Baroque pearls for the chamber

To kick off the ‘Music at Handel's House’ series, a young ensemble from Leipzig and Dresden brings together masterpieces of early music. With Georg Friedrich Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann, three great heroes of Central German Baroque music are represented in this concert.
The programme oscillates between chamber music gems such as the Sonata sopr' il soggetto Reale a traversa, violino e continuo from Bach's Musikalisches Opfer and one of Telemann's 18 Canons Mélodieux. 
Handel's stage music, originally composed for a larger ensemble, is certainly a rarity and has been adapted by the four musicians for this purely instrumental chamber concert. In addition to excerpts from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, two arias will be performed in a chamber music setting, inviting listeners to enjoy new listening experiences with a reduced ensemble. The timbres of the Baroque violin and transverse flute lend the parts of Ruggiero from Alcina and Cleopatra from Giulio Cesare in Egitto a unique effect. Handel's popular Trio Sonata in G minor, HWV 393, was originally composed for two violins and basso continuo. It too takes on a new timbre in the instrumentation of this concert.