Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks (Original Version 1749)
Here's another fine performance of theFireworks Musicin its  original scoring for 9 horns, 9 trumpets, 21 oboes, 21 bassoons, 3 snare drums,  and 3 timpani. It makes a grand noise, but just as interesting is the music that  conductor Trevor Pinnock has assembled from other Handel works--something the  composer himself did--to provide a rich and enjoyable selection of orchestral  music that we'd ordinarily never hear in this form. Pinnock has had a tendency  in the past to sound somewhat stiff in Handel's music, but here he lets his hair  down and everyone concerned seems to be having a very good time. So will you.--David Hurwitz