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In Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno of 1707 Handel included a Sonata for organ and orchestra which is the earliest known music for solo keyboard with orchestral accompaniment. From the mid-1730s he began to incorporate organ concertos between the acts of his oratorios and, as a result, he is often credited with ‘inventing’ the organ concerto. This day, which uses the 2002 William Drake organ built in the English Eighteenth-Century style, seeks to place Handel’s much performed and recorded concertos in the context of the much less frequently heard examples by his English contemporaries such as William Hayes, Thomas Saunders Dupuis and John Stanley. Student organists from the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and Trinity College of Music will work with James Johnstone and instrumentalists from Trinity College of Music’s Early Music Department in the following programe:
Thomas Saunders Dupuis, 1733 - 1796
Organ Concerto op 1 no 3 in C major
soloist: Richard Brasier, RAM
George Frideric Handel, 1685 - 1759
Organ Concerto op 4 no 1 in G minor
soloist: Tyrone Whiting, TCM
Organ Concerto op 4 no 5 in F major
soloist: Martin Ford, RCM
William Hayes, 1708 – 1777
Organ Concerto in G major
soloist: Ilia Kudryavtsev, RAM
John Stanley, 1712 - 1786
Organ Concerto op no 4 in C minor
soloist: James Norrey, TCM
A partnership between London Handel Festival, the Royal College of Organists and Trinity College of Music
10:00 – 13:00 Masterclass with soloists
14:00 – 17:00 Open rehearsal
18:30 Pre-concert talk by Dr Donald Burrows, internationally renowned Handel scholar and Professor of Music at the Open University.
19:30 – c.20:30 Concert
Admission to the masterclass and open rehearsal is free. Admission to the pre-concert talk is free with purchase of concert ticket, £10.00 (concessions £7.00).
Those wishing to attend the masterclass and open rehearsal are asked to notify the College in advance (tel 05600 767237).
For concert tickets please contact the Box Office: Blackheath Concert Halls, tel 020 8463 0100