| Handel’s Water Music | Melbourne Symphony Orchestra |
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Evening pleasure trips on the River Thames were once a favourite diversion of London society. These leisurely entertainments were sometimes accompanied by a floating orchestra - literally, a barge-load of musicians. Handel’s music for just such an occasion - created for an aquatic escapade by George I and his party in 1717 - is the work we now know as the Water Music, some of the grandest and most splendid instrumental music of its time.
In a unique event in the MSO’s musical calendar, this all-Handel program will be conducted by Bernard Labadie, founder and Artistic Director of one of the world’s leading early music ensembles, Les Violons du Roy.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
HANDEL'S WATER MUSIC
Bernard Labadie conductor
David Hansen counter-tenor
HANDEL Solomon: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
HANDEL Giulio Cesare: Va, tacito
HANDEL Giulio Cesare: Aure, deh, per pieta
HANDEL Alcina: Suite - Overture, Musette, Menuet, Gavotte, Menuet, Gavotte
HANDEL Rodelinda: Vivi, tiranno
HANDEL Water Music (complete)
Bookings: the Arts Centre, Hamer Hall
Date/Time: Thursday 2, Friday 3 and Saturday 4 October at 8pm
Bookings: www.mso.com.au or Ticketmaster on 1300 136 166
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