Date and Time
Sat, 26th Jul, 2025 - Sun, 27th Jul, 2025 at 19:30 - 15:00

“The players give every indication of loving every note they play”
                                                                  Robert Bigio (Journal of the British Flute Society)

The London Handel Players is a world-class ensemble bringing together leading period-instrument specialists in the field of baroque chamber music.  For over twenty years, since making their debut at Handel’s parish church, St. George’s Hanover Square, as part of the London Handel Festival in 2000, they have thrilled audiences across the world with their performances and recordings. They appear regularly at Wigmore Hall and at many of the leading festivals in the UK, Europe and North America, performing baroque chamber music and concertos and collaborating with the world’s leading singers.  The ensemble is particularly active in North America, where they have performed at venues including the Frick Museum, Carnegie Hall and the Bourgie Hall in Montreal and have been praised by the New York Times for their “soulful depth” and their “consummate skill and musicianship”.  The members of the group pursue busy solo, directing and conducting careers, work with many of the major early-instrument ensembles in the UK and abroad and are professors at the conservatoires in London.

The first concert is entitled ‘Father, Godfather, and Son’.  Georg Philipp Telemann was Godfather to Johann Sebastian Bach’s fifth child, Carl Philipp Emanuel, who later became a prolific composer, and this concert contains works by all three of these great masters with a variety of duos, trios and quartets.

Programme:

JS Bach Organ Trio in G major for flute, violin and continuo BWV 525
Telemann Paris Quartet No 2 in A minor TWV 43:a2
CPE Bach Trio Sonata in C major H 571
JS Bach Sonata in A major for violin and harpsichord BWV 1015
JS Bach Sonata in E minor for flute and continuo BWV 1034
Telemann Quartet in G minor (Sonata Secondo from 6 Quadri) TWV 43:g1

The second concert is entitled ‘Recreation’ with works by Schmelzer, Quantz, Telemann, Handel and Leclair and will include Leclair’s Première Récréation de Musique.

Programme:

JS Bach Partita in C minor BWV 997
Handel “What tho’ I trace” from Solomon
Leclair Première Récréation in D major Op 6
Quantz Flute Concerto No 12 in A major QV 4:6
Schmelzer Trio Sonata in G major ‘La Pastorella’
Telemann Sonata in G major for flute, two violins & continuo TWV 43:g12

Saturday 26 July at 7.30pm
Sunday 27 July at 3pm

Ticket for each concert £20
Combined ticket for both concerts £35
Students in full-time education and carers free

Haywain Bar and doors open 30 minutes before performance.
 
In a collaboration with Espressivo Concerts