Water Music

King George I, with a small assortment of aristocratic guests, sat in a boat floating up the Thames. Handel, and an orchestra, sat in another, entertaining the royal party with a new piece called, inevitably, Water Music.

Nowadays it’s usually played on dry land, but never like this, interspersed with Tippett’s calmly radiant music for strings. Across a gulf of 250 years, the two composers engage in a deeply moving dialogue with each other.

Notes Fund - Music for this concert has ben supported by Steven Brodie and Teresa Hall