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Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks
Academy of Ancient Music
Part of the Academy of Ancient Music 2023-24 | The Golden Anniversary Season
Add to my Calendar 18-10-2023 19:30 18-10-2023 21:30 36 Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks Let's party like it’s 1749! Music of pure celebration as Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music ignite their 50th anniversary season with Handel’s Fireworks Music and Water Music. A royal court, a floating orchestra and a pyrotechnic display so dazzling that it brought London to a standstill. In early Georgian England, George Frideric Handel was the grand master of sonic pageantry, and his Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are the sound of pure celebration: as fresh, as stirring and as gloriously tuneful now as they were three centuries ago. But if you want to hear how Handel would actually have sounded back then: well, let’s just say that no period instrument orchestra has more of a history with these scores than the Academy of Ancient Music. Four decades ago, the AAM redefined the way we listen to Handel. Tonight, under the AAM’s ‘exhilarating’ (Evening Standard) music director Laurence Cummings, they’ll light up the sky all over again. Milton Court Concert Hall, London DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Milton Court Concert Hall
Silk St
Barbican
London
EC2Y 9BH
England
Programme
George Frideric Handel – Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
George Frideric Handel – Water Music, HWV 348-350
George Frideric Handel – Silete Venti, HWV 242
Performers
Laurence Cummings – Conductor
Lucy Crowe – soprano
Academy of Ancient Music
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Programme Note
Let's party like it’s 1749!
Music of pure celebration as Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music ignite their 50th anniversary season with Handel’s Fireworks Music and Water Music.
A royal court, a floating orchestra and a pyrotechnic display so dazzling that it brought London to a standstill. In early Georgian England, George Frideric Handel was the grand master of sonic pageantry, and his Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are the sound of pure celebration: as fresh, as stirring and as gloriously tuneful now as they were three centuries ago.
But if you want to hear how Handel would actually have sounded back then: well, let’s just say that no period instrument orchestra has more of a history with these scores than the Academy of Ancient Music. Four decades ago, the AAM redefined the way we listen to Handel. Tonight, under the AAM’s ‘exhilarating’ (Evening Standard) music director Laurence Cummings, they’ll light up the sky all over again.
