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Keyboards and Cantatas
- part of a recital series performing all of Handel's continuo cantatas and solo harpsichord works

Cantatas
Dolc’č pur d’amor l’affanno – HWV 109a
Nel dolce tempo – HWV 135b
Vedendo amor – HWV 175
Venne voglia ad Amore (or Amore uccellatore) – HWV 176

Keyboard music
Suite in D minor – HWV 447
Capriccio in F major – HWV 481
Sonatina in B flat major – HWV 585
 

Glenn Kesby, counter tenor
Claire Williams, harpsichord
Handel House Museum, London

A co-production of the Handel House Museum, the London Handel Society and British Harpsichord Society to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of Handel's death.

Lamentations

The works that make up this recital deal with grief.  However from the sacred and secular pieces featured, the mood varies from denial and depression to defiant anger, to the peace of eternal rest and even elation at the forgiveness of sins.

Ach, daß ich Wassers gnug hätte - J C Bach cantata
Mir ekelt mehr zu leben - J S Bach from BWV 170
Lasciatemi morire! - Monteverdi
Come away, death - Finzi
Cor ingrato - Handel from Rinaldo
 

Baroque Encounter Trio

Glenn Kesby, counter tenor
Lauren Brant, recorders
Claire Williams, harpsichord

Handel House Museum, London
Moralische Kantaten (Moral Cantatas) - Telemann
  • Die Zeit (Time)
  • Hoffnung (Hope)
  • Das Glück (Fortune)
  • Der Geiz (Avarice)
  • Die Falschheit (Falsity)
  • Großmut (Generosity)
Baroque Encounter

Claire Williams, harpsichord
Jennifer Bullock, cello

Handel House Museum,
London
A Snapshot of Handel's London
  • Corydon - Pepusch cantata
  • Fille se fiera sorte - Porpora cantata
  • Mi palpita il cor - Handel cantata
Baroque Encounter Trio

Lauren Brant, recorders
Claire Williams, harpsichord
 

National Portrait Gallery,
London
Telling the Truth about Love

Les nuits d’été - Berlioz

  • Le spectre de la rose
  • Absence
  • Au cimetiere

Let us garlands bring - Finzi

  • Come away, death
  • O mistress mine
  • It was a lover and his lass
David Barnard, piano St John's Smith Square,
London
The Raptur'd Soul
Guadagni: Handel's oratorio castrato

Arias from Theodora, Messiah, Samson, Belshazzar, Foundling Hospital Anthem, L'Allegro and The Choice of Hercules by Handel and Gluck's Orfeo
 

Claire Williams, harpsichord Handel House Museum, London

Accompanying the exhibition "Handel's Castrati"
 

Caccini, Handel, Mendelssohn, Fauré and Offenbach Dorothy Hull &
Roger Munns, piano
La Salle de Spectacle
Florensac, France
 
Handel, Gluck and Mozart arias Gábor Bartinai, piano Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
 
Handel, Gluck and Mozart arias Gábor Bartinai, piano Törökbálint,
Hungary
 
The Pleasures of Restraint

Arias and duets by Scarlatti, Blow, Handel, Purcell, Monteverdi and Cesti
 

Luke Green, harpsichord
Lucy Thomas, soprano
Chelsea Arts Club,
London
Handel and Gluck Arias David Willison, piano Rye Festival Winter Series
 
A Feast for the Senses

Cantatas by Handel, Pepusch and Bononcini, Purcell and lute songs and arie antiche
 

Hanbarne Baroque Ensemble En Plo Hall,
Paphos; and

Columbia Beach Resort, Pissouri, Cyprus
 

Lute songs by Dowland, Rosseter, Jones and Campion David Parsons, lute
Debra Pring, recorder
Tudor Kitchens
Hampton Court Palace
 
Dowland and Purcell to Finzi and Vaughan Williams Jeremy Limb, piano Crowne Plaza Hotel,
Edinburgh
 
Arie antiche, Lied, opera/oratorio arias and early English song
 
Marie van Hove AM, piano Sydney, Australia