Name: Handel: L’allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato
Start: 2023-10-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago

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English Baroque Soloists

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Monteverdi Choir

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

St Martin In the Fields

Direzione d'orchestra

Dinis Sousa

Cantante

Alex Ashworth

Soloist

Samantha Clarke

Hilary Cronin

Sarah Denbee

Jonathan Hanley

Bethany Horak-Hallett

Frederick Long

Alison Ponsford Hill

Nick Pritchard

Handel: L’allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato

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St Martin-in-the-Fields

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Carnegie Hall

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Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago

Handel: L’allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato: L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato Händel

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L'Allegro, il Pensieroso ed il Moderato

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Our 2023 season celebrating John Eliot Gardiner’s 80th birthday culminates with a sensational tour to the US. The Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists will perform Handel’s pastoral ode L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato alongside J.S. Bach’s awe-inspiring Mass in B Minor, before returning to our London home, St Martin-in-the-Fields.


Programme:
Handel - L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Handel’s secular work L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato is one of his most inventive, varied and characteristically English works evoking contrasting emotions of the human condition, which creates a synergy of Enlightenment reason.

‘The sympathy with English life, English music and the English landscape, both rural and urban, makes L’Allegro the greatest tribute Handel ever paid to the land of his adoption.’ - John Eliot Gardiner

As a farmer passionate about the English Countryside, there is no one more suited to conduct Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso et il Moderato than John Eliot Gardiner. Last recorded by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in 1981, we look forward to bringing a fresh perspective to this significant work.

L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1740) is one of Handel’s most unusual works. Despite its Italian title, it uses a completely English text, much of it written a century earlier by the 22-year-old poet John Milton, to explore the contrasting moods of Mirth (L’Allegro) and Melancholy (il Penseroso), eventually advocating a ‘middle way’ of Moderation. Milton’s poetry was suggested to Handel by his friend the philosopher James Harris, who set about rearranging the poems to create a convincing musical structure; Handel himself had the idea of a final section to unite Milton’s poems into ‘one Moral Design’. The libretto was refined by Charles Jennens (better known as the compiler of the text for Messiah).

This poetic allegory yielded some of Handel’s most inventive and colourful music. The text focuses on English rural and urban life that would have been familiar to Handel: milkmaids and shepherds, warbling birds, the cricket on the hearth, the ‘busy hum’ of ‘populous cities’, the thrill of the hunt, tongue-in-cheek references to theatrical performances of Ben Jonson and Shakespeare – all come to life thanks to the composer’s imaginative use of the orchestra and singers. The final ‘Moderato’ section culminates in one of Handel’s most sublime duets, evoking nothing less than the dawn of the age of Enlightenment.

This riotous variety of moods and images will be celebrated by the Monteverdi Choir and a team of brilliant young solo singers as well as by the English Baroque Soloists – the piece has notable solos for horn, flute, oboe, bassoon, organ, bells and cello.

English

Handel: L’allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato by Händel, Da (2023/2023), Direttore d'orchestra Dinis Sousa, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, Chicago, Stati Uniti

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