Variations fugue et envoi sur un thème de Haendel; Stefan le poète - Markevitch, Igor 1912-1983; Fuji, Kazuoki (1982)
In the preface to the score of the Handel variations, his last composition whose theme is derived from Handel's fifth keyboard Suite in E major 'The Harmonious Blacksmith' (HWV 430), Markevitch states: "I wanted with this work, to pay homage to a great tradition which it seems to me has become unjustly discredited: that of the piano treated in itself as an heroic instrument."
For a discussion of the Handel variations, see Alice Mavrodin and Susan Bradshaw, 'Variations, Fugue, and Envoi on a Theme of Handel', Tempo, New Series, 133/134 (1980), 61-67; https://www.jstor.org/stable/945454
The Handel variations were originally published in 1942
Ex libris Gemeentelijke Discotheek Wevelgem (sticker) & Willie Verdievel
Keywords: Handel, George Frideric -- 1685-1759; 20th Century (1901-2000); Keyboard music; Piano; Theme and variations