Handel's jubilant Music for the Royal Fireworks is music fit for a king - George II, in fact, who attended the first performance on the River Thames in 1749. Handel composed his Music for the Royal ...

“A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND’S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.” The ...

But perhaps England’s most famous composer is not British at all: the German-born George Frideric Handel. And unlike many composers who moved around a lot (think Mozart and Beethoven), Handel liked to ...

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King George II desired a fine spectacle for an April evening and the amusement of the London populace to mark the end of the War of the Austrian Succession. Fireworks — so much more special and ...

Every July Fourth, the United States celebrates its freedom with a spectacular array of fireworks. But few know when and why fireworks were first used. Most associate fireworks with the day we ...

Portland Baroque Orchestra has scored a coup in wooing the stunning soprano Amanda Forsythe to Portland this weekend. Forsythe is a rising star of Baroque opera, with a particular affinity for the ...

Celebrate! with this glorious album of Baroque music performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Handel specialist Graham Abbott. Written by Handel in 1748 to accompany a fireworks ...

Music for the Royal Fireworks Alfredo Bernardini, Conductor George Frideric Handel, Composer Ensemble Zefiro (3) Concerti a due cori, Movements: F Alfredo Bernardini, Conductor George Frideric Handel, ...

Handel’s Fireworks music, which helped start a conflagration and a crowd panic at its premiere in 1749, is still inspiring conductors to extravagant displays. Stokowski plays it with an orchestra of ...

Mark Lowther joins Andrew McGregor to compare recordings of George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and makes a personal recommendation, live from the Free Thinking Festival at Sage ...