Romantic Handel Organ Transcriptions
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759): Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 - Overture, Suite No. 1 in B Flat, HWV 434, Saul - Act I Symphony, Zadok the Priest, HWV 258 (arr. William Thomas Best [1826-1897]), Serse, HWV 40 - Ombra mai fu (arr. George Clement Martin [1844-1916]), Saul - Act II Symphony, Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63 - See the conqu'ring hero comes, Messiah, HWV 56 - Lift up your heads (arr. Alexandre Guilmant [1837-1911]), Messiah - I know that my Redeemer liveth (arr. Francis Cunningham Woods [1862-1929]), Messiah - Hallelujah (arr. Théodore Dubois [1837-1924]).
Catalogue Number: 08P016
Label: Brilliant Classics
Reference: 94709
Format: CD
Price: $7.98
Description: What more to say? Lushly arranged organ transcriptions of some of Handel's Greatest Hits, half of them by the English organist Best, who did much to popularize Bach and Handel in Victorian Britain. Massimo Gabba (organ of San Giovanni Evangelista, Alessandria, Italy).
