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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
(Halle 1685 - London 1759)

Harpsichord Transcriptions & 6 Little Fugues

FERNANDO DE LUCA
harpsichord

Concerto Grosso in d Minor Op.6 No.10 HWV328 (1739/40)
Transcribed by F. Chrysander, adapted to Harpsichord by F. De Luca

1. Ouverture
2. Allegro [Fuga] - Lentement
3. Air, lentement [Sarabande]
4. Allegro [Allemande]
5. Allegro [Courante]
6. Allegro moderato in D Major [Gavotte]

Parnasso in Festa, per li sponsali di Teti e Peleo (1734)
Parte Seconda, No.1 - Transcribed by F. De Luca

• Soli e Coro "Nel petto sento un certo ardor" (Apollo e le muse)

6 Piccole Fughe, from "Twelve Voluntaries and Fugues for the Organ or Harpsichord with Rules for Tuning by... Mr Handel" (London, c.1780)

Published in [Chrysander, Vol.48] p.183-190; 1894
attr. Handel, probably spurious

1. Fuga No.1
2. Fuga No.2
3. Fuga No.3
4. Fuga No.4
5. Fuga No.5
6. Fuga No.6

Amadigi di Gaula (1715), Atto II, Scena V
Transcribed by F. De Luca

• Aria "Pena tiranna io sento al core"

Issue 2015-01

Recorded in Venice:
2014 August 16 (Concerto Grosso X / Amadigi di Gaula)
2013 February 25 (Little Fugues)
Recorded in Rome: 2012 March 15 (Parnasso in Festa)

German harpsichord after Christian Vater (1738) built by
F. P. Ciocca (2007). Pitch A=415Hz

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on the left: Handel's Statue - Carved in London by Louis-François Roubiliac for the Vauxhall Gardens, Signed and Dated 1738 - on the right: F. De Luca - Victoria & Albert Museum, London (August 2011)

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