Royal Fireworks • Water Music

"Perhaps the best combination yet of big sonority and stylish shaping, with an unusual clarity of lines." - American Record Guide, 12/95 "Music for the Royal Fireworks": Complete, in original scoring: 24 oboes, 12 bassoons, 2 contra-bassoons, 2 serpents, 9 trumpets, 9 horns, 3 timpani, 2 side-drums "The Water Music": Tracks 6 to 13, from the F Major Suite; Tracks 14 to 16 from the D Major Suite. TT: 52:06 SBM: Super Bit Mapping Ultra Analog 20-bit Digital Remastering Recorded at Conway Hall, London in 1973 and originally released as VSD 71176