HANDEL Water Music Suites Nos.1 & 2
GEMINIANI ‘La Follia’ Concerto Grosso Op.5 No.5
J.S.BACH Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F BWV 1047
BOYCE Symphony No.5 in D
VIVALDI Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C RV 443
HANDEL Royal Fireworks Music
An explosion of orchestral delights.
Direct from their sell out concert at the NATIONAL CENTRE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS, BEIJING, CHINA, The Hanover Band with Benjamin Bayl director/harpsichord and soloists Paul Bosworth natural trumpet, Oonagh Lee recorder, Joel Raymond oboe and Theresa Caudle violin, perform a typical Hanoverian programme, with royal links.
Paul Bosworth natural trumpet
Oonagh Lee recorder
Joel Raymond oboe
Theresa Caudle violin
THE HANOVER BAND
Benjamin Bayl director/harpsichord
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.