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Handel: Keyboard Suites 1

Label: Naxos Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Suite No. 1 in A Major, HMV 426; Suite No. 2 in F Major, HMV 427; Suite No. 3 in D minor, HMV 428; Suite No. 4 in E minor, HMV 429.

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Philip Edward Fisher: Handel: Keyboard Suites 1

Read "Handel: Keyboard Suites 1" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 30, 2010

Johann Sebastian Bach and Domenico Scarlatti (not to mention Francois Couperin and Dieterich Buxtehude) were not the only figures of the High Baroque to compose memorable keyboard music. George Frideric Handel composed two sets of eight keyboard suites each, published in 1720 and 1733, respectively, that remain highly regarded. These suites are comparable to those of ...