Seraphic Melody to Make

“Love conquers all.” Too often this phrase has been repeated, yet too true this statement has proven. Rather than just being a passionate emotion in which desires of the world and flesh prevail, true love is a genuine feeling which trials or extreme evil cannot break, even in the most difficult of circumstances.

Until the last decade or so, becoming involved in the historically-informed performance practice (HIPP) movement – which involves performing on instruments of a composer’s historical period – was not so “hip.

Unter der Leitung von Harry Bicket lässt das Orchester La Scintilla die Funken sprühen. Und Jetske Mijnssen bringt das Machtgerangel eines fiktiven heutigen Familienclans auf die Bühne.

In einer konzertanten Aufführung hat sich The English Concert unter der Leitung von Harry Bicket in der Elbphilharmonie der Händeloper gewidmet und bot mit einem Sänger-Ensemble eine rasante und gefühlsbetonte Barockoper der Spitzenklasse.

Guest conductor Harry Bicket brings a sense of urgency to Mozart's Requiem and pulse-quickening energy to Symphony no. 40.

The London Handel Festival offers a chance to hear rarely performed music for Passiontide, with Harry Bicket conducting the English Concert.