Georg Friedrich Händel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Water Musick (E/VG+) – LP, EU 1978

Water Musick is an LP by Georg Friedrich Händel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt from 1978 released on the Telefunken label.

About this album

Harnoncourt’s Water Musick is a landmark historically informed Handel recording, prized for its crisp articulation, buoyant dance rhythms and period-aware orchestral balance. Concentus Musicus Wien helped redefine Baroque performance practice in the 1970s, and this reading shows why: it favours transparency, rhetorical phrasing and vivid instrumental colour over later-romantic weight. Handel’s Water Music, originally written for outdoor performance on the Thames, remains one of the composer’s most enduring orchestral suites, and Harnoncourt’s approach brings its ceremonial brilliance and festive momentum into sharp focus. It is an influential interpretation of a familiar masterpiece.

Genre: Classical