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Saturday 3rd December 2005
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The Ways of Zion do Mourn |
G.F.Handel |
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Dettingen Te Deum |
G.F.Handel |
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Excerpts from The Water Musick |
G.F.Handel |
Russell Scott, baritone
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Saturday 3rd December 2005 |
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Russell Scott, baritone |
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The three works performed in this concert show the highly successful public side of the composer George Frederic Handel. Always in the public eye, and often the recipient of royal and aristocratic patronage, much of Handel's finest music was written for public occasions. The Anthem The Ways of Zion do Mourn was written in 1737 for the funeral Queen Caroline. This royal occasion finds the composer at his most inventive and most lyrical, betraying a deep emotion at the loss of both friend and patron. Six years later, in 1743, Handel composed a Te Deum to celebrate the victory of an alliance of English, German and Austria armies over the French at Dettingen - the last occasion a King of England led his troops into battle! This work is quite a different Handel, with martial orchestration of trumpets and drums against the choir. In the early part of his life in London, Handel, in seeking to renew the patronage of the Royal Family, composed three suites of orchestral pieces to accompany an evening's river excursion by the King and members of his court. This evening's concert includes excerpts from, mainly, the third suite in D major, with horns, trumpets and drums added to the orchestra which, on July 17th 1717, was conveyed down the Thames on a ``City Company's Barge". |
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Tickets prices are £12.00, or £10.00 for concessions, available at the door. |
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7:30pm, St Peter's Church, Acton Green, Southfield Road, Chiswick, London, W4 |
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