained at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a Junior Fellowship to work in the Centre for Performance History and coach singers in the baroque style.

Cunningham is also Artistic Director of London Early Opera, with a number of critically acclaimed recordings out on Signum Classics.

Tracklist:
01. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: I. Prelude
02. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: II. Allemande
03. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: III. Courante
04. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: IV. Gigue
05. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: I. Adagio
06. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: II. Allegro
07. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: III. Adagio
08. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: IV. Allegro
09. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: I. Prelude
10. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: II. Allegro
11. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: III. Allemande
12. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: IV. Courante
13. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: V. Air and Variations
14. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 3 in D Minor, HWV 428: VI. Presto
15. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: I. Allegro
16. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: II. Allemande
17. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: III. Courante
18. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: IV. Sarabande
19. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 4 in E Minor, HWV 429: V. Gigue
20. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: I. Prelude
21. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: II. Allemande
22. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: III. Courante
23. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: IV. Air and Variations, “The Harmonious Blacksmith”
24. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: I. Prelude
25. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: II. Largo
26. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: III. Allegro
27. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431: IV. Gigue
28. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: I. Overture
29. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: II. Andante
30. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: III. Allegro
31. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: IV. Sarabande
32. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: V. Gigue
33. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 7 in G Minor, HWV 432: VI. Passacaille
34. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: I. Prelude
35. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: II. Allegro
36. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: III. Allemande
37. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: IV. Courante
38. Bridget Cunningham – Harpsichord Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433: V. Gigue
39. Bridget Cunningham – Muzio Scevola, HWV 13: Ouverture (Arranged for Harpsichord)
40. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: IV. ‘Pupile sdegnose’ from Muzio Scevola
41. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: V. ‘Come se ti vedrò’ from Muzio Scevola
42. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: II. ‘Sventurato godi o core abbandonato’ from Floridante
43. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Overtures from Italian Operas, HWV 456: V. Overture to Riccardo Primo
44. Bridget Cunningham – Keyboard Arrangements of Arias from Italian Operas, HWV 482: III. ‘Ombra cara’ from Radamisto
45. Bridget Cunningham – Chaconne in G Major (Version V), HWV 435

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