George Frideric Handel - Water Music - Hornpipe - Canadian Brass

Unlike the “Passion for Matthew”, in which, with a huge increase in drama, meditation still dominates, “Passion for John” is close to the drama itself. The author was based on free poetry. Brockes texts. The music of both passions belongs to the heights of Bach's creativity. She embodies the idea of ​​morals. steadfastness and self-sacrifice for the good of the people. Secular cantatas of B. (about 30) are written, as a rule, “for chance” and differ little in style from spiritual ones. It is possible that some of them were performed with a stage.