Bite-sized classical music brought to your own home The worldwide Coronavirus pandemic has temporarily stopped us playing concerts while we all adhere to the Lockdown within the UK. In the meantime, we are launching Ten@10 – an opportunity to enj…
Beethoven In The City begins – at Stationers’ Hall, London The Hanover Band’s year-long celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday started at Stationers’ Hall on 2 March, and comprised a school workshop and a concert. The workshop involved student…
We meet the musicians, discover their story and their passion for performance Benedict Hoffnung has been with The Hanover Band since the very beginning, taking part in numerous performances and helping late founder Caroline Brown shape and hone her vis…
Celebrating the 225th anniversary of Schubert’s birth, find out more about our 2022/23 Season and plans to perform The Schubert Symphonies in the heart of The City of London… Read more…
An integral element of the work of The Hanover Band – passing on the abundant knowledge of presenting Baroque and Classical music to practitioners of the future…Read more…
HANOVER (Not Hannover; Germany) In terms of British history the majority of the music we play is from the Hanoverian period. Hanover also refers to Hanover Square in London, where Haydn performed his symphonies and arias in the Salomon Concerts in the 1790’s.
BAND (ref: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)
‘An instrumental ensemble, larger than a chamber ensemble. Thus the ’24 violins’ of Louis XIV were called ‘la grande bande’ to distinguish them from Lully’s ‘petits violons’, and Charles II’s similar ensemble was known as ‘the King’s Band’. By extension, ‘band’ came to mean an orchestra in colloquial British usage’.
THE HANOVER BAND a period name for a period orchestra.