Handel: Complete Organ Concertos / Ton Koopman conducting and organ

The difference between Handel’s organ concerto and Bach’s is that in the case of Handel, it was a pure concert piece played between the acts of an oratorio, whereas in the case of Bach, it was an arrangement based on someone else’s work for the purpose of practicing composition. I have not listened to many other recordings of this work, but this CD by Koopman is probably one of the best ones. In addition CD by Lorenzo Ghielmi is also very good and it’s my favorite. As I have written somewhere else, Handel’s “plagiarism” is very common, both in his own works and others. In the case of these organ concertos, there are many adaptations from his own works and borrowings from Telemann’s Tafelmusik and the other works. #baroque #handel #片山俊幸