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Thursday 15 March 7-9.30pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Handel Singing Competition Final 2012
Laurence Cummings conductor
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield leader
Adjudicators: Ian Partridge (Chairman) | Catherine Denley
Michael George | Patrizia Kwella | Rodney Milnes
Tickets for the Final: reserved seating
£40 Nave rows A-D
£35 Nave rows E-J
£30 Nave rows K-M
£12 Side Nave - restricted view
£25 Rt SA rows A-C
£25 Lft SA rows A-B
£12 Side Aisles rows D-N & C-K - restricted view/no view
£25 Gallery front row
£12 Gallery front row - restricted view
£10 Rear Gallery - no view
Due to installation works on the new organ at St George's the North Gallery will not be in use and will appear as reserved.
£5 Students
Click here for details of how to enter the Competition.
Friday 2 March 6-10pm
Handel Singing Competition Semi-Final
Tickets: £10 unreserved seating; students free
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SOUTHBANK SINFONIA
BAROQUE
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Friday 16 March 7-9pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Ruby Hughes soprano
Adrian Butterfield director
Michael Berman conductor
of Vox Musica
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque
Gloria
Handel: Overture 'Samson'
Rameau: Suite from 'Les Paladins'
Zelenka: Miserere in Cmin, ZWV57
Vivaldi: Concerto for two trumpets, RV781
Muffat: Armonico Tributo No 1
Zelenka: Gloria from Missa Votiva, ZWV18
southbanksinfonia.co.uk
The daring Bohemian composer Zelenka frames this programme of music from the time of Handel, with works
from the great musical centres of Europe.
Tickets: £12 unreserved seating; students free |
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Saturday 17 March from 11am
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1
Sing Coronation Anthems
Laurence Cummings conductor
Singers from the Royal College of Music
Little Baroque Company
11am-1pm Choir only
1 1/2 hour lunch break for the Choir
2-2.30pm Orchestra and soloists
2.30-5.30pm Orchestra and Choir
7-8.45pm Performance - including an Interval
Enjoy an inspirational day singing The Coronation Anthems
with soloists from the Royal College of Music and conducted by Laurence Cummings, in the intimate surroundings of the
Foundling Museum.
foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Tickets: £25 for Choir members. Numbers are limited.
You can book online or by telephone
on 01460 54660.
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HANDEL AND PEPUSCH
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Tuesday 20 March from 2.30pm
North London Collegiate School
Canons, Canons Drive, Edgware
Middlesex, HA8 7RJ &
St Lawrence, Little Stanmore,
Whitchurch Lane, Canons Park, HA8 7QQ
Handel and Pepusch at Cannons
2.30-4.30pm - Masterclass at the North London Collegiate School
4.30-5.30pm - Free time for the audience and friends to see the garden and visit Canons
5.30-6.30pm - Friends reception
7-9pm - Concert at St Lawrence, Little Stanmore
Handel: Chandos Anthem No 7,
'My song shall be alway', HWV252
Pepusch: Anthem 'for the Duke of Chandos Chapel at Edgware' O Praise the Lord, laud ye the name of the Lord
Handel: Duet: Langue geme e sospira, HWV188
and Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4, BWV1049,
1st movement (performed by students from NLCS)
Handel: Chandos Anthem No 11, 'Let God arise', HWV256a
Adrian Butterfield conductor
Choir of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
and orchestra from the Royal College of Music
Tickets: £15 - Concert and to include the Masterclass
and other events. Everyone is warmly invited to attend all day.
nlcs.org.uk
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Tuesday 20 March 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Sara Deborah Struntz violin
Erik Dippenaar harpsichord
Jadran Duncumb theorbo
Sorrowful Mysteries
A Contemplation on Christ's suffering and death
This programme is focused around the Five Sorrowful Mysteries from Biber's Rosary Sonatas, interspersed with liturgical keyboard works and improvisations. Join the performers in this musical meditation on events which are at the heart of Christian faith – the final hours of Jesus’ earthly life and his way to the cross.
Tickets: £8 unreserved
seating; students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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COLLEGIUM
FLORIDUM
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Wednesday 21 March 7-8.45pm
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL
(please note venue)
Collegium floridum
Dada Ruža director
Canite et Psallite
An special evening performance by this young, prize-winning, Croatian choir of early sacred music by Croatian composers and sacred and secular songs in the Croation folk idiom.
Composers include Ivan Lukacic, Vinko Jelic, Francesco Sponga Usper, Johann Baptist Vanhal Dada Ruža, Mato Lešcan, V Žganec, Tomislav Uhlik, Emil Cossetto, Josip Štolcer Slavenski, Franjo Dugan and Handel.
Vocal ensemble Collegium floridum is the newest chamber group at the Varaždin School of Music, which is one of the oldest institutions for music education in Croatia, with the tradition reaching back to 1828. It is especially renowned for its prize-winning choirs.
Tickets: £10
unreserved seating; students free
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HANDEL
RICCARDO PRIMO
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Richard I is to marry Costanza,
a Spanish princess, but she is shipwrecked
near Cyprus. Her rescuer, Isacio, falls
for her and plans
to keep her and send Richard his daughter Pulcheria instead –
notwithstanding that she is already
betrothed to Oronte, Prince of Syria.
There follows the usual confusion, cross-dressing and conflict that make for a classic Handelian night out. Written for the 1727 Royal Academy season, Riccardo Primo was also a nod to the new king, George II, who fancied himself
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Monday 26 to to Thursday 29 March
7-10.30pm
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music,
Prince Consort Road, SW7
Handel Riccardo primo, re d’Inghilterra HWV23
Fully staged production in collaboration with the
Royal College of Music International Opera School.
Laurence Cummings conductor
James Robert Carson director
Adam Wiltshire designer
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield leader
There have been a few changes to the cast.
26 & 28 March
Riccardo primo Rupert Enticknap
Costanza Eleanor Dennis
Berardo Timothy Nelson
Isacio Edward Grint
Pulcheria Emilie Renard
Oronte Fiona Mackenzie
27 & 29 March
Riccardo primo Jake Arditti
Costanza Katherine Crompton
Berardo Timothy Nelson
Isacio Edward Grint
Pulcheria Hannah Sandison (was Fredriksson)
Oronte Fiona Mackenzie (was Victoria Gray)
Tickets: reserved seating
£50 Front Stalls rows A-G
£55 Back Stalls rows H-J
£55 Stalls Circle row A
£50 Stalls Circle rows B-C
£45 Dress Circle row A
£40 Dress Circle rows B-C
£25 Upper Circle rows ABCD
£20 Slips on all levels
Talks on Riccardo Primo by James Robert Carson on
28 March and by
Katie Hawks on 29 March
Britten Theatre 4-5pm; advance booking required;
free entry.
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INDIAN TWILIGHT
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Tuesday 27 March 7-8.45pm
Fringe Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Stephen Bull violin
Udit Pankhania tabla
Anupa Sahdev tanpura
Indian Twilight
Ragas from an era of change: India in the 18th century.
Central to this transition was the singer and composer
Niyamat Khan (1670-1748), known as Sadarang, whose
compositions, encapsulating in a few lines the characteristics
of a raga, are still sung today as the structure round which singers weave their improvisations.
Tickets: £10 unreserved seating; students free
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Wednesday 28 March 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Keri Fuge soprano
Winner of the Michael Oliver Prize 2011
Asako Ogawa harpsichord
Nikolay Ginov baroque cello
Alex McCartney lute and theorbo
By that sin fell the angels
Handel:
Ah! crudel from Rinaldo, HWV7
Non disperar from Giulio Cesare, HWV17
Se'l mio duol from Rodelinda HWV19
Purcell:
The Blessed Virgin’s
Expostulation
Sweeter than Roses
Intermezzo
Lully - d’Anglebert: Passacaille
Handel:
Se pieta di me non senti from Giulio Cesare
Credete al mio dolore from Alcina, HWV34
Endless Pleasures, Endless Love from Semele, HWV58
kerifuge.co.uk
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating; students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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ORGAN RECITAL
ROBERT WOOLLEY
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Wednesday 28 March 7-8.45pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Talk by Dominic Gwynn on the chamber
organ in Georgian musical life.
The Power of Music
Organ Recital by Robert Woolley
The organ is based on the chamber organs of Richard Bridge and Thomas Parker, who built the organ which belonged to Charles Jennens, the librettist of Messiah, which still exists close to its original condition.
The programme will include works by:
Handel - Thomas Roseingrave
(organist of St George's 1725-1737)
William Walond - Maurice Greene
John James - Starling Goodwin
and James Nares
goetzegwynn.co.uk
Tickets: £12 unreserved seating; students free |
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Thursday 29 March 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Trinity Laban Baroque Orchestra
Walter Reiter director
Kristina Chalmovska cello
Blow: Suite from Venus and Adonis
Muffat: Concerto Grosso No 5 in D Major (Saeculum)
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto
Handel: Concerto Grosso in A minor Op 6 No 4
trinitylaban.ac.uk
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating; students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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TRINITY LABAN
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Friday 30 March 1-2pm
This concert has been moved from 27 March -
we will contacting all those who have booked in advance.
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
The Regent's Soloists
Laura Piras flute
George Clifford violin
Kate Conway cello
Nathaniel Mander harpsichord
Leclair: Deuxième Recreation de Musique
Foucquet: Le Carillon de Cythère
Duphly: La Forqueray
Balbastre: La Lugeac
Telemann: Sixième quatuor en mi mineur
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating; students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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SOLOISTS
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GUILDHALL
BAROQUE
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Friday 30 March 7-8.45pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
The Inchanted Forrest
Guildhall Baroque Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield director
Geminiani: The Inchanted Forrest
Handel:
Harp Concerto, HWV294
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
gsmd.ac.uk
Tickets: £10 unreserved seating; students free
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MUSIC, LAW
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Tuesday 3 April 5.30-6.45pm
Festival Walk One
Meet at Holborn Tube Station
Janice Liverseidge leads four walks linked to Handel, his contemporaries and life in Georgian London. All take place just before a festival concert and finish in time to take
your seat.
Music, Law and Medicine
from Holborn to the Foundling Museum An opportunity to see the site of the former Lincoln Inn’s Fields Theatre where operas by Purcell, Gay and Handel were performed before making our way through historic parts of legal London. On our way we see connections with the city’s medical advances and in particular the development of the first children’s hospital and first home for abandoned babies. We complete our walk in time for the festival concert at the Foundling Museum.
Tickets: £8 or £6 if you book
for Around Handel on 3 April
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AROUND HANDEL
CAROLE CERASI
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Tuesday 3 April 7-8.45pm
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1
Around Handel
Carole Cerasi harpsichord
Handel: Suite in B flat major HWV434
Telemann: Ouverture composé par Mr Melante in E flat major, TWV55
Buxtehude: Ciaccona in E minor, BuxWV160
Zachow: Suite in B minor
Roseingrave: Introduction in G minor
Scarlatti:
Sonata in G major, K13
Sonata in G minor, K30
Handel: Suite No 3 in D minor HWV428
Rameau: Gavotte & Doubles in A minor
Mozart:
Suite in C major, KV399
A Little Gigue in G major, KV574
carolecerasi.com
Tickets: £20 reserved seating;
Interval drinks available
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BACH ST MATTHEW PASSION
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Friday 6 April 2.30-6.30pm (please note time)
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Bach St Matthew Passion HWV244
Nathan Vale Evangelist
George Humphreys Christus | Ida Falk Winland soprano
Emilie Renard mezzo-soprano | Edward Grint bass
Laurence Cummings conductor
London Handel Orchestra | Adrian Butterfield leader
Choir of St George's
JS Bach's St Matthew Passion performed as originally intended as part of Vespers, including the congregational hymns and the Jacob Handl Gallus motet, that Bach himself chose for the Good Friday service.
Tickets: reserved seating
£40 Nave rows A-D
£35 Nave rows E-J
£30 Nave rows K-M
£12 Side Nave - restricted view
£25 Rt SA rows A-C
£25 Lft SA rows A-B
£12 Side Aisles rows D-N & C-K - restricted view/no view
£30 Gallery front row
£12 Gallery front row - restricted view
£10 Rear Gallery - no view
Due to installation works on the new organ at St George's the North Rear Gallery will not be in use and will appear as reserved. The Front row will still be accessible.
The Passion is sung in German
and finishes at approximately 6.30pm.
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HSC 2011
FINALISTS'
SHOWCASE
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Wednesday 11 April 7-9pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
HSC 2011 Finalists' Showcase
Stefanie True soprano | Keri Fuge soprano
Emilie Renard (nee Alford) mezzo-soprano
Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano | Carleen Ebbs soprano
London Handel Orchestra | Adrian Butterfield director
Handel
Cantata: Tu fedel? Tu costante? HWV171
Emilie Renard mezzo-soprano
Amarilli vezzosa 'Il duello amoroso' HWV82
Carleen Ebbs soprano and Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano
Cantata: Armida abbandonata HWV105
Keri Fuge soprano
Motet: Silete venti HWV242
Stefanie True soprano
Tickets: £15 unreserved seating; students £5
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BOOKING
opens
postal
15 January
2012
online
25 January
telephone booking opens
1 February
01460 54660
General
information
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Thursday 12 April 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Stefanie True soprano
Winner of the HSC 2011
Anthony Romaniuk harpsichord
Benjamin Glorieux baroque cello
Handel: Partenza, HWV168
Vivaldi:
Cantata: Par che tardo, RV662
Cello Sonata No 3 in A minor, RV43
Handel: Cantata: Sans y penser, HWV155
Montéclair: Le triomphe de la Constance
stefanietrue.weebly.com
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating; students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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MAYFAIR WALK
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Thursday 12 April 5.45–6.45pm
Festival Walk Two
Meet at Bond Street Tube Station Janice Liverseidge leads four walks linked to Handel, his contemporaries and life in Georgian London. All take place just before a festival concert and finish in time to take your seat.
Mayfair Walk – from Bond Street to the Grosvenor Chapel
Discover the home of the Society for Decay’d Musicians before paying a visit to Handel’s main London home and learning about the history behind two major squares, home to wealthy families during the eighteenth century. We explore the sad history behind one of the area’s workhouses before making our way to the Grosvenor Chapel for the evening’s concert.
Tickets: £8 or £6 if you book for
Madness of Love on 12 April
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INTERNATIONAL
BAROQUE
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Thursday 12 April 7-8.45pm
Fringe Series
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W1
(please note venue)
The Madness of Love
Mercedes Arcuri soprano
Johannes Pramsohler director and violin soloist
International Baroque Players
Handel: Overture to Orlando, HWV31
Vivaldi: Concerto in G major Op 4 No 12
from La Stravaganza, RV298
Handel: Suite Terpsicore, London 1713
Handel: Il Delirio Amoroso, HWV99
internationalbaroqueplayers.com
Tickets: £12 unreserved seating; students free |
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HANDEL
IL PASTOR FIDO
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Launch concert for LNM's World première recording on the harmonia mundi USA label - concert performance
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Friday 13 April 7-9.30pm
St George's, Hanover Square,
St George Street, W1
Handel Il pastor fido HWV8 - 1712 version
Amarilli Lucy Crowe
Mirtillo Anna Dennis
Eurilla Katherine Manley
Dorinda Ciara Hendrick
Silvio Clint van der Linde
Tirenio Lisandro Abadie
David Bates director
La Nuova Musica
Tickets: reserved seating
£35 Nave rows A-D
£30 Nave rows E-J
£25 Nave rows K-M
£12 Side Nave - restricted view
£20 Rt SA rows A-C
£20 Lft SA rows A-B
£12 Side Aisles rows D-N & C-K - restricted view/no view
£20 Gallery front row
£12 Gallery front row - restricted view
£10 Rear Gallery - no view
Due to installation works on the new organ at St George's the North Rear Gallery will not be in use and will appear as reserved. The Front row will still be accessible.
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Monday 16 April 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Emilie Renard (née Alford) mezzo-soprano
Winner of the Audience Prize HSC 2011
Eleanor Dennis soprano & Dewar Quartet
Christopher Bucknall harpsichord
Colin Scobie and Benjamin Norris violins
Patricia Ramirez Reinoso viola
George Ross cello
Handel's Soprano Castrati
Salda quercia from Arianna in Creta, HWV32
Qual piacer a un cor pietoso from Agrippina, HWV6
Se si vanta from Alessandro Severo, HWVA13
S'armi il fato from Teseo, HWV9
Mi lusinga il dolce affetto from Alcina, HWV34
from Act II Serse, HWV40
Duets:
L'amerete?
Se bramate d'amar chi vi sdegna
Aria: È gelosia quella tiranna
Caro, cara, ti dono in pegno il cor from Il pastor fido, HWV8
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating - students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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SOUNDS BAROQUE
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Monday 16 April 7-8.45pm
Fringe Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Anna Dennis soprano
Andrew Radley counter-tenor
Julian Perkins director/harpsichord
Sounds Baroque
Conversazioni - Cantatas from a Cardinal's Court
The programme will include works by Handel, Caldara
and Alessandro Scarlatti's duet cantata Questo silenzo
ombroso.
soundsbaroque.com
Tickets: £12 unreserved seating; students free
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Tuesday 17 April 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Rêveries Musicales
Leo Duarte oboe/recorder
Julia Kuhn violin
Jonathan Rees cello/viola da gamba
Tom Foster harpsichord
Handel:
Sonata in F major, Op 1, No 11, HWV369
Sonata in G minor, HWV364b
Sonata in B flat major, HWV357
Sonata in F major, Op 1, No 12, HWV370
Suite No 4 in D minor, HWV437
Trio Sonata in B flat major, HWV388
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating - students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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REVERIES
MUSICALES
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HANDEL AND
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Tuesday 17 April 5.30–6.45pm
Festival Walk Three
Meet at St James’s Palace
Janice Liverseidge leads four walks linked to Handel, his contemporaries and life in Georgian London. All take place just before a festival concert and finish in time to take your seat.
Handel, his patrons and the Royal
Family – a walk around St James’s
The truly blue blood area of London – here we’ll learn about the relationship between Handel and the royal family and the music he wrote for them. After seeing the palace and the park we’ll view the shops and clubs frequented by royalty, complete with secret galleried inn, before discovering one of the most fashionable residential squares of Georgian London. We then make our way to St George’s Church for our evening concert.
Tickets: £8 or £6 if you book for Orphée on 17 April
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Tuesday 17 April 7-9pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Ruby Hughes soprano
Winner of the HSC 2009
Rachel Brown flute/recorder
Adrian Butterfield violin
Katherine Sharman viola da gamba
Laurence Cummings harpsichord
Orphée
Handel: Trio Sonata in A major, Op 5 No 1 HWV396
Clérambault: Orphée
Rameau: Cinquième Pièce de Clavecin in D major/minor
Couperin: Concert Royal in D major
Handel: Cantata Del bel idolo mio HWV104
Rameau: Orphée
Tickets: £15 unreserved seating; students free
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Wednesday 18 April 1-2pm
Lunchtime Series
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Rachel Kelly mezzo-soprano
Finalist HSC 2011
Matthew Fletcher harpsichord
Vivaldi: Sposa son disprezzata from Bajazet, RV703
Purcell:
Dear Pretty Youth from The Tempest, Z631
Music for a while from The Fairy Queen, Z629
Bess of Bedlam
Bach: Kommt, ihr angefochtnen Sünder Nr 5, BWV30
Handel:
She’s gone…New scenes of joy
Con saggio tuo consiglio
Scherza infida from Ariodante, HWV33
Sta nell’ircana from Alcina, HWV34
Tickets: £8 unreserved seating; students free
Supported by Friends of the LHF
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Wednesday 18 April 7-9pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Soloists from the
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
Baroque Orchestra
Laurence Cummings director
The English Taste
Handel: Concerto Grosso in Bb major, HWV312
Scarlatti: Concerto Grosso in C major, No 9
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Handel: Suite from the Water Music, HWV348-350
Corelli /Geminiani: La Folia
Handel: Cecilia volgi un sguardo, HWV89
A very English programme of music by Handel and his contemporaries. The rarely performed cantata Cecilia volgi un sguardo is performed alongside concertos and a suite from the newly discovered reordering of the Water Music.
Tickets: £10 unreserved seating; students free
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Thursday 19 April 7-9pm
Fringe Series
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W1
Handel at Vauxhall:
Music from the Pleasure Gardens
Lisa Rijmer soprano
Daniel Moult organ
Bridget Cunningham conductor
London Early Opera
With narrations by David E. Coke A display of sensational music by Handel, Arne, Worgan and other Vauxhall contemporaries to bring life to the musical importance of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.
David E. Coke author of the critically acclaimed 'Vauxhall Gardens: A History' (published by Yale University) with
co-author, Dr Alan Borg, will set the historical scene of musical life in these lavish gardens.
www.londonearlyopera.com
www.vauxhallgardens.com
Tickets: £15 unreserved seating; students £7.50
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Friday 20 April 6.30-10.30pm
Fringe Series
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W1
(please note venue and time
Two Intervals - please bring refreshments with you)
Hasse Cajo Fabricio 1732
Cajo Fabricio Daniel Wellings
Pirro Calvin Wells
Sestia Elisabeth Fleming
Bircenna Sylvie Bedouelle
Volusio Catharine Rogers
Cinea John McMunn
Turio Joseph Bolger
Ensemble Serse | Oliver Webber leader
Modern day première - concert performance
Tickets: £20 unreserved seating
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MUSICAL
MARYLEBONE
WALK
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Saturday 21 April 6-7.15pm
Festival Walk Four
Meet at Baker Street Tube station
Janice Liverseidge leads four walks linked to Handel, his contemporaries and life in Georgian London. All take place just before a festival concert and finish in time to take your seat.
Musical Marylebone Walk
Tonight’s early evening walk provides a wealth of insights into the area’s musical connections, from the music schools and
burial place of the great hymn writer Charles Wesley through to the delights of the pleasure gardens frequented by Handel and
the famous eighteenth century shell grotto. In addition we’ll see where other more contemporary composers have lived. We end our musical interlude at Wigmore Hall.
Tickets: £8 or £6 if you book for Il furibondo on 21 April - please let us know your Wigmore ticket number.
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Saturday 21 April 7.30-9.30pm
(please note time)
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, W1
Julia Doyle soprano
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield director/violin
Il furibondo
Geminani: Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 6 in E minor
Festing: Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 8 in D major
Handel: Arias from Alcina HWV34
Tornami and Ama, sospira
Corelli arr. Geminiani: Concerto Grosso Op 5
No 3 in C major
Avison: Violin Concerto Op 4 No 1 in D minor
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 12 in B minor HWV330
Lampe: Arias from The Dragon of Wantley
Handel: Arias from Ariodante HWV33
'Il Furibondo' - Francesco Geminiani, Mrs. Arne and the Concerto Grosso in England. Tartini described Italian violinist and composer Francesco Geminiani as 'Il Furibondo' ('the wild man'). From his arrival in England in 1714 he, alongside Handel, dominated the musical scene, performing and composing and helping to establish in this country the popularity of the music of his teacher, Arcangelo Corelli,
and of the concerto grosso form. He was also an important teacher and one of his most renowned pupils was the soprano, Cecilia Young, for whom Handel wrote several important roles and who later married Thomas Arne.
Tickets: reserved seating
Tickets can be bought from the Wigmore Hall only from
31 January. wigmore-hall.org.uk. This link will take you their website.
Please note Festival subscriptions and student discounts will not apply when buying from the Wigmore Hall. Standby tickets and Westminster ResCard and disabled discounts (under Wigmore Hall’s policy) will be available.
Wigmore Box Office 020 7935 2141
£30 Stalls a rows C-M
£25 Stalls b rows A-B & N-P
£20 Stalls c rows Q-S & BB/CC
£15 Stalls d rows T-X & AA, Wh/ch
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MESSIAH
TALK
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Tuesday 24 April 4-5pm
The Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, London, W1
Dr Ruth Smith gives a talk on Messiah in the elegant surroundings of The Arts Club.
Tickets: Free entry but must be booked in advance.
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For a dramatic finale we perform the 1742 Dublin version of Messiah to celebrate 270 years of this glorious work.
Tuesday 24 April 7-10pm
St George's, Hanover Square, St George Street, W1
Handel Messiah
1742 Dublin version
Sophie Bevan soprano
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Stuart Jackson tenor
Lisandro Abadie bass
Laurence Cummings conductor
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield leader
London Handel Singers
Tickets: reserved seating
£60 Nave rows A-D
£55 Nave rows E-J
£50 Nave rows K-M
£15 Side Nave - restricted view
£45 Rt SA A-C
£45 Lft SA A-B
£15 Side Aisles D-N & C-K - restricted view/no view
£45 Gallery front row
£15 Gallery front row - restricted view
£10 Rear Gallery - no view
Due to installation works on the new organ at St George's the North Rear Gallery will not be in use and will appear as reserved. The Front row will still be accessible.
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Online booking will open on 25 January at 10am
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