Handel's jubilant Music for the Royal Fireworks is music fit for a king - George II, in fact, who attended the first performance on the River Thames in 1749. Handel composed his Music for the Royal ...

After a long drumroll of anticipatory programming, the Handel and Haydn Society finally arrived at the official opening Friday night at Symphony Hall of its bicentennial season. On Christmas Day 1815, ...

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Artistic Director Antoine Plante and Mercury perform Handel’s iconic Music for the Royal Fireworks, followed by a live fireworks display in celebration of Mercury’s 15th anniversary season. Brimming ...

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 ...

Music for the Royal Fireworks Alfredo Bernardini, Conductor George Frideric Handel, Composer Ensemble Zefiro (3) Concerti a due cori, Movements: F Alfredo Bernardini, Conductor George Frideric Handel, ...

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 ...

The Italian group’s strings play with polish and alertness. Federico Guglielmo leads proceedings expertly from the violin; his few solo flourishes are direct yet courtly (eg the dance-like canter ...