Name: Handel the Cosmopolitan
Start: 2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: St Martin-in-the-Fields

Organization

Stage director

James Way

Instrumentalist

Rachel Podger

Soloist

Rowan Pierce

Orchestra

The Assembled Company

St Martin In the Fields

Gearmáinis

Iodáilis

Handel the Cosmopolitan

London

United Kingdom

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Handel the Cosmopolitan: Concert Händel

Public

Concert

Approved

Handel as you’ve never heard him: a genre-spanning, continent-crossing cosmopolitan, brought vividly to life by The Assembled Company.

Born in Germany, trained in Italy, and British by choice, George Frideric Handel was nothing if not cosmopolitan, and yet his music was powerfully and unmistakably his own. Founded in 2020, James Way’s dynamic new ensemble The Assembled Company thrives on that sort of creative diversity. Today they come together with Rachel Podger and Rowan Pierce – both names to be reckoned with in the world of baroque performance – to rediscover Handel’s gloriously tuneful German Arias (in a new translation by Jeremy Sams), as well as two Italian cantatas that might sound surprisingly familiar: his Messiah cantatas, containing recognisable versions of favourite music that was incorporated into the great oratorio and proving that wherever he travelled Handel never missed a trick…

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Ionstraimíocht

Ensemble