Prom 7

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Water Music, Suite no. 2 in D major, HWV 349
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Water Music, Suite no. 3 in G major, HWV 350
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351

Performers

Hervé Niquet	Conductor
Le Concert Spirituel

Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel make their
Proms debut in this free Late Night Prom, giving
Handel’s three Water Music suites and Fireworks Music
the big-band, period-instrument treatment. Niquet
directs an expanded group of up to 80 musicians to
evoke resplendent royal occasions on the River
Thames and in Green Park, offering a new slant
on London’s favourite party pieces.

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Prom 7: A late-night Handel extravaganza with Le Concert Spirituel

Nahoko Gotoh, 18th July

The first-ever free Late-Night Prom on Wednesday was a Handel extravaganza for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year. Flamboyant French conductor Hervé Niquet and his group Le Concert Spirituel have made a speciality of performing Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks with the huge outdoor forces that would have been employed at the royal occasions.

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