Baroque Splendor with Handel & Bach

Courtly dances and buoyant melodies take center stage in two Baroque favorites: Handel's Water Music and Bach's Keyboard Concerto in A Major, featuring the "extravagantly gifted" (LA Times) Awadagin Pratt. Equally enchanting and energetic, Haydn's “Drumroll” Symphony brims with humor and wit, building to a riotous finale where fleet-footed tunes race across every corner of the orchestra.

Program

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 

Bach: Keyboard Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055 

Jessie Montgomery: Rounds for Piano and Strings 
Haydn: Symphony 103 in E Flat, “Drumroll”

 

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Artists

Dame Jane Glover, Conductor
Awadagin Pratt, Piano

 
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