Handel: Organ Works

Description

In terms of layout and musical text, this scholarly-critical performing edition of George Frideric Handel's Complete Organ Works is based on the complete edition volumes of the composer's keyboard music edited by Terence Best as part of the Halle Handel Edition (HHA).

The HHA Critical Commentary forms the basis of this edition, which however differs from the HHA volumes in two respects. Firstly, it gathers together, for the first time, all of Handel works for which it can be solidly argued that they were composed for the organ. The centre piece is a set of twelve handwritten fugues deriving directly from his immediate surroundings and published here, for the first time, as a unified cycle. Secondly, this edition presents plausible alternative readings from various sources in the main body of the music. in the HHA these readings, all of which definitely or presumably stem from the composer, are merely listed in the critical commentary.

Contents:

• Fugue I in C Minor., HWV 610
• Fugue II in G Minor, HWV 605
• Fugue III in B-flat Major, HWV 607
• Fugue IV in F Minor, HWV 433/2
• Fugue V in E Minor, HWV 429/1
• Fugue VI in G Major, HWV 606
• Fugue VII in D Minor, HWV 428/2
• Fugue VIII in A Minor, HWV 609
• Fugue IX in B Minor, HWV 608
• Fugue X in F-sharp Minor, HWV 431/3
• Fugue XI in F Major, HWV 427/4
• Fugue XII in F Major, HWV 611
• "Fugue in E Major", HWV 612
• "O the pleasure of the plains" in G Major, HWV 474 "- Jesu meine Freude" in G Minor, HWV 480