Скачать или смотреть G. F. Händel Allegro, 2nd mvmt from organ concerto op. 7/4 Soloist: Hans-André Stamm

recording from the 50 year jubilee concert of the Leverkusener Stadtkantorei on 30th september 2012 in ev. Christuskirche, Leverkusen, Germany with Hans-André Stamm at the chamber organ and strings of the Turkish Chamber Orchestra.
Händel composed his organ concertos (partly he transcribed mvmts from other works already existing) as interludes during his oratorio concerts. This gave him the opportunity to show his skills as an improvisor and organ virtuoso by adding so-called "ad libitum"- moments between passages allowing the player to continue improvising and ending with a notated cadenza formula leading back to the orchestra ritornell. Charles Burney, the famous music historian of the 19th century described those unique moments when Handel amazed his audience.
In this movement from his 10th organ concerto Handel provides more moments for the soloist than in other concertos to add his own (improvised) continuations of the solo passages. This was the reason to choose this movements and to switch a into a celtic fiddle gesture by adding syncopations in the left hand and repeated and rythmically shifted motives in the right hand.