This programme includes music from Handel, Corelli, Purcell & more (full programme below)

With the united aim of exploring London’s musical heritage through the lens of Handel’s life, work and legacy, the four musicians of Minerva Baroque (three instrumentalists and a soprano) recreate the typical repertoire of an 18th-century English music room. Sacred and secular vocal works by Handel himself (setting texts in his native German as well as his adopted Italian and English tongues) are interspersed with pieces by his great English precursor Henry Purcell and his younger contemporary Thomas Arne (of Rule, Britannia! fame), a stately air from Playford’s English Dancing Master and a popular sonata by Handel’s Italian mentor Arcangelo Corelli.

In Association with Brighton Early Music Festival