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.

El tono solemne representado en el ritmo majestuoso de los primeros compases ya prefiguró el carácter del héroe, y en la consiguiente fuga tan claramente articulada se anunció un cierto color festivo que anunciaba un conflicto que, a la postre, habría de resolverse felizmente.

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.

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

Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell.