Thursday December 13, 2018 time 21.00

Off-season Christmas Concert

FAENZA Sant’Ippolito Church

ROYAL MUSIC: PURCELL & HÄNDEL
Suite da The Fairy Queen e Water Music

CAMERATA ACCADEMICA

PAOLO FALDI direction

Henry Purcell

Suite from The Fairy Queen

George Friedrich Händel

Water Music

In the sumptuous concert the Anglo-Italian style and the French overture meet in a syncretic manner, in a framework of regal majesty. Purcell, near the end of his career, with The Fairy Queen (London 1692), here proposed in a suite form, composed some of his most beautiful theatrical music, exhibiting the contrapuntal skill and the assimilation of Italian influences. Händel composed Water Music at the request of King George I performing it on the Thames, with a wealth of instruments which, besides string and continuous, requires at least one flute, two oboes, a bassoon, two horns, two trumpets, strings and continuo.

Entry with free offer for the restoration of Bassetto Manfredo

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