Red Priest: Handel in the Wind at Foundling Museum, London on Friday 23rd February 2018

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Red Priest: Handel in the Wind

Add to my Calendar 23-02-2018 19:00 23-02-2018 21:00 36 Red Priest: Handel in the Wind Enjoy an evening of Handel’s classics from unique baroque group Red Priest 19:00 (doors open 18:30) | Tickets £25, £22.50 concessions & Foundling FriendsTickets available to purchase on the door, subject to availability Red Priest will take you on a whirlwind tour through the music of George Frideric Handel. Their programme includes sonatas, chaconnes and virtuoso variations, transcriptions both sublime and tempestuous and an audacious suite drawn from his most celebrated work, Messiah. The baroque group Red Priest has given several hundred concerts in many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and has been the subject of hour-long TV profiles for NHK (Japan) and ITV (UK). Conquering the classical music charts, they are the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. Programme to include:Suite from MessiahLargo and Passacaglia in G minorHarmonious Blacksmith VariationImprovisation on Lascia Ch’io PiangaRecorder Sonata in B minor Supported by The 1750 Club Foundling Museum, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Foundling Museum
40 Brunswick Square
Brunswick Square
London
WC1N 1AZ
England

Friday 23rd February 2018
7:00 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Messiah, HWV 56

Performers

Red Priest

Programme Note

Enjoy an evening of Handel’s classics from unique baroque group Red Priest

19:00 (doors open 18:30) | Tickets £25, £22.50 concessions & Foundling Friends
Tickets available to purchase on the door, subject to availability

Red Priest will take you on a whirlwind tour through the music of George Frideric Handel. Their programme includes sonatas, chaconnes and virtuoso variations, transcriptions both sublime and tempestuous and an audacious suite drawn from his most celebrated work, Messiah.

The baroque group Red Priest has given several hundred concerts in many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and has been the subject of hour-long TV profiles for NHK (Japan) and ITV (UK). Conquering the classical music charts, they are the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil.

Programme to include:
Suite from Messiah
Largo and Passacaglia in G minor
Harmonious Blacksmith Variation
Improvisation on Lascia Ch’io Pianga
Recorder Sonata in B minor

Supported by The 1750 Club

Red Priest Horse Crisis. Photo credit Adam Summerhayes

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