No. 3 — Handel’s Organ Banquet

Artists

Repertoire

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Sinfony from Messiah (HWV 56) combined with the Fugue from Suite in E Minor, HWV 429

As with rosy steps, the morn (from Theodora, HWV 68)

Passacaille in G (HWV 399)                                                   

Lord, to Thee, each night and day (from Theodora, HWV 68)                                 

O praise the Lord with one consent (opening chorus of Chandos Anthem no. 9, HWV 254)

Lascia ch’io pianga (from Rinaldo, HWV 7)

Trio Sonata in F, Op 5, no. 6 (HWV 401)

Concerto in G minor/G major, op. 4, no. 1 (HWV 289)                                              

Fuga in D (“Amen” from Messiah, HWV 56)

A ‘Hallelujah’ Concerto (improvisation)   

Notes on the Album

Album Credits

Recorded January 5th and 6th, 2023, at Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Session engineering, mixing and mastering by Joel Gordon.

Album production and design by Ryan MacEvoy McCullough.

Photographs of David Yearsley by Elizaveta Zabelina

Photograph of Anabel Taylor Organ by Cornell University Photography

Special thanks to the Cornell Department of Music, Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, Annette Richards, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.