The English Concert is an outstanding orchestra: exceptional, in the world-renowned quality, ambition and variety of its live and recorded output; unique, in the zeal of its players for working and performing together; unwavering, in its desire to connect with its audience throughout the world. Irish mezzo-soprano Paula Murrihy enjoys a busy career working at the highest level in both Europe and the US. The programme features some of Handel’s greatest opera arias and two of his concertos plus Geminiani’s Concerto Grosso.

Programme

G F Handel Overture to Serse

G F Handel Ombra mai fu from Xerxes

G F Handel Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 6

G F Handel Scherza Infida from Ariodante

G F Handel Where Shall I Fly from Hercules

G F Handel Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 1

G F Handel There in Myrtle Shade Reclined from Hercules

F Geminiani Concerto Grosso, Op. 5, No. 12, Follia

G F Handel Dopo Notte from Ariodante