Jacques Loussier Trio - Handel: Water Music & Royal Fireworks (2002)

Pianist/composer Jacques Loussier has been swinging the classics for more than four decades now, ever since he formed the Play Bach Trio in the late ‘50s, when the union of his classical background with his interest in jazz created a remarkable success story. The trio toured extensively, selling over six million albums in fifteen years, and then disbanded. In 1985, the Bach tercentenary prompted Loussier to reform his trio with two new members and return to his jazzy spin on the classics. For Telarc, his first two recordings were reinterpretations of baroque music: Jacques Lousier Plays Bach (CD83411) and Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (CD83466), and Debussy (CD83511) and the Baroque Favorites (CD83591).
In his newest recording for Telarc, Loussier and the members of his talented trio concentrate on the music of Handel, with fresh new settings of two of the master composer’s most popular works: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Also featured is Handel’s Passacaglia, from Suite No. 7 in G Minor.