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Handel & Hendrix in London

Lucie Skeaping visits Handel & Hendrix in London, which reopens this month after 18 months of renovations - a museum that puts Handel's London home-life into colourful context.

Lucie Skeaping visits Handel & Hendrix in London, which reopens this month after eighteen months of renovations that have created a new museum space that puts Handel's London home-life into gloriously colourful context.

Handel lived in the house in Brook Street for 35 years, where he not only entertained and rehearsed with a myriad of musicians and performers, but also just went about his daily life in what was then a relatively newly-built area of the capital. Lucie is joined by museum curator Simon Daniels, curator Claire Davies and research assistant Olwen Foulkes who will take her on a guided tour of the museum and some of its artefacts that help to shine a light on Handel's personal life as well as his musical achievements. She'll also dip into the world of Jimi Hendrix, who also lived in the house next door for a year in the late 1960s.

Plus, there'll be your weekly edition of Early Music News from Mark Seow.

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 May 2023 14:00

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Hallelujah chorus (Messiah)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite no. 7 in G minor HWV.432: Gigue

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • SOMM.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite no. 1 in A major HWV.426: Courante

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • SOMM.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite no. 2 in F major HWV.427: Allegro

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.
    • Somm.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio sonata in G major Op.5 No.4: Allegro

    Ensemble: Brook Street Band.
    • AVIE.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

    Performer: Paul Ayres.
    • PRIORY.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Dove sei, amato bene (Rodelinda)

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Ottavio Dantone.
    • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Brilla nell'alma (Alessandro)

    Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Ensemble: Armonia Atenea. Conductor: George Petrou.
    • DECCA.
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Purple Haze

    • Purple Haze.
    • TRACK.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'Pifa' Pastoral Symphony (The Messiah)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • linn.
  • George Frideric Handel

    The Trumpet shall sound (Messiah)

    Performer: Ute Hartwich. Singer: Roderick Williams. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Justin Doyle.
    • PENTATONE.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 May 2023 14:00

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