Handel the Cosmopolitan

Handel as you’ve never heard him: a genre-spanning, continent-crossing cosmopolitan, brought vividly to life by The Assembled Company. Born in Germany, trained in Italy, and British by choice, George Frideric Handel was nothing if not cosmopolitan, and yet his music was powerfully…

Italian music, English style – La Serenissima celebrates the Italian musicians who shaped the English baroque, and the continental composers who wrote with an English accent. English music has never been an island. In the baroque era, the musical traffic between Britain…

Programme Vivaldi – Cello Concerto in B minor Bach – Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 Mozart – Divertimento No 3 in F Vivaldi – Double Violin Concerto in A minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Performers The Baroque Chamber Orchestra of London…

Programme Vivaldi – Concerto for 2 violins and Cello in D minor Mozart – Divertimento No 1 in D Pachelbel – Canon and Gigue in D Bach – Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor Vivaldi – Four Seasons Performers The Baroque…

Programme Vivaldi – Cello concerto in C minor Bach – “Air” on a G string Handel – Water Music Suite in G Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No 5 Handel – Concerto Grosso in Bb Vivaldi – “Autumn and Winter” from The Four…

Programme Handel – Arrival of The Queen of Sheba Bach – Air ‘on the G String’ Mozart – Salzburg Symphony No 1 in D Pachelbel – Canon in D Purcell – Chaconne Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Violins in A Minor Vivaldi…

Programme Walton – ‘Passacaglia: Death of Falstaff’ and ‘Touch her soft lips’ and part from Music from Henry V Mozart – Ave Verum Corpus Mozart – Piano Concerto No 12 in A Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine Fauré – Pavane Fauré…

Programme Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata Chopin – Fantasy Impromptu Chopin – Minute Waltz Chopin – Nocturne no 1 in B flat minor Schubert – Impromptu in G flat major Brahms – Rhapsody No. 2 Grieg – Wedding Day at Troldhagen Rachmaninov –…

Enjoy an early evening concert of great piano music and arias spanning the romance of Beethoven’s Pathétique Sonata and the jazzy rhythms of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, performed by international British pianist Warren Mailley-Smith and acclaimed soprano, Susan Parkes. Programme Beethoven –…