Handel + Pergolesi - Arundel Festival 2018 at St Nicholas Parish and Priory Church, Arundel on Saturday 25th August 2018

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Handel + Pergolesi - Arundel Festival 2018

Part of the Arundel Festival 2018

Add to my Calendar 25-08-2018 19:30 25-08-2018 21:30 36 Handel + Pergolesi - Arundel Festival 2018 The Hanover Band will be performing Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and some of Handel’s lesser known Operatic Arias in the superb setting of St Nicholas Church, Arundel.   The Stabat Mater is a 13th century sequence used regularly for personal and communal devotions from the time of its creation. The text had been used by composers such as Palestrina, Lassus and Haydn, but the outstanding setting of the verses was considered at that time to be the one that Pergolesi made in 1736. It is an unashamedly theatrical work.   Handel composed 42 operas between 1705 and 1741, including 'Giulio Cesare' from 1724. He began composing operas in Germany before moving to England, where he found great success in this genre. His first opera in England, Rinaldo (1711), was met with enthusiasm, and several more Italian operas soon followed. Although almost all his English language works are technically oratorios rather than operas, several of them, such as Semele (1743), have become an important part of the opera repertoire   Doors open 6.45 St Nicholas Parish and Priory Church, Arundel DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Nicholas Parish and Priory Church
London Road
Arundel
West Sussex
BN18 9AT
England

Saturday 25th August 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Stabat Mater
George Frideric Handel – Operatic Arias

Performers

Katherine Watson – soprano
William Towers – countertenor
Benjamin Bayl – director / harpsichord

The Hanover Band

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Programme Note

The Hanover Band will be performing Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and some of Handel’s lesser known Operatic Arias in the superb setting of St Nicholas Church, Arundel.

The Stabat Mater is a 13th century sequence used regularly for personal and communal devotions from the time of its creation. The text had been used by composers such as Palestrina, Lassus and

Haydn, but the outstanding setting of the verses was considered at that time to be the one that Pergolesi made in 1736. It is an unashamedly theatrical work.

Handel composed 42 operas between 1705 and 1741, including 'Giulio Cesare' from 1724. He began composing operas in Germany before moving to England, where he found great success in this genre. His first opera in England, Rinaldo (1711), was met with enthusiasm, and several more Italian operas soon followed. Although almost all his English language works are technically

oratorios rather than operas, several of them, such as Semele (1743), have become an important part of the opera repertoire

Doors open 6.45

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