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Handel’s festive Water Music was first performed during a royal boat trip on the Thames. The date was 17/7/1717. According to the report in The Daily Courant, George I and his aristocratic guests travelled in their royal boat from Whitehall Palace to Chelsea. Some fifty musicians travelled with them in a second boat and provided the soundtrack. What happened on this royal boat barely still interests us today, but the boat with musicians wrote history.
Numerous Londoners had cast loose the hawsers of their own boats to get close to the royal party. According to the newspaper, the whole river was filled with boats and sloops. The king was so taken with Handel’s music that he wanted to hear it again on the voyage back to London.
Alongside Handel’s masterful orchestral music, B’Rock also performs the majestic overture ‘Hamburger Ebbe und Flut’ by Handel’s friend Telemann. And concertmaster Evgeny Sviridov performs a solo in Vivaldi’s delightful concerto ‘The Cuckoo'.
Programme
Georg Philipp Telemann - Suite in C major ‘Hamburger Ebbe und Flut'
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for strings and violin in A major ‘The Cuckoo’
Georg Friedrich Händel - Water Music
Performers
- Evgeny Sviridov, violin and artistic leader
- Was born in Saint-Petersburg and first studied modern violin there
- Won in 2010 first place at the Bach-competition in Leipzig
- Afterwards focused on the baroque violin
- Currently lives in Cologne
- Is concert master of Concerto Köln
- Teaches baroque violin in Bremen
- B'Rock
- Is a baroque orchestra founded in Ghent in 2005
- Stands for historical instruments and 21st-century ideas
- Has a penchant for original, often theatrical productions
- Is socially engaged and keeps its finger on the pulse of the world
- Has collaborated with numerous internationally renowned conductors, soloists, directors and choreographers
- Performs in concert halls and theatres all over the world
Practical
- Start time: 20:30
- Estimated end time: 22:00
- Concert location - Désiré de Wolfstraat, 9300 Aalst
- Bicycle parking - available
- Train station Aalst - 22 min by foot
- Bus stop 'Aalst Park' - 1 min by foot
- Sharing bicycles available at the train station (bluebikes)
- You can rent sharing scooters and electrical bicycles via Dott
- You can rent a sharing bicycle via Hoppy Deelfietsen
- Charging station electrical car
- Sportcentrum Schotte: Kapellekesbaan 8
- Erembodegemstraat 31
- Frans Blanckaertdreef
- Watertorenstraat 12
- Houtmarkt 12
- Carpool with others to the concert via the Slinger platform
- Before and after the concert you can have a drink at the audience bar, provided by Vicaris
Do you have specific needs or require additional facilities? Please contact Fien Straetmans at toegankelijkheid@festival.be or +32 4 91 45 26 78.
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