Baroque Giants: Handel (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

If Bach were a man of the church then Handel was a man of the theatre.

Not only in that he wrote a prodigious amount of operas, but also in that his music just seems to be deeply theatrical. Tonight’s concert includes two vibrant concerti grossi, brimming over with full and ripe orchestration, together with music from the opera 'The Faithful Shepherd'.

Overture, Saul
Concerto Grosso in B flat Op.3 No.1
Organ Concerto in D minor Op.7 No.4
Concerto Grosso in A Op.6 No.11
Il pastor fido

Laurence Cummings director
Soloists from the OAE
Concert finishes at approximately 8.45pm