Glass …HÄndel with care!

Glass …HÄndel with care!
16th May 2013 cyber

Date:       Thursday 16 & Friday 17 May 2013
Venue:    Robert Samut Hall, Floriana
Time:      19:30 hrs
Tickets:  €10 concessions €5 (students and senior citizens)
smart card & culture card accepted
Booking: 2122320 boxoffice@sjcav.org

The Baroque … and more Concert Series comes to a close with Christopher Muscat at the helm conducting the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra. The evening is dedicated to two composers: the great Baroque Master Handel, and contemporary composer Philip Glass.

Glass wrote the Harpsichord concerto with the Baroque tradition in mind, calling for a contemporary chamber orchestra to accompany the harpsichord in order to approach the work in a modern idiom. Handel’s works herald in the shades of summer with a burst of colour, and sheer musical joie de vivre.

Programme:

  • Händel          Arrival of the Queen of Sheebafrom Solomon
  • Glass            Harpsichord Concerto
    soloist: Arnaud de Pasquale
  • Händel          See Here the Conqu’ring Hero Comes
  • Händel          Largo from Xerxes
  • Glass            Company
  • Händel          Water Music Suite in D

MALTA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
leader Marcelline Agius
conductor CHRISTOPHER MUSCAT