12:30 Saturday 22 July 2017
Stage @TheDock
Georg Philipp Telemann: Water Music – overture
Frederick Delius: Summer Night on the River
George Frideric Handel: Water Music – Suite No. 3 in G major
Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER BBC commission: first concert performance
Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage
Jean‐Philippe Rameau: Naïs – overture
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches – High Wind
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches – Calm Sea in Summer
George Frideric Handel: Water Music – Suite No. 2 in D Major
Royal Northern Sinfonia
he BBC Proms travels out of London, to Hull - UK City of Culture 2017 - for a site-specific performance of music inspired by water, centering on Handel's Water Music suites, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for George I on the Thames.
Pioneering early music expert Nicholas McGegan directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Stage@TheDock - Hull's outdoor amphitheatre - in a programme featuring everything from storms and shipwrecks to calm seas and seductive sirens.
Nicholas McGegan conductor
Stage @TheDock
Georg Philipp Telemann: Water Music – overture
Frederick Delius: Summer Night on the River
George Frideric Handel: Water Music – Suite No. 3 in G major
Grace Evangeline Mason: RIVER BBC commission: first concert performance
Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and a Prosperous Voyage
Jean‐Philippe Rameau: Naïs – overture
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches – High Wind
Grace Williams: Sea Sketches – Calm Sea in Summer
George Frideric Handel: Water Music – Suite No. 2 in D Major
Royal Northern Sinfonia
he BBC Proms travels out of London, to Hull - UK City of Culture 2017 - for a site-specific performance of music inspired by water, centering on Handel's Water Music suites, first performed 300 years ago at a river party for George I on the Thames.
Pioneering early music expert Nicholas McGegan directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia at Stage@TheDock - Hull's outdoor amphitheatre - in a programme featuring everything from storms and shipwrecks to calm seas and seductive sirens.
Nicholas McGegan conductor
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