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LONDON HANDEL FESTIVAL 2012

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Pictures above are of the HSC Final 2011


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 Rodelinda 14 & 16 March 2011
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This page was updated on 16 January 2012

Pictures above are of the production of Rodelinda 2011
Friends of the LHF Winter Series concert
Wednesday 22 February 2012 7pm
St George’s, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1

The Revolutionary Drawing Room
Colin Lawson basset clarinet
Adrian Butterfield violin | Kathryn Parry violin
Rachel Stott viola | Ruth Alford cello

Haydn   String Quartet in B flat major Op 76 No 4 ('The Sunrise')
Mozart   String Quartet in D minor K421
Mozart   Clarinet Quintet in A major K581
and clarinet quintet movement fragments
by Mozart in completions by Robert Levin

Tickets: £12 - online and by telephone, 01460 54660,
from 16 January for this concert only or on the door
on the night from 6.15pm. Refreshments will be available.

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Denys Darlow Founder Conductor
Laurence Cummings Musical Director
Adrian Butterfield
Associate Director
Catherine Hodgson Festival Director
Stephen Cooke Chairman of the London Handel Society
We would like to thank all our Handel SupportersPlatinum Benefactors, Gold Benefactors, Silver Benefactors, Patrons and our many Friends of the LHF.  In addition we are very grateful to the many trusts and foundations who have given grants to the Festival this year.

Grant donors include:
The Foundation for Sports and the Arts
The Mercers' Company

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Thank you.
Dear Fellow Handelians,

There are many reasons for us to celebrate this year at the London Handel Festival. It is twenty years since Denys Darlow first put on a Handel opera in conjunction with Michael Rosewell and the Royal College of Music. I am delighted that the collaboration is still flourishing and this year we are mounting Riccardo Primo (275th year after its première) with two delightful casts from the Royal College of Music International Opera School.

The opera that Denys chose to launch this special relationship with RCM was the 1712 version of Il pastor fido, Handel's second opera for the London stage. (I was lucky enough to be the continuo player for this production so this year marks my 20th with the Festival) La Nuova Musica launch their world première recording for Harmonia Mundi of this fine opera (this year celebrating its 300th anniversary)
on 13 April.

Two years ago we began a cycle of oratorios with libretti by Charles Jennens and this year it is the turn of Messiah. Composed 270 years ago, this very familiar
work is rarely heard in its original Dublin form and it is this version, with its many variants, including the gig-like ‘Rejoice greatly', that we will present on 24 April.

For the Wigmore programme we focus on the great Italian émigré, Francesco Geminiani, who was born in Lucca 325 years ago and died in Dublin 250 years ago. Two anniversaries in one! The Festival also has some rare jewels, including Hasse's Cajo Fabricio, Ragas from 18th Century India, a visit from the Croatian music school in Varaždin, in the intimate setting of the Conway Hall and of course, the many wonderful young performers in the lunchtime series.

On a personal note, it is the 10th anniversary of me taking over the Musical Directorship from Denys Darlow and I continue to be grateful for Denys' tireless work and inspiration. On becoming Musical Director I decided it was time for a Handel Singing Competition and I am delighted that this has gone from strength to strength and look forward to another thrilling Final.

I hope amongst all this excitement you will have time to sit back and enjoy these musical treats. I very much look forward to seeing you at the London Handel Festival, 2012!

Laurence Cummings
Musical Director
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Photo of Handel by Paul Frisbee
Photos of Il pastor fido, Alessandro, Poro, Atalanta, HSC finalists & LHP by Chris Christodoulou
Photo of Laurence Cummings by Sheila Rock

London Handel Festival

Founded by Denys Darlow in 1978 the London Handel Festival has contributed to a Handel revival in the UK, specialising in the performance of lesser-known works of the period. In 1981 the London Handel Orchestra and London Handel Singers made their debut at the Festival. Laurence Cummings took over as Musical Director from Denys Darlow in 2002.

The London Handel Orchestra, which is made up of some of London's finest professional baroque players, and led by Adrian Butterfield, now has an excellent reputation for historically informed performance. The Orchestra performs throughout the Festival at venues including Handel's church, St George's, Hanover Square, the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Academy of Music. The Orchestra also gives concerts at venues both in the UK and Europe outside the Festival period and has performed in Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival, the Chelsea Festival, the Windsor Festival, the Oslo International
Church Music Festival, with the Royal Choral Society and for the opening of the Queen's Jubilee in St George's Chapel, Windsor.

In 1999 the principals of the Orchestra formed the London Handel Players to explore the great wealth of chamber music repertoire composed by Handel and his contemporaries. They performed at the Celebration Concert for the opening of Handel House Museum and at Southside House for the Jubilee String of Pearls celebratory events. The annual Handel Singing Competition was inaugurated in 2002 to give young singers the opportunity to concentrate on the wealth of Handel repertoire. They are accompanied in the Final by members of the London Handel Orchestra.

The London Handel Society was established to promote the music of Handel and his contemporaries and in particular their little heard works, many of which have been brought to a wider public in the last thirty-three years. The Society also encourages young singers and musicians of outstanding promise by giving them performance opportunities early in their careers.


35th London Handel Festival
15 March
to 24 April 2012

Thursday 15 March 7pm
Handel Singing Competition Final 2012
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here for details of how to enter the Competition.
Friday 2 March 6pm 
HSC Semi-Final
Friday 16 March 7pm
Gloria - Ruby Hughes and Southbank Sinfonia Baroque
Saturday 17 March from 11am
Sing Coronation Anthems HWV258-261
Monday 19 March 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Carleen Ebbs Recital
Tuesday 20 March
Handel & Pepusch - Masterclass & concert
at North London Collegiate School & St Lawrence's Church
Adrian Butterfield, NLCS, RCM & Trinity College of Music
Tuesday 20 March 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Sara Deborah Struntz, Erik Dippenaar & Jadran Duncumb
Wednesday 21 March 7pm
Varazdin Choir
Monday 26 to Thursday 29 March 7pm
Handel Riccardo Primo HWV23
Fully staged production
Tuesday 27 March 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
The Regent's Soloists
Tuesday 27 March 7pm
Indian Twilight -
Ragas from an era of change
Wednesday 28 March 4-5pm
Talk by James Robert Carson on Riccardo Primo
Wednesday 28 March 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Keri Fuge Recital
Wednesday 28 March 7pm
Robert Woolley & Dominic Gwynn - organ recital and talk
Thursday 29 March
1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Trinity Laban Baroque Orchestra
Thursday 29 March 4-5pm
Talk by Katie Hawks on Riccardo Primo
Friday 30 March 7pm
Inchanted Forrest - Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
Tuesday 3 April 5.30-6.45pm
Music, Law & Medicine Walk with Janice Liverseidge
Tuesday 3 April 7pm
Around Handel - Carole Cerasi harpsichord recital
Friday 6 April 2.30pm
Bach St Matthew Passion BWV244
Wednesday 11 April 7pm
HSC 2011 Finalists' Showcase
Thursday 12 April 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Stefanie True Recital
Thursday 12 April 4.45-6.45pm
Mayfair Walk with Janice Liverseidge
Thursday 12 April 7pm -
Fringe Series
The Madness of Love - International Baroque Players
Friday 13 April 7pm
Handel Il pastor fido HWV8 - 1712 version
concert performance
Monday 16 April 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Emilie Renard (née Alford) Recital
Monday 16 April 7pm -
Fringe Series
Conversazioni - Sounds Baroque
Tuesday 17 April 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Rêveries Musicales
Tuesday 17 April 5.30-6.45pm
Handel & the Royal Family Walk with Janice Liverseidge
Tuesday 17 April 7pm
Orphée - Ruby Hughes and the London Handel Players
Wednesday 18 April 1-2pm - Lunchtime Series
Rachel Kelly Recital
Wednesday 18 April 7pm
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra & soloists
Thursday 19 April 7pm -
Fringe Series
Handel at Vauxhall : Music from the Pleasure Gardens
London Early Opera - Lisa Rijmer & Bridget Cunningham
Friday 20 April 6.30pm -
Fringe Series
Hasse Cajo Fabricio - modern premiere - concert performance - Ensemble Serse
Saturday 21 April
Musical Marylebone Walk with Janice Liverseidge
Saturday 21 April 7.30pm
Il furibondo - Julia Doyle & London Handel Orchestra
Tuesday 24 April 4-5pm
Pre-performance talk by Dr Ruth Smith
Tuesday 24 April 7pm
Handel Messiah HWV56 - 1742 Dublin version

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Booking dates: postal 15 January 2012 |
online 25 January | telephone 1 February 01460 54660

Catherine Hodgson
Festival Director
 
 
 Laurence Cummings
 Laurence Cummings
Adrian Butterfield
  Adrian Butterfield

Ida Falk Winland

  Ida Falk Winland
 Christine Rice
Sophie Bevan
 Sophie Bevan

Julia Doyle

 Julia Doyle

Ruby Hughes

 Ruby Hughes
Lucy Crowe
 Lucy Crowe

News
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Carole Cerasi

Sophie Junker

Emma Kirkby

La Nuova Musica

  Carole Cerasi Sophie Junker  Dame Emma Kirkby

La Nuova Musica

Christopher Ainslie

George Humphreys

Sounds Baroque

Nathan Vale

 Christopher Ainslie

George Humphreys

  Sounds Baroque

  Nathan Vale

Iestyn Davies

Christopher Lowrey

Nicholas Mulroy

Samuel Evans

 Iestyn Davies

  Christopher Lowrey

  Nicholas Mulroy

  Samuel Evans

Annabel Mountford - Il pastor fido 2010

Eleanor Dennis - Il pastor fido 2010

Christopher Lowrey - Il pastor fido 2010

Il pastor fido 2010

  Annabel Mountford
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Eleanor Dennis
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Christopher Lowrey
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Il pastor fido 2010

Ricardo Barros - Il pastor fido 2010

John McMunn & Ricardo Barros - Il pastor fido 2010

Ben Williamson & Emilie Alford - Il pastor fido 2010

Philip Jones & Lorna Bridge - Il pastor fido 2010

  Ricardo Barros
  Il pastor fido 2010

  John McMunn
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Ben Williamson
  & Emilie Alford
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Philip Jones
  & Lorna Bridge
  Il pastor fido 2010

Mary Collins & Ricardo Barros - Il pastor fido 2010

Susanna Hurrell - Il pastor fido 2010

Christopher Lowrey & Susanna Hurrell - Alessandro 2009

Susanna Hurrell - Alessandro 2009

  Mary Collins
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Susanna Hurrell
  Il pastor fido 2010

  Christopher Lowrey
  & Susanna Hurrell
  Alessandro 2009

  Susanna Hurrell
  Alessandro 2009

Christopher Lowrey - Allesandro 2009 Ruby Hughes & Madeleine Pierard - Atalanta 2008 Stephanie Lewis - Atalanta 2008 Nathan Vale & Christopher Ainslie - Poro 2007

Christopher Lowrey Alessandro 2009

Ruby Hughes & Madeleine Pierard Atalanta 2008

Stephanie Lewis Atalanta 2008

Nathan Vale & Christopher Ainslie Poro 2007





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