Une heure avec Haendel

Emmanuel Arakélian and Jean-Marc Aymes invite us to spend an hour with the most "operatic" of keyboard composers.

Virtually all his pieces for organ or harpsichord have some connection with vocal music, whether they are transcriptions of opera arias or overtures, or pieces intended as interludes in an oratorio. And even when the link is not direct, Georg Friedrich's keyboard music is always deeply vocal in its lines, its ornamentation, and sometimes even its grandeur, evoking the great...