Handel - Organ Concertos, Op.4: Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina

eac-rip: flac-img, cue, log, complete scans. rar, 3% rec. 1 CD - 378MB DECCA - 2009 - 478 1465 amazon.com ...I was not only blown away by the playing of Dantone and the Academia Bizantina, but the way that their playing in turn transforms these works into an event. Their playing is energetic, bold and crisp without being dry: textures are very clear but without sounding thin or losing any momentum. Handel's preeminence as an opera composer comes to the fore in these versions more than the others I've heard, giving us truly dramatic effects and a real sense of interaction between the players, with Dantone's organ center stage. More so than any other performance of Handel's keyboard works (by the above mentioned soloists as well as Paul Nicholson's disc of harpsichord sonatas), this disc crystallized the idea of Handel the virtuoso shredding away at the keyboard... 01. Concerto No.3 in G minor, HWV291 - I. Improvvisazione - Adagio 06:19 02. Concerto No.3 in G mi...