Kenneth Hamilton – Handel Remembered (2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Kenneth Hamilton – Handel Remembered (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:12:26 minutes | 616 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ASC Records

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.

Tracklist:

1-01. Kenneth Hamilton – Samson, HWV 57, Act I Scene 1 (Arr. for Piano by Anonymous): II. Chorus of Philistines: “Awake the Trumpet’s Lofty Sound!” (02:12)
1-02. Kenneth Hamilton – Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel’s Almira, S. 181 (11:23)
1-03. Kenneth Hamilton – 32 Variations in C Minor, WoO 80 (10:37)
1-04. Kenneth Hamilton – Minuet in G Minor, HWV 434/4 (03:59)
1-05. Kenneth Hamilton – Suite in the Style of Handel in C Major, K. 399/385i: I. Overture. Grave – Allegro (03:47)
1-06. Kenneth Hamilton – Suite in the Style of Handel in C Major, K. 399: II. Allemande (03:36)
1-07. Kenneth Hamilton – Suite in the Style of Handel in C Major, K. 399: III. Courante (02:19)
1-08. Kenneth Hamilton – Suite in the Style of Handel in C Major, K. 399: IV. Sarabande (Excerpt) (00:15)
1-09. Kenneth Hamilton – Gigue in G Major, K. 574 (01:28)
1-10. Kenneth Hamilton – Free Settings of Favourite Melodies: No. 2, Hornpipe from “The Water Music” (01:51)
1-11. Kenneth Hamilton – Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 (25:03)
1-12. Kenneth Hamilton – Gavotte von Christ. W. Gluck (After WQ. 40) (03:03)
1-13. Kenneth Hamilton – Handel in the Strand (02:47)

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