Late Night: Händels Wassermusik

In the organizer's words:

B'Rock Orchestra

Evgeny Sviridov, violin & conductor

George Frideric Handel: "Water Music" Suites HWV 348, 349 and 350

Henri-Jacques de Croes: Violin Concerto op. 1/2

Today it would be called a publicity stunt: King George I of England had a 50-piece orchestra play on a boat on the Thames - an exclusive party for London's high society. Handel wrote the dance movements especially for this July night in 1717, which later became famous as "Water

Music". The Belgian B'Rock Orchestra complements Handel's masterpiece with a rarely heard concerto by the Flemish composer Henri-Jacques de Croes.