Ariodante Suite

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel (arr. Chuck Elledge)

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General Info

Year: 1735 / 2004
Duration:
Difficulty: I-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $45.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Masterfully arranged, this delightful three-movement suite explores the musical characteristics of the Baroque style. The first two movements are arrangements of dances from a ballet sequence and the final movement is an arrangement of the instrumental introduction to the final chorus of the opera.

- Program Note from publisher

Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 4, 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. The opera was first performed in the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 8 January 1735.

Like Handel's other works in the opera seria genre, Ariodante, despite its initial success, fell into oblivion for nearly two hundred years. In the 1970s, the work began to be revived, and has come to be considered one of Handel's finest operas.

Synopsis: In Medieval Scotland, Ginevra, daughter of the King, is in love with and betrothed to Prince Ariodante. She rejects the amorous advances of the Duke of Albany, Polinesso, who then cruelly tricks Ariodante and Ginevra's father into believing that Ginevra has been unfaithful. Ariodante attempts suicide and Ginevra is condemned, but after a challenge to a duel by Lurcanio, Ariodante's brother, the dying Polinesso admits his plot and the lovers are reunited.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

Louisiana: II
Michigan: Junior High D
Texas: II. Complete

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Hail the Conquering Hero (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Marlatt) (1746/2008/2014)
Hallelujah Chorus (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1741/2013)
Hallelujah Chorus (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1741/2003)
Hornpipe from the "Water Music" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1717/2012)
Handel's Largo (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1738/2007)
See the Conquering Hero Comes (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1746/2007)
Water Music Suite (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kanayama) (1717)

All Wind Works

Air and Finale (arr. Balent) (1717/1989)
Amen (arr. Grace)
Antiphonal Alleluia (arr. Liebergen) (1746/1999)
Ariodante Suite (arr. Elledge) (1735/2004)
Arm, Arm, Ye Brave (arr. Barrow) (1746/1980)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (arr. Allen) (1748/2007)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (arr. Kenny) (1748/1988)
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (arr. Ricketts) (1748/2004)
Concerto Grosso, Op 6
Concerto Op. 5, No. 6 (arr. Werle)
Conquering Hero Comes, The, from "Judas Maccabeus"
Dead March from "Saul"
Entrance of the Queen of Sheba (arr. Marlatt) (1748/2011)
Finale Grandioso (arr. Philip Gordon)
Fughetta (tr. Conley) (1986)
The Gods Go A-Begging (arr. Beecham; arr. Duthoit; rev. Leidzen) (1929/1947)
Hail the Conquering Hero (arr. Marlatt) (2008)
Hail the Conquering Hero (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Marlatt) (1746/2008/2014)
Hallelujah (arr. Davis and Longfield) (1741/2004)
Hallelujah, Amen (arr. Barnes) (1986)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr Ades) (1741/1958)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr. Barnes) (1741/1988)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr. Chiaffarelli) (1741/1941)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr. Glover) (1741/2016)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr. Johnson) (1741/1951)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr. Longfield) (1741/1994)
Hallelujah Chorus (arr. Rondeau) (1741/2010)
Hallelujah Chorus (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1741/2013)
Hallelujah Chorus (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1741/2003)
A Handel Celebration (arr. Erickson) (1985)
Handel's Largo (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1738/2007)
The Harmonious Blacksmith (arr. Osterling) (1720/1992)
The Harmonious Blacksmith (arr. Syler) (1720/2020)
Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves (arr. Barrow) (1726/1973)
Hornpipe from the "Water Music" (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1717/2012)
Hornpipe from "Water Music Suite" (1717)
La Rejouissance (arr. Williams)
La Rejouissance from "Music for the Royal Fireworks" (arr. Seipp)
Larghetto (arr. Bullock) (1738/1994)
Larghetto (arr. Molenaar) (1739-40/1955)
Largo (arr. Barnes) (1738/1988)
Largo (arr. Fagan) (1738/2004)
Largo (arr. Hautvast) (1738/)
Lascia Ch'io Pianga (arr. Tamura) (1711/2014)
Let Me Weep (arr. Haan) (1711/2004)
March and Gavotte (arr. King) (1705/1956/1990)
Menuet Varié (Clarinet Choir) (arr. Hautvast) (/2011)
Menuet Varié (Saxophone Quartet) (arr. Hautvast) (/2011)
Menuetto from Symphony No. 104 "London" (arr. Glover)
Messiah Overture (arr. Johnson) (1741/1966)
The Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Boudreau) (1749/1959)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Erickson) (1749/1997)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (rescored Hindsley) (1749/197-?)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Leenhouts) (1749/2021)
The Music for the Royal Fireworks (arr. Mackerras and Baines) (1749/1960)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (ed. Rodenmacher) (1749/)
Music for Two Wind Bands (arr. Schaefer) (1977)
No Shade So Rare (arr. Forsblad) (1738/1999)
An Occasional Suite (arr. Osterling) (1746/1958)
Overture in D Minor
Passacaglia (arr. Longfield) (c. 1720/2014)
Royal Fireworks Music (arr. Sartorius) (1749/1941)
Royal Fireworks Music (arr. Schaefer) (1749/1982)
Sarabande (arr. Daehn) (1703-1706/1733/2004)
Sarabande (arr. Gingery) (1703-1706/1733/1976)
Sarabande (arr. Van Grevenbroek) (1703-1706/1733/2012)
Sarabande (arr. Hautvast) (1703-1706/1733/2004)
See the Conquering Hero Comes (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1746/2007)
Slow March from "Scipio"
Song of Jupiter (arr. Anderson) (1952)
Suite from "Messiah" (trans. Curnow) (1741/1989)
A Suite of Baroque Dances (arr. Kinyon) (1979/1995)
Thanks Be to Thee
Three Chorales for Band (with Pasquini and Tchaikovsky; arr. Thornton) (1992/2004)
Three Movement from "Water Music" (arr. Wagner) (1715/2014)
Water Music (arr. Longfield) (1717/1997)
Water Music Suite (arr. Erickson) (1717/1985)
Water Music Suite (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kanayama) (1717)
Water Music Suite (arr. Kay) (1717/1950)
Zadok the Priest

Resources

Ariodante, Wikipedia Accessed 29 June 2021
Handel, G.; Elledge, C. (2004). Ariodante Suite [score]. Neil A. Kjos Music: San Diego, Calif.