Handel, Friends And Rivals

handel, friends and rivals
songs, cantatas and instrumental music performed by the stanesby players
The Stanesby Players
Elin Harries - soprano
Andrew Collis - recorders
Yeo Yat-Soon - harpsichord
An evening of music celebrating the music of Handel, D Scarlatti who he met on his first Italian tour and became a lifelong friend, Bononcini, whose constant rivalry with Handel inspired the nicknames 'Tweeledum and Tweedledee', the opera composer Hasse, who contributed to Handel's bankruptcy and the English composers Stanley and Arne.
Doors open at 7pm, concert starts at 7.30. There will be a pay bar before the event and during the interval.