HANDEL: THE HARMONIOUS BLACKSMITH
Of all of Handel’s works, it is in most of his solo harpsichord pieces that we may get a glimpse of his creative youth. But in others, we meet him in his full maturity, as the master to whom Beethoven would declare: “To him I bend the knee!” Among this great music’s immense interpretive challenges are a distinct undercurrent of haughtiness and pride, eloquent sculpting of the Urlinie, élan, and – above all – euphony.
‘REINVENTING GUITAR’ EDITIONS – COLLECTION: Baroque – CATALOGUE Nr: RGBC 02
This is Smaro Gregoriadou’s arrangement of Air from Harpsichord Suite V HWV 430 ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’ by Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759).
Arranged for standard guitar tuning and/or for every available tuning of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics. Available in printed and digital versions.
ISMN: 979-0-9016134-3-0 (printed version) ISMN: 979-0-9016134-2-3 (web version)
Printed in Greece, first published in 2019. Copyright ©2019 by Smaro Gregoriadou & ‘REINVENTING GUITAR’ EDITIONS
Smaro has included the arrangement of this piece in her CD album Reinventing guitar Vol. 2 by DELOS and interprets it on a high-tuned scalloped pedal guitar of Kertsopoulos Aesthetics
Click here for liner notes on Air ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’ / RGBC 02.