HANDEL ‘Messiah’
Phillipa Hyde soprano
The Hanover Band Chorus
THE HANOVER BAND
Robert Howarth conductor
The Hanover Band, one of Britain’s finest period instrument orchestras, returns to Kings Place, London to present a special Christmas performance of Handel’s masterpiece, directed by Robert Howarth and featuring soprano Phillipa Hyde.
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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.