Name: Fireworks from Bach and Handel
Start: 2024-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-10-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Het Concertgebouw

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Het Concertgebouw

Conductor

Leonardo García Alarcón

Orchestra

Bass

Andreas Wolf

Bass I

Fireworks from Bach and Handel

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Public

Private

Concert

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major BWV 1068

Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205

Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats, BWV 42

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde (BWV 201)

Jnanakumar P

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Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Stage director

Librettist

Set designer

Costume designer

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Tenor

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Soprano

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

The Concertgebouw Orchestra takes flight in Baroque music when Leonardo García Alarcón is conducting. After his impressive first appearance in 2022, the charismatic Argentine conductor returns, weaving works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks into a festive whole, just as Bach himself would do on Friday evenings at Leipzig’s Café Zimmermann. Andreas Wolf’s rich, round bass is heard in a number of phenomenal arias from the secular cantatas (chamber operas) which Bach wrote in the same period.

To celebrate the signing of the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, King George II organised a massive fireworks display. Despite it all going up in flames and the crowds fleeing, Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, written for the occasion, was an instant success and even saved the monarch’s reputation. Still very popular to this day, particularly for its well-loved second movement – the peaceful Air for strings – is Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3. Pure bliss!

English

Fireworks from Bach and Handel by Bach, J. S., Händel, From (2024/2024), Conductor Leonardo García Alarcón, Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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