Sun, Oct 13 Leonardo García Alarcón conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bach and Handel
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Leonardo García Alarcón is back to conduct the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Handel’s festive Music for the Royal Fireworks and masterworks by Johann Sebastian Bach .
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Orchestra, Early Music, Vocal Music
The Concertgebouw Orchestra takes flight in Baroque music when Leonardo García Alarcón is conducting. After his impressive first appearance in 2022, the charismatic Argentine conductor returns, weaving works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks into a festive whole, just as Bach himself would do on Friday evenings at Leipzig’s Café Zimmermann. Andreas Wolf’s rich, round bass is heard in a number of phenomenal arias from the secular cantatas (chamber operas) which Bach wrote in the same period.
To celebrate the signing of the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, King George II organised a massive fireworks display. Despite it all going up in flames and the crowds fleeing, Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, written for the occasion, was an instant success and even saved the monarch’s reputation. Still very popular to this day, particularly for its well-loved second movement – the peaceful Air for strings – is Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite. Pure bliss!
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Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
Aria's (from Cantate 'Zerreisset, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft', BWV 205)
Sinfonia (from Cantata 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats', BWV 42)
Music for the Royal Fireworks in D major, HWV 351
Aria's (from Cantate ‘Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde’, BWV 201)