Handel and Rameau
Royal dance music conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm
A royal celebration of music: Emmanuelle Haïm leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in music by court composers Handelnd Rameau, pop stars of their day.
Handel’s Water Music, written for a royal cruise along the River Thames, became an overnight hit.
Concert programme
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso op. 6 No. 1, HWV 319
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George Frideric Handel
Suite No. 3 from 'Water Music', HWV 350
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Suite from 'Dardanus'
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George Frideric Handel
Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99
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componist ntb
Toegift met solist:
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George Frideric Handel
Giulio Cesare HWV 17: "Se pietà di me non senti"
Performers
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Emmanuelle Haïm
conductor
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Lenneke Ruiten
soprano
About this concert
Imagine yourself in the royal court of Louis XV or George I. Under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays works by two eighteenth-century baroque masters who climbed to the lofty status of court composers. Rameau gave the French a reason to dance. And Handel’s Water Music, written for a royal cruise along the River Thames, became an overnight sensation. The impassioned solo cantata Il delirio amoroso by Handel will be sung by Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten, who returns just a few weeks after her debut with Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Rameau and Handel were contemporaries; both were hugely popular and each produced many pieces for kings, the nobility and influential members of the clergy. Rameau worked in the service of King Louis XV’s steward. In his operas, including the successful tragedy Dardanus, Rameau was sure to include a lot of dance music because at the French loved to dance, especially at the royal court. Handel was a cosmopolitan German of just twenty-two when he composed Il delirio amoroso, based on verses by a cardinal he had met in Rome. Handel later became the court composer for George I, the music-loving Elector of Hanover who ascended the throne as King of Great Britain.
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Imagine yourself in the royal court of Louis XV or George I. Under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays works by two eighteenth-century baroque masters who climbed to the lofty status of court composers. Rameau gave the French a reason to dance. And Handel’s Water Music, written for a royal cruise along the River Thames, became an overnight sensation. The impassioned solo cantata Il delirio amoroso by Handel will be sung by Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten, who returns just a few weeks after her debut with Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Rameau and Handel were contemporaries; both were hugely popular and each produced many pieces for kings, the nobility and influential members of the clergy. Rameau worked in the service of King Louis XV’s steward. In his operas, including the successful tragedy Dardanus, Rameau was sure to include a lot of dance music because at the French loved to dance, especially at the royal court. Handel was a cosmopolitan German of just twenty-two when he composed Il delirio amoroso, based on verses by a cardinal he had met in Rome. Handel later became the court composer for George I, the music-loving Elector of Hanover who ascended the throne as King of Great Britain.