The Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) was composed by George Frideric Handel, for solo keyboard (harpsichord), between 1703 and 1706. It is also referred to as Suite de pièces Vol. 2 No. 4. It was first published in 1733.[citation needed]
The work consists of five movements:
Movement | Type | Grove[1] reference |
Händel-Gesellschaft reference |
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe reference |
Notes |
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1 | Prelude | 107 | xlviii, 149 | The prelude did not appear in the first edition published by John Walsh[2] and was taken from Handel's keyboard suite HWV 428. HWV 561 is another version of the prelude.[citation needed] | |
2 | Allemande | 108 | ii, 81 | iv/5, 29 | |
3 | Courante | 109 | ii, 82 | iv/5, 30 | |
4 | Sarabande | 110 | ii, 82 | iv/5, 31 | theme with two variations. |
5 | Gigue | 111 | ii, 83 | iv/5, 33 |
The Sarabande was used in an orchestral arrangement for the Stanley Kubrick period drama film Barry Lyndon (1975).[3]
It was used for the funeral of a Venetian printer in James Burke's Connections.
Dutch singer Petra Berger used the Sarabande as the musical setting for her song about Mary, Queen of Scots, "Still a Queen (In My End Is My Beginning)", from her album Eternal Woman (2001).[citation needed]
In 2002, the sarabande was used in the so-called "Odyssey" commercial for Levi's. [citation needed]
The Sarabande was featured in the episode "Warp and Weft" (2017; S02E03) of the second season of the ITV period drama TV series Victoria.[4]
An orchestral version of the Sarabande was used on the first episode of The ABC Murders (2018), a television mini-series based on the Agatha Christie novel The A.B.C. Murders (1936), starring John Malkovich as Poirot. [citation needed]
Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Goodish uses it to accompany his 'found poetry'.
Danish DJ Christian Steen Jensen (alias Camena) used the Sarabande in his release (2006)
Keyboard Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande (Orch. Hale) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Alexander Briger