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/ September 2008
Handel’s Fire & Water
the world’s most famous party musik |
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Guest director
Alfredo Bernardini (Italy)
"No one likes a party more than Alfredo – behind the unassuming façade
lies a mischievous man with a zest for life and celebrations! He is the
perfect person to lead the Orchestra on this merry romp."
Paul Dyer
Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music stopped London in its tracks when they
were first played. Rarely performed in the same concert, here is your chance to hear
these two great works together.
So popular was Alfredo Bernardini in 2006, with his cheeky sense of humour and
tremendous energy, we had to have him back for this celebration of the most famous
party music. Fired by Bernardini’s consummate skill and Italian exuberance, the Orchestra
will relish the challenge of this grand tribute to Handel and his masterpieces.
Fit for a king, the Water Music was first performed in 1717 for George I by fifty musicians
floating down the Thames on a barge – the river teeming with boats, including the royal flotilla.
The King loved it so much, he had the musicians play it three times over!
The festival continues with the rousing Music for the Royal Fireworks, written in celebration
of victory in the Austro–Spanish war in 1749. An all-time Handel favourite, the rehearsal alone
was attended by 12 000 people and caused London’s first ever traffic jam. Joyous and
highly-charged with the glorious trumpet calls and swell of horns, oboes and bassoons, this
work will get your blood pumping!
Program
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Water Music, Suite in D major, HWV 349 |
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Water Music, Suite in G major and minor, HWV 348 |
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Water Music, Suite in F, HWV 348 |
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Music for the Royal Fireworks |
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