Mr Handel in the Pub: Baroque Meets Folk | Arcantus ARC21025

Mr Handel in the Pub: Baroque Meets Folk

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Label: Arcantus

Cat No: ARC21025

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 23rd June 2023

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With 'Mr Handel in the Pub', the ensemble I Zefirelli explores the grey area between so-called serious music and light music and, in the best London tradition, juxtaposes baroque and folk music.

Georg Frideric Handel, with his Sonata à Flauto e Cembalo (HWV367a) and the folk-style Hornpipe (HWV461), represents this typically English balancing act between art and folklore.

Similarly, Henry Purcell's serious Sonata VIII à 3 is also contrasted with a merry, folk-inspired hornpipe from his incidental music to William Congreve's play The Old Bachelor.

Furthermore, this CD contains sets of folk dances from an anthology of dances called The Dancing Master and Scot Tunes after William McGibbon and Francesco Barsanti.

One of the highlights of this CD is I Zefirelli's virtuosic interpretation of Arcangelo Corelli's genius 'La Folia'.

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