Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Water Music
Sir Neville Marriner thins out the usual ASMF textures and leads  vigorous, stately accounts of both theWater MusicSuites and theMusic for the Royal Fireworks.The playing is snappy, the feeling of  dance-inspired animation just right. This is the ideal compilation, presenting  both scores complete; and the sound is open, well balanced, and extremely well  defined.--Ted Libbey