From a concert just a few weeks ago at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, in Newark, N.J., the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and conductor Ton Koopman play the Water Music Suite No. 1, by Handel.

San Fransisco based Philharmonia Baroque plays the Symphony No. 59 by Haydn in concert in California. And we hear from one of the ensemble's CD recordings as well, the Hornpipe movement from George ...

Some of his fans might think George Handel walked on water, but the composer actually was more comfortable on a barge. That was the intention, anyway, behind his Water Music suite, which opens "Waves, ...