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Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348: IIIa. [Allegro]

Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348: IIIa. [Allegro] by George Frideric Handel. 748 recordings in this catalogue, from 1961 to 2025.

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Neville Marriner

Conductor · 68 rec

Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Orchestra · 68 rec

Berlin Philharmonic

Orchestra · 38 rec

John Eliot Gardiner

Conductor · 35 rec

English Baroque Soloists

Orchestra · 35 rec

Charles Mackerras

Conductor · 22 rec

Pierre Boulez

Conductor · 22 rec

Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra

Orchestra · 21 rec

Recordings (748)

Conductor

Neville Marriner68 John Eliot Gardiner35 Charles Mackerras22 Pierre Boulez22 Nicholas McGegan20 Bohdan Warchal19 Riccardo Muti18 Stanislav Gorkovenko18 Christopher Hogwood14 Jean-François Paillard13 Yehudi Menuhin13 Trevor Pinnock12

Orchestra

Academy of St Martin in the Fields68 Berlin Philharmonic38 English Baroque Soloists35 Budapest Strings Chamber Orchestra21 New York Philharmonic21 Süddeutsche Philharmonie21 Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra20 English Chamber Orchestra19 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra15 Scottish Chamber Orchestra14 Slovak Chamber Orchestra13 The English Concert13

Label

Decca Classics63 Warner Classics51 Philips42 Sony Classical42 EMI37 EMI Classics36 Naxos34 Brilliant Classics31 Archiv Produktion29 Philips Classics28 Deutsche Grammophon27 Decca Music Group24

Decade

1960s2 1970s25 1980s247 1990s198 2000s105 2010s81 2020s39

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Violin11 Harpsichord6 Organ1

Performers	Year	Label
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists · view	1982	Deutsche Harmonia Mundi	3:12
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	4:52
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	3:15
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	7:39
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	3:45
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	3:05
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	2:34
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	3:38
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips Classics	1:06
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields · view	1980	Philips	1:18
Leopold Ludwig, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg · view	1978	Allegretto	3:05
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	3:40
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	3:23
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	2:05
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	1:32
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	2:09
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	2:05
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Colin Tilney · view	1972	Argo	3:23
Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra · view	1971	Decca Classics	3:00
Franzjosef Maier, Collegium Aureum · view	1971	Deutsche Harmonia Mundi	3:21