This is my entry for the Secrets of Organ Playing Contest, week 117. I play a Trio by Georg Friedrich Händel
Although Georg Friedrich Händel was said to be one of the finest keyboard players of his time, he was not a professional organist. He did not hold a church position, nor did he leave much published organ music. There are of course the organ concerti, but he did not write any large scale chorale prelude, or any of the free works Bach was famous for.
However, some of his chamber music lends itself very well to being transcribed for the organ. The Trio presented here today can be found in manuscript Mus.ms. 30377, owned by the Staatsbibliothek Berlin - PK. It is not known who the scribe of this manuscript was. But whoever he was, he delivered a fine transcription of one of the slow parts of Händel’s oboe sonata, HWV 386a.
As it was originally one of the slow movements of this sonata the pedal part moves in slow quarter notes, interspersed wioth a few eighth notes. Perfect to try and play with my left knee fixed in a brace. SOme of the movements I had to do with my left leg were a bit painful, yet it was doable and the joy of playing the organ with two hands and two feets again far outweighs the physicval discomfort.
The recording was done with the Hauptwerk software and the sampleset, made by Sonus Paradisi, of the Schnittger organ in the St. Martini-kerk, Groningen (https://www.sonusparadisi.cz/en/organs/netherlands/groningen-st-martini.html).
Score available here: http://partitura.org/index.php/georg-friedrich-handel-trio-g-moll-hwv-366a/
Wonderful organ music.
You could hae fooled me into believing it was originally written for the organ. But it isn't, it's originally music for the oboe. Whoever wrote this adaptation did a great job.
Yes, thank you
Thanks for your entry! Wonderful trio! Does your left hand feels better than left leg?
Yes, by far. Left hand is almost at its old capacity. My left leg however still has a long way to go in the recovery.
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Wonderful
Organ music and the Christian idea of heaven are of course closely related... :-)
Excellent post continue to do you are great✌️❤️
For now I am glad to be able to play something like this again. With more rehabilitaton of my left leg and knee will come hopefully the ability to play the more ambitious works again.
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