Programmes for 2024/2025
Program I - Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
Let's party like it’s 1749!
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV351
Handel Silete venti HWV242
Handel Water Music HWV348–350
Lucy Crowe soprano
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program II - Music for an Empress
Academy of Ancient Music travels to the Vienna of Empress Maria Theresa – where genius paid court, and music flourished in magnificent (and unexpected) new ways.
Maria Teresa Agnesi Licenza from Sofonsiba
Haydn Symphony No. 48 ‘Maria Theresa’
Marianne Martinez Berenice, che fai
Hasse Sinfonia from Ruggiero
Martinez Keyboard Concerto
Gluck Non vi turbate from Alceste
Mozart Symphony in D major, K.45
Agnesi Rapido turbin vedo from Sofonisba
Academy of Ancient Music &Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program III - JS Bach Brandenburg Concertos (complete)
All six of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos in one gloriously life-affirming concert from Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music.
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program IV - The Art of the Italian Concerto
Giovanni Mossi Concerto in G minor for 4 violins, Op.4 No.12
Pietro Antonio Locatelli Concerto grosso in C minor, Op.4 No.11
Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto, from L’Estro Armonico
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for 2 violins, from L’Estro Armonico
Giuseppe Valentini Concerto in A minor for 4 violins
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6 No.4
Academy of Ancient Music & Bojan Čičić director & violin
Program V - JS Bach St Matthew Passion (historical forces)
Academy of Ancient Music &Laurence Cummings conductor
Program VI - Music from the Court of Louis XIV
by Lully, Delalande, Charpentier, Couperin and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program VII - Sons of England
music by Purcell, Pepys, Handel, Festing and freed slave and noted abolitionist Ignatius Sancho, as well as a new commission by Roderick Williams
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program VIII - Handel Orlando
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program IX – Handel The Messiah
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program X - ’Tis Nature’s Voice | Bach: The Musical Offering
Unfolding the secrets of Bach's gift for a king
The Musical Offering: music written by a giant for a king, explored and performed by Laurence Cummings and AAM.
JS Bach Sonata in G for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord BWV1027
JS Bach Theme and ricercari from The Musical Offering BWV1079
JS Bach Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering BWV1079
JS Bach Ricercar à 6 from The Musical Offering BWV1079
JS Bach Concerto for Flute in G minor after BWV1056
Academy of Ancient Music & Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord
Program XI - Chamber Music
The Academy of Ancient Music comes as a chamber ensemble to offer an itinerary through one of the dominant genres in music since the mid-17th century, that of the trio sonata. When, at the beginning of that century, instrumental music began to become independent of vocal music, some Italian musicians conceived these pieces in which two high-pitched instruments dialogue over a bass. In time, the formula became so successful that the greatest musicians cultivated it intensively, as this program, focusing on Bach and Handel, demonstrates.
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