Join Nicholas Kraemer and four preeminent singers for a selection of Handel’s brilliant and soul-stirring vocal numbers, which explore the full spectrum of human emotions — from utmost sorrow to joy and sensuality. Plus, enjoy music fit for a king with Handel’s Water Music, composed for the royal court of George I, and Mozart’s grand Coronation Mass.

Program

Handel

Water Music, Suite No. 2

Handel

Otton, qual portentoso - Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina

Handel

Prophetic raptures swell my breast from Joseph

Handel

Introduction to Act III and Entrance of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon

Handel

To thee thou glorious son from Theodora

Handel

Let’s imitate her notes above from Alexander’s Feast

Beethoven

Elegy

Mozart

Mass in C Major (Coronation)