A recital by David Daniels is always an occasion, so it will be with great pleasure that we join him at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in October for some of the most beautiful alto arias and orchestral pieces by Bach and Handel. From London we journey with David to France, Germany and Austria, and later to the USA, concluding a 6-city tour at New York's Carnegie Hall.
We're particularly delighted to welcome back The English Concert's distinguished founder Trevor Pinnock, who will direct Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day and scenes from Purcell's The Fairy Queen in November at Cadogan Hall. Trevor Pinnock is one of the great pioneers of the late 20th-century Baroque revival and his return is eagerly awaited.
Anna Caterina Antonacci's reputation as an electrifying presence will precede her to the Wigmore Hall in January, when she performs Monteverdi's masterpiece Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Miss Antonacci has made all her own the astonishing feat of performing all three vocal parts of this amazing work, so these performances promise to be a season highlight.
We have two particularly noteworthy collaborations to announce, both with London museums. In November we perform chamber music at the Handel House Museum. It is surely impossible to get physically closer to a great composer's spirit than to perform his music in his own music room.
Between April and July we then present a series of five Sunday concerts at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of their 2009 Baroque exhibition. This collaboration is ground-breaking, drawing together the common threads of the musical, visual and plastic Baroque arts under one roof. We are delighted to be working with guests as part of this exciting venture, and welcome I Fagiolini with Robert Hollingsworth and Ex Cathedra with Jeffrey Skidmore.
Introducing the 2008-09 season
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