London Early Opera

Handel at Vauxhall, Vol. 2

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Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212047927
Catnr: SIGCD 479
Release date: 08 September 2017
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Signum Classics
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0635212047927
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SIGCD 479
Release date
08 September 2017
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About the album

London Early Opera continue their programme themed around a typical evening’s entertainment at the 17th & 18th century Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, with a second collection of works by George Frideric Handel and contemporary composers of the day (John Stanley, Thomas Gladwin, John Lampe and Johann Adolph Hasse). Featuring performances by soloists Claire Bessant, Mary Bevan, Benjamin Bevan, Eleanor Dennis, Charles MacDougale, Nicky Spence and Greg Tassell, the programme evokes the carnival of music and entertainments that amused visitors in these London gardens for nearly 200 years.

The booklet notes feature images and expert commentaries on the Vauxhall Gardens by author David E. Coke and as well as conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham.

De Londen Early Opera vervolgt hun programma rond een typische entertainment avond in de 18de eeuwse “Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens” in Londen, met een tweede reeks werken van Handel en van zijn tijdgenoten John Stanley, Thomas Gladwin, John Frederick Lampe en Johann Adolph Hasse. Op het album zijn onder andere uitvoeringen te horen van solisten laire Bessant, Mary Bevan, Benjamin Bevan, Eleanor Dennis, Charles MacDougale, Nicky Spence en Greg Tassell. “London Early Opera” brengt de muziek en het amusement van bijna 200 jaar geleden opnieuw tot leven.

Het bijbehorende boekje bevat afbeeldingen en deskundige teksten over Vauxhall Gardens door David E. Coke en de dirigent en musicoloog 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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01.
Spring Gardens (Rural Beauty or Vaux-Hal Garden)
03:21
(William Boyce) Daniel Moult, Greg Tassell, London Early Opera
02.
Concerto No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6 HWV 322: I. Larghetto affetuoso
02:49
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
03.
Concerto No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6 HWV 322: II. Allegro
02:43
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
04.
Concerto No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6 HWV 322: III. Largo e piano
02:22
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
05.
Concerto No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 6 HWV 322: III. Largo e piano
02:47
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
06.
The Power of Music and Beauty
03:17
(John Stanley) Mary Bevan, Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
07.
A Song on the Victory over the Rebels by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, HWV 228.9
02:44
(George Frideric Handel) Mary Bevan, Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
08.
Colin?s Description of Vauxhall
08:09
(George Frideric Handel) Daniel Moult, London Early Opera
09.
Hornpipe in D Major, HWV 356
03:10
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult
10.
The Farewel to Vaux Hall
03:59
(John Lampe) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Greg Tassell
11.
Comus, HWV 44: I. Air: ?There, in blissful shades and bow?rs?
03:47
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis, Claire Bessent, Benjamin Bevan
12.
Comus, HWV 44: II. Chorus: ?Happy, happy, happy plains!?
01:31
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis, Claire Bessent, Benjamin Bevan
13.
Comus, HWV 44: III. Air: ?There sweetest owers of mingled hue?
04:39
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis, Claire Bessent, Benjamin Bevan
14.
Comus, HWV 44: IV. Chorus: ?Happy, happy, happy plains!?
01:28
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis, Claire Bessent, Benjamin Bevan
15.
Comus, HWV 44: V. Air: ?There youthful Cupid, high advanc?d?
02:47
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis, Claire Bessent, Benjamin Bevan
16.
Comus, HWV 44: VI. Chorus: ?Happy, happy, happy plains!?
01:32
(George Frideric Handel) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis, Claire Bessent, Benjamin Bevan
17.
The Ladies in Vauxhall Gardens, to the British Officers at Dettingen
03:18
(Thomas Gladwin) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Eleanor Dennis
18.
Roger and Sue a Ballad to a Favourite Air by Sig.r Hasse
03:43
(Johann Adolph Hasse) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Nicky Spence
19.
Loyal Song
01:38
(Anonymous) London Early Opera, Daniel Moult, Charles MacDougall, Benjamin Bevan
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