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