A sumptuous programme of orchestral favourites from the 17th & 18th centuries in the glorious setting of St John’s Smith Square. Star soprano Sophie Bevan also joins us for Handel’s ravishing motet Silete Venti.
Handel – Concerto Grosso in D minor Op. 6 No. 10
Handel – Motet ‘Silete Venti’, HWV242
Wassenaer – Concerto in F minor from Concerti Armonici
Biber – Battalia
Muffat – Sonata No. 5 in G from Armonico Tributo
Reviews
“An excellent evening of music-making.” So said reviewer Andrew Benson-Wilson. Catch up with what you may have missed in this “veritable whirlwind of instrumental and vocal fireworks.”
http://andrewbensonwilson.org/2016/03/19/early-opera-company-silete-venti/
