“A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND’S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.” The ...

Celebrate! with this glorious album of Baroque music performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Handel specialist Graham Abbott. Written by Handel in 1748 to accompany a fireworks ...

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But perhaps England’s most famous composer is not British at all: the German-born George Frideric Handel. And unlike many composers who moved around a lot (think Mozart and Beethoven), Handel liked to ...

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Portland Baroque Orchestra has scored a coup in wooing the stunning soprano Amanda Forsythe to Portland this weekend. Forsythe is a rising star of Baroque opera, with a particular affinity for the ...

Handel’s Fireworks music, which helped start a conflagration and a crowd panic at its premiere in 1749, is still inspiring conductors to extravagant displays. Stokowski plays it with an orchestra of ...

Mark Lowther joins Andrew McGregor to compare recordings of George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and makes a personal recommendation, live from the Free Thinking Festival at Sage ...

Stephen Johnson considers the first performance of Handel's Royal Fireworks, a state-of-the-art night of entertainment with mechanical wonders, pyrotechnics and a massive orchestra. Show more Stephen ...