Sun 12 May 2024

Rebecca Huber leads all Handel program at the Festival de Arte y Ciencia (3)

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Rebecca leads the baroque orchestra Academy of Early Music from UNAM with an all Handel program at the Festival de Arte y Ciencia in Mexico City.

We can affirm, without a doubt, that George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) is one of the most important exponents of the late Baroque. Originally from Halle, a city in the Duchy of Magdeburg of the Holy Roman and German Empire, he was a cosmopolitan man. In 1703 he traveled to Hamburg where he worked as a violinist and harpsichordist, composed his first two operas and, in addition, made trips to Italy at the invitation of the Medici. Subsequently, he became Kapellmeister to the Prince-Elector of Hanover and eventually, due to his success, settled in England. There he maintained an intense activity as a composer and entrepreneur: director of the Royal Academy of Music, resident composer of the King’s Theater and later of the Covent Garden Theatre. Handel was a prolific composer with a relevant vocal production that includes 42 operas, 24 oratorios, more than 102 cantatas, trios, duets and numerous arias, among which the Academy of Ancient Music collects some to integrate this concert.

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PROGRAMME

From opera to oratorio in Georg Friedrich Händel

George Frideric Handel  (1685-1759)
Overture to the Concerto grosso in D minor HWV 328
Approximate duration: 4 minutes

Chorus  The many rend the skies with loud applause , from the ode  Alexander’s Banquet or The Power of Music , HWV 75
Approximate duration: 4 minutes

Terceto  Voglio stragi (I want violence!) , from the opera  Tamburlaine , HWV 18
Approximate duration: 2 minutes

Duet  Finché prendi ancora il sangue (You cause my blood to burn) , from the opera  Orlando , HWV 31 (1733)
Approximate duration: 3 minutes

Duet  Go, baffled coward, go  , from the oratorio  Samson , HWV 57 (1743)
Approximate duration: 3 minutes

Third movement  Allegro  from the Concerto grosso in D minor, HWV 328
Approximate duration: 3 minutes

Chorus  Greift zu, schlagt tot (Catch him, kill him) , from the oratorio  The Passion of Brockes or Story of Jesus , HWV 48
Approximate duration: 1 minute

Chorus  And He shall purify the sons of Levi , from the oratorio  The Messiah , HWV 56
Approximate duration: 3 minutes

Duet  Thou in thy mercy , from the oratorio  Israel in Egypt , HWV 54 (1739)
Approximate duration: 4 minutes

Terceto  Consolati mio bene (Console me, my good) , from the opera  Imeneo , HWV 41 (1740)
Approximate duration: 4 minutes

Coronation Hymn  Let thy Hand be strengthened , HWV 259
Approximate duration: 8 minutes

Intermediate

Selections from the Concerto grosso in D minor, HWV 328IV.  Allegro V.  Allegro moderato
Approximate duration: 5 minutes

Duet  The Lord is a man of war , from  Israel in Egypt , HWV 54
Approximate duration: 6 minutes

Duet  To thee, thou glorious son of worth , from the oratorio  Teodora , HWV 68
Approximate duration: 6 minutes

Chorus  Fall’n is the foe , from the oratorio  Judas Maccabeus , HWV 63
Approximate duration: 4 minutes

Quartet  Voglio tempo per risolvere (I want time to resolve) , from the oratorio  The triumph of time and disappointment , HWV 46a
Approximate duration: 5 minutes

Chorus  For unto us a child is born , from  The Messiah , HWV 56
Approximate duration: 4 minutes