Leonardo García Alarcón conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bach and Handel

Date & Time

Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 20:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

The Concertgebouw Orchestra takes flight in Baroque music when Leonardo García Alarcón is conducting. After his impressive first appearance in 2022, the charismatic Argentine conductor returns, weaving works by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks into a festive whole, just as Bach himself would do on Friday evenings at Leipzig’s Café Zimmermann. Andreas Wolf’s rich, round bass is heard in a number of phenomenal arias from the secular cantatas (chamber operas) which Bach wrote... Read full text

Keywords: Early Music, Vocal Music

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Musicians

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Leonardo García Alarcón	Conductor
Andreas Wolf	Bass

Program

Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068	Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria's	Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia	Johann Sebastian Bach
Music for the Royal Fireworks in D major, HWV 351	Georg Friedrich Händel
Aria's	Johann Sebastian Bach

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