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  • Trevor Pinnock, © Photo: Peer Lindgren
    Trevor Pinnock, © Photo: Peer Lindgren
  • Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Main Hall, © Photo: Hans Roggen
    Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Main Hall, © Photo: Hans Roggen

Orchestra Essentials: Handel & Haydn

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Renew your acquaintance with two cornerstones of the orchestral repertoire. Renowned baroque and Early‐Classical specialist Trevor Pinnock conducts two works associated with London, at the head of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Handel's 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' is among the world's most popular works, and the mental picture it evokes — of boats on the Thames and delighted spectators — as well as its simultaneous grandeur and bursting joy, make its popularity easy to understand. Haydn's 'Military' Symphony is undeniably less joyful, but uses trumpets and percussion in no less evocative and stirring a manner, to conjure the sounds of battle.

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