Favoured by Handel

 

Musicians:
Naoko Akutagawa (harpsichord)

Description

Japanese harpsichordist Naoko Akutagawa presents, as in her previous appearance at Handel House, one of the newly-discovered Suites by Gottlieb Muffat, the important Viennese keyboard master from whom Handel borrowed so liberally. This will only be the second public performance of the work, the first having been at the memorial concert in Belfast for the brilliant young musicologist Alison Dunlop, author of an important new biography of the composer. Muffat is framed by two masterpieces by J.S. Bach: the seldom-heard Prelude, Fugue and Allegro for lute or harpsichord, and the ever-popular G-major French Suite. Miss Akutagawa continues her series of critically-acclaimed CDs for Naxos this year with four world-premiere recordings of Suites by Gottlieb Muffat.

Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat, BWV 998

Gottlieb Muffat (1690-1770)
Suite in D minor, MCB 43
Fantasie, Allemande, Hornpipe, Gavotte en rondeau, Sarabande, Air, Menuet and Trio, Gigue

Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite in G major, BWV 816
Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte, Bourrée, Loure, Gigue