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The Planets - Spiritato
A baroque orchestral journey through the solar system with music by Handel, Rameau and others
Part of the Brighton Early Music Festival 2026
Add to my Calendar 03-10-2026 19:30 03-10-2026 21:30 36 The Planets - Spiritato Festival regulars Spiritato bring us a celestial orchestral journey through the planets in a baroque pre-imagining of Holst’s famous masterpiece. In this programme each planet’s character is portrayed through music of the 17th and 18th centuries evoking the same astrological archetypes that inspired Holst: finding peace, war, jollity, wisdom, magic and mysticism in the music of Handel, Rameau and others. The Planets Mars, the Bringer of War - Kerll: Battalia Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Blow: Venus and Adonis Act 1 tune, Act II Tune Mercury, the Winged Messenger - Handel: Acis and Galatea Overture Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Castrucci No 3, second movement Spiritoso Saturn, the bringer of Old Age - Fischer: Lamento Uranus, the Magician - Herschel: Symphony No 8, third movement Neptune, the Mystic - Rameau: Les Boreads, Acte IV. Scene IV. St Martin's Church, Brighton and Hove DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Martin's Church
Lewes Road
Brighton and Hove
East Sussex
BN2 3HQ
England
Tickets
Prices: £25, £18 / under 30s £12.50, £9 / under 12s free from www.bremf.org.uk
Book Tickets
Programme
Jean-Féry Rebel – Les Élémens
~ Interval ~
Tarquinio Merula – Or ch'è tempo di dormire
Johann Caspar Kerll – Battaglia in C major
John Blow – Venus and Adonis
George Frideric Handel – Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Overture
Pietro Castrucci – Violin Sonata no.3 in G Minor, Op.1: III, Giga
Johann Fischer – Trost-Klang: Lamento
William Herschel – Symphony no.8 in C Minor: 3rd movement
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Boréades
Performers
Kinga Ujszászi – violin / director
Liz MacCarthy – violin
Ellen Bundy – violin
Henry Tong – violin
Andrew Taheny – violin
Nichola Blakey – viola
Elena Accogli – viola
Joe Crouch – cello
Kate Conway – cello
Carina Cosgrave – bass
Nicolás Mendoza – harpsichord
Louis Moisan – theorbo
Rosie Bowker – flute
Billy Hui – flute
Catriona McDermid – bassoon
Keith Price – percussion
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Programme Note
Festival regulars Spiritato bring us a celestial orchestral journey through the planets in a baroque pre-imagining of Holst’s famous masterpiece. In this programme each planet’s character is portrayed through music of the 17th and 18th centuries evoking the same astrological archetypes that inspired Holst: finding peace, war, jollity, wisdom, magic and mysticism in the music of Handel, Rameau and others.
The Planets
Mars, the Bringer of War - Kerll: Battalia
Venus, the Bringer of Peace - Blow: Venus and Adonis Act 1 tune, Act II Tune
Mercury, the Winged Messenger - Handel: Acis and Galatea Overture
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Castrucci No 3, second movement Spiritoso
Saturn, the bringer of Old Age - Fischer: Lamento
Uranus, the Magician - Herschel: Symphony No 8, third movement
Neptune, the Mystic - Rameau: Les Boreads, Acte IV. Scene IV.
