Handel's getting dangerously modern for proper Early Music ...

These days you get Early Music going right up to the late Romantic, any music (according to Wiki) for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises, instruments and other contemporary evidence. Which seems about right.

My favourite Water Music / Fireworks is the Jordi Savall / Concert des Nations recording on Alia Vox. I'm still in thrall to the King's Consort impressive covering of Purcell during the tercentenary year (anyone want a cheap thrill pick up their Essential Purcell CD which you can stil buy for a fiver in most record shops - it really is special). The Gabrielli Consort's Praetorious Mass for Christmas Morning is one of the most astonishing things I've ever heard in my life. And David Munrow is still waiting his heir I reckon!