Details
Handel and Hendrix in London
23 & 25 Brook Street
Mayfair
London
W1K 4HB
England
Programme
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Ballo del Granduca, SwWV 319
George Frideric Handel – Solomon, HWV 67: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
George Frideric Handel – Chaconne, HWV 486
John Blow – Mortlack's Ground
John Blow – Ground in D minor
Henry Purcell – Suite Anglaise
Thomas Tomkins – Fancy for Two to Play
John Danyel – A Fancy for Two Lutes
John Danyel – Her Leaves be Greene
William Byrd – The Woods so Wilde
Performers
Nathaniel Mander – harpsichord
Sam Brown – lute
Programme Note
The ground bass is a repetitive bass line synonymous with Renaissance and Baroque music. Nathaniel Mander (harpsichord) and Sam Brown (Renaissance lute) present the common ground between Handel and his predecessors.