Thursday 12 June, 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Director: Andrew Beer
Handel Water Music (selections)
Tippett (arr. Manning) Time Past, Time Present, Time Future
King George I, with a small assortment of aristocratic guests, sat in a boat floating up the Thames. Handel, and an orchestra, sat in another, entertaining the royal party with a new piece called, inevitably, Water Music.
Nowadays it’s usually played on dry land, but never like this, interspersed with Tippett’s calmly radiant music for strings. Across a gulf of 250 years, the two composers engage in a deeply moving dialogue with each other.
