Name: Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks
Start: 2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

Laurence Cummings

Soprano

Lucy Crowe

Orchestra

Academy of Ancient Music

Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Barbican Concert Hall

Public

Private

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Silete venti, HWV 242

Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348

Approved

Bass

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Contralto

Singer

Countertenor

Mezzo-soprano

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 Händel (+2 More)

Music of pure celebration as Laurence Cummings and Academy of Ancient Music ignite their 50th anniversary season with Handel’s Fireworks Music and Water Music. 

A royal court, a floating orchestra and a pyrotechnic display so dazzling that it brought London to a standstill. In early Georgian England, George Frideric Handel was the grand master of sonic pageantry, and his Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are the sound of pure celebration: as fresh, as stirring and as gloriously tuneful now as they were three centuries ago.

But if you want to hear how Handel would actually have sounded back then: well, let’s just say that no period-instrument orchestra has more of a history with these scores than the Academy of Ancient Music. Four decades ago, the AAM redefined the way we listen to Handel. Tonight, under the AAM’s ‘exhilarating’ (Evening Standard) music director Laurence Cummings, they’ll light up the sky all over again.

A free pre-concert talk will take place at 6.30pm at the Fountain Room on Level G.

Tickets for this concert are available to purchase as part of a multi-buy: see the Barbican website for more details.

English

Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks by Händel, Ó (2023/2023), Seoltóir Laurence Cummings, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid