This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for "Best Small Ensemble Performance." Concerti Grossi No 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11 are also available on HMU # 2907228. For the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze conducts Handel's masterpiece for chamber orchestra. The Concerti Grossi of Op. 6 were composed in just a month's time in the autumn of 1739. As Handel wrote the score for the eleventh of its twelve pieces, his publisher began canvassing for funds for its publication. (Classical music and penury still go hand-in-hand!) Fortunately, at least one hundred subscribers came forward and subsidized the printing of this marvelous score. Conductor Andrew Manze supplies informative notes to his own recording (part of the superior Harmonia Mundi packaging). The performances are fresh and strongly pulsed. Some might find the original instrument sound a bit driven at times, but the nobility that is Handel is always evident.

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This set was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for "Best Small Ensemble Performance." Concerti Grossi No 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 11 are also available on HMU # 2907228. For the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze conducts Handel's masterpiece for chamber orchestra. The Concerti Grossi of Op. 6 were composed in just a month's time in the autumn of 1739. As Handel wrote the score for the eleventh of its twelve pieces, his publisher began canvassing for funds for its publication. (Classical music and penury still go hand-in-hand!) Fortunately, at least one hundred subscribers came forward and subsidized the printing of this marvelous score. Conductor Andrew Manze supplies informative notes to his own recording (part of the superior Harmonia Mundi packaging). The performances are fresh and strongly pulsed. Some might find the original instrument sound a bit driven at times, but the nobility that is Handel is always evident.