Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: Overture Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: Alla hornpipe Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: Minuet ...

Handel's Water Music is made up of three orchestral suites, written for an outdoor performance for King George I on the Thames. Handel composed his wonderfully jolly Water Music around 1717. and it ...

Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: 1. Ouverture (Grave - Allegro) Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: 2. Adagio e staccato Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: 3a. Allegro ...

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One of the salient advantages of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s so-called split-orchestra weeks is that they bring us Baroque specialists such as Bernard Labadie who know how to infuse the playing ...

The coronation of King Charles is tomorrow so today we’re playing regal and royal music of coronations and other imperial activities throughout the day. Including a suite of Handel's "Water Music" ...

Time to board a royal barge up the River Thames... There's plenty of famous Baroque music in today's show - a bit of last-minute inspiration for your vote in this year's Classic 100. Maybe Handel's ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts two suites of Handel's ...

Think this election season is full of political stunts? They have nothing on King George I. Looking to one-up his popular heir, the British monarch tapped George Frideric Handel — like King George, a ...

Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and conductor Ton Koopman play the Water Music, Suite No. 2, by Handel.

George Frideric Handel's Water Music premiered in 1717 after King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The composition is to form part of the soundtrack for the spectacle of the Thames ...

It is nearly 300 years since George I commissioned Handel to write some occasional music for his ceremonial barge journey down the Thames. This performance does not reproduce that event — the Water ...