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Handel's Hallelujah MP3:
Percussion & Mega Moog Synthesizer Recordings
As with his fellow countryman JS Bach, George Frideric Handel's music responds surprisingly well to percussion instrumentation.He was strongly influenced by his time in Italy but spent most of his career in England producing Operas, Oratorios and instrumental music from which we have made our selection.
George Handel - instrumental arrangements:
These pieces have been sympathetically remixed on new world instruments and a Moog synthesizer to crisp, sparkling effect:
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| 3:54min | 
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| George Handel's Concerto Grosso rendered on Steel drums, Vibraphone and Marimba. |
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| 3:50min |
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Our MP3 excerpt - Handel's Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah responded particularly well to the Steel Drums and Moog synthesizer combination also used to good effect on some of Bach's work. |
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| 3:11min |
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Sheba's Arrival from the opera Solomon arranged for strings and bassoons, replaces the strings with a Marimba and Steel Drums and the Bassoons with a combination of Ocarinas and Pan Flutes. |
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| 4:22min |
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In the Hornpipe from the Water music the Steel Drums are contrasted with a Moog synthesizer bass which give a crisp display of the counterpoint and rhythm.
Other composers
Why not compare these Handel MP3 recordings with some by Bach, Haydn, Mozart and Paganini - the impact of this approach on music of particular composers can be quite distinctive.
