London Early Opera

Handel at Vauxhall, Vol. 1

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Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212042823
Catnr: SIGCD 428
Release date: 10 June 2016
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Signum Classics
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SIGCD 428
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10 June 2016
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About the album

This second album by London Early Opera contains a treasure trove of pieces by Handel, Thomas Arne, and John Hebden. All compositions on this album center around the Vauxhall Gardens- a now-forgotten entertainment of the era. The London Early Opera is conducted by Bridget Cunningham, and this recording features organist Daniel Moult.
Een uitstekende reconstructie van de muziek in de Vauxhall Gardens
London Early Opera komt na hun debuutalbum Händel in Italy Vol.1 met een schat aan muziek van Georg Friedrich Händel en zijn tijdgenoten Thomas Arne en John Hebden, gericht op de Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens – een kermis van muziek en vermaak die bezoekers bijna 200 jaar aangenaam bezig hield. Het album bevat uitvoeringen van hoge kwaliteit, gebaseerd op vele uren aan gedetailleerd onderzoek.

Händel at Vauxhall, Vol. 1 vormt een reconstructie van de eerste akte van een typisch avondconcert in Vauxhall Gardens rond de jaren 1740, toen het programma meestal een set van 16 werken bevatte, waaronder een openingsstuk, een orgelconcert, blaasmuziek, instrumentale dansen en vocale werken. Deze muziek van voornamelijk Engelse componisten werd uitgevoerd door een klein ensemble met meerdere instrumenten per partij en zangers met verschillende soorten stemmen.

Het bijgeleverde boekje bevat afbeeldingen en uitstekende besprekingen van de Vauxhall Gardens door auteur David E. Coke en dirigent en musicologe Bridget Cunningham.

Artist(s)

London Early Opera

London Early Opera are leading exponents of baroque research as they work closely with musicologists, historians, editors and researchers finding new interesting programmes, unrecorded music which feature detailed historical performance practice. LEO link dramatic music and singing with narration and art history to create magical performances in their oratorio and concert performances. They have recently recorded discs of Handel at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and Handel in Italy with multi Grammy winning producer Chris Alder and singers Sophie, Mary and Ben Bevan, Eleanor Dennis, Greg Tassell, Kirsty Hopkins, Claire Bessent, Charles MacDougal. The group is directed by harpsichordist, conductor and early music specialist Bridget Cunningham and they have performed to acclaim at several major venues including Southwark Cathedral, Grosvenor Chapel and St James’ Church, Piccadilly and across France. London...
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London Early Opera are leading exponents of baroque research as they work closely with musicologists, historians, editors and researchers finding new interesting programmes, unrecorded music which feature detailed historical performance practice.

LEO link dramatic music and singing with narration and art history to create magical performances in their oratorio and concert performances.

They have recently recorded discs of Handel at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and Handel in Italy with multi Grammy winning producer Chris Alder and singers Sophie, Mary and Ben Bevan, Eleanor Dennis, Greg Tassell, Kirsty Hopkins, Claire Bessent, Charles MacDougal.

The group is directed by harpsichordist, conductor and early music specialist Bridget Cunningham and they have performed to acclaim at several major venues including Southwark Cathedral, Grosvenor Chapel and St James’ Church, Piccadilly and across France.

London Early Opera offers concerts, operas, educational workshops, lecture recitals and recordings and collaborate on other projects such as their recent recording of George Butterworth.


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Bridget Cunningham (conductor)

Bridget Cunningham is an international conductor, prizewinning harpsichordist and musicologist who trained at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a Junior Fellowship to work in the Centre for Performance History and coach singers in the baroque style. As Artistic Director of London Early Opera, Cunningham is creating, researching and conducting an ongoing series of Handel recordings with Signum Classics exploring Handel the man, his music and his travels to capture musical snapshots of moments in his life. These new CDs are being released worldwide and include Handel in Italy Vol.1 & Vol.2, Handel in Ireland Vol.1 and Handel at Vauxhall Vol.1 & Vol.2 and handel’s Queens; “Handel has never sounded better” BBC Music Magazine 5 Stars, October 2019 Her solo harpsichord performances include playing for Prince Charles and the Royal Family at Buckingham...
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Bridget Cunningham is an international conductor, prizewinning harpsichordist and musicologist who trained at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a Junior Fellowship to work in the Centre for Performance History and coach singers in the baroque style.

As Artistic Director of London Early Opera, Cunningham is creating, researching and conducting an ongoing series of Handel recordings with Signum Classics exploring Handel the man, his music and his travels to capture musical snapshots of moments in his life. These new CDs are being released worldwide and include Handel in Italy Vol.1 & Vol.2, Handel in Ireland Vol.1 and Handel at Vauxhall Vol.1 & Vol.2 and handel’s Queens;

“Handel has never sounded better” BBC Music Magazine 5 Stars, October 2019

Her solo harpsichord performances include playing for Prince Charles and the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, Maison Hine and Château de Hautefort in France, the London Handel Festival and a broadcast on Austria’s National Radio Stephansdom with pianist Angela Hewitt. She coaches The Handelians from London Early Opera and collaborates with the Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi and baroque dance groups including Mercurius Company and Les Plaisirs Des Nations performing with them at Yale University. She also gives lecture recitals and concerts at Art Galleries including the opening of ‘Watteau: The Drawings Exhibition’ at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Cunningham is a versatile conductor and harpsichordist and has performed at several prestigious venues and festivals including the Opera house Teatro Petruzzelli Bari, Yale University’s Center for British Art America and recently conducted Handel’s Semele, Bach’s Easter Oratorio and also Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro, Serenade, Haydn Harpsichord and Violin Concerto and Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen in a Romantic and Gipsy programme at St Martin-in-the Fields, London for the Music of the Spheres Ensemble. She also directed a world premiere with London Early Opera written by Grace Evangeline-Mason commissioned by the BBC to celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Handel’s Water Music – broadcast live on the River Thames. Other broadcasts include BBC 2 Messiah, BBC 4 Vivaldi’s Women, Radio 4 Front Row and Radio 3 In Tune, SkyArts, RTE, RTP and a short film for Handel and Hendrix in London.


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Composer(s)

Georg Friedrich Händel

Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.  Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.  Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann...
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Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.

Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.

Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann and Scarlatti, Handel was by far the most cosmopolitan. When Handel was a child, his father, who was a surgeon at the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, imagined a juridical career for him. But his musical talents did not go unnoticed at the court, which forced the father to let him study music. In Hamburg, Handel befriended Mattheson. Together they visited Buxtehude, the greatest organ player of his time, in 1703 (two years before Bach did). At that time, Handel was already an excellent musician, but it wasn't until his stay in Italy - the land of opera - that his talents and skills truly started to flourish. Back in Germany, he received a position at the court of Hannover, where the noblemen had a connection to the British throne. Thanks to these connections, Handel decided to move to London, after which a puzzling history of intrigues and political games started. For example, it is unclear what the exact political message of his famous Water Music is, which was composed for a boat ride on the river Thames by King George. Initially, Handel focused on Italian opera during his stay in London, but from the 1730s onwards he started composing English spoken oratorios, with the celebrated Messiah at its peak.


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Daniel Moult (organ)

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01.
Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 : Sinfonia
03:36
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera
02.
Organ Improvisation in the style of John Worgan and Handel
00:59
(Daniel Moult) Daniel Moult
03.
Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: I. Sinfonia: A tempo ordinario e staccato
00:49
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
04.
Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: II. Allegro
04:56
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
05.
Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: III. Adagio e staccato
00:48
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
06.
Organ Concerto Op. 4 No. 2 in B flat Major, HWV 290: IV. Allegro ma non presto
03:07
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
07.
Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Ye verdant plains and woody mountains
00:42
(George Frideric Handel) Kirsty Hopkins, London Early Opera
08.
Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Hush, ye pretty warbling choir!
05:43
(George Frideric Handel) Kirsty Hopkins, London Early Opera
09.
Colin and Phoebe: A Pastoral
03:34
(Thomas Arne) Eleanor Dennis, Greg Tassell, Benjamin Bevan, London Early Opera
10.
Saul, HWV 53: Dead March
03:06
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera
11.
The Advice
02:10
(George Frideric Handel) Sophie Bevan, London Early Opera
12.
The Melancholy Nymph, HWV 228 No. 19
03:35
(George Frideric Handel) Charles MacDougall, London Early Opera
13.
Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: I. Adagio
01:59
(John Hebden) London Early Opera
14.
Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: II. Fuga
01:55
(John Hebden) London Early Opera
15.
Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: III. Largo
01:33
(John Hebden) London Early Opera
16.
Concerto for Strings and Basso Continuo No 1 in A Major: IV. Allegro
03:33
(John Hebden) London Early Opera
17.
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: As steals the morn upon the night
06:12
(George Frideric Handel) Eleanor Dennis, Greg Tassell, London Early Opera
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