Händel
Georg Friedrich Handel
Water Music
Concerti grossi, Op. 6 (Nos. 4 and 6)
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The English conductor Jonathan Cohen founded the Ensemble Arcangelo in 2010, with whom he has enjoyed great international success, for example at the BBC Proms, the Salzburg Festival or the Berlin Philharmonie. In the 2022/23 season, he will not only conduct Handel's opera Alcina with the Canadian ensemble Les Violons du Roy and Handel's oratorio Theodora with the Ensemble Arcangelo, but also a Handel concert evening with the Orchestra La Scintilla at Zurich Opera House. In addition to the famous Water Music, which was first performed in 1717 as part of a royal pleasure cruise on the then probably still idyllic Thames in London, the programme also includes two concerti grossi.