Quartets
Op71 No1 in B flat major Op64 No5 in D major ("The Lark")
Op77 No2 In F major

To celebrate the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Haydn the Revolutionary Drawing Room performs three of his great string quartets, two of them written for London audiences and the third his last complete work in the genre.  
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Thursday 12 March
Peacock Room, Trinity College of Music,
King Charles Court, Old Royal Naval
College, Greenwich, London
The English Organ Concerto
in the 18th Century
In Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno of 1707
Handel included a Sonata for organ and orchestra which is the earliest known music for solo keyboard with orchestral accompaniment.

From the mid-1730s he began to incorporate organ concertos between the acts of his oratorios and, as a result, he is often credited with ‘inventing’ the organ concerto. This day, in which the superb 2002 William Drake organ built in the English Eighteenth-Century style will be employed, seeks to place Handel’s much performed and recorded concertos in the context of the much less frequently heard examples by his English  contemporaries such as William Hayes, John Hook and John Stanley.

Student organists will work with James Johnstone and instrumentalists from Trinity College of Music’s Early Music Department. A partnership between London Handel Festival, the Royal College of Organists and Trinity College of Music 10am–1pm Masterclass with soloists 2–5pm Open rehearsal 6.30pm Pre-concert talk by Prof Donald Burrows 7.30-8.30pm Concert