Combattimento met Händel in Londen

Due to his fame as a great composer, Georg Friedrich Handel overshadowed many other composers active there during his long stay in London, while these wrote numerous captivating pieces of music, not infrequently with Handel as inspiration. We therefore put these composers in the spotlight. Yet Handel also gets a prominent place with the performance of his famous organ concerto The Cockoo and the Nightingale. The Dorpskerk has a beautiful organ from 1720, built by Jacobus Zeemans. We thought it was time to let this organ sound in all its glory, together with Combattimento and organist Pieter Dirksen.

Combattimento
Cynthia Freivogel, violin and viola d'amore
Quirine van Hoek, violin
Marjolein Dispa, viola
Diederik van Dijk, cello
Erik Olsman, double bass
Sören Leupold, chitarrone
Pieter Dirksen, harpsichord, organ
Bram Kreeftmeijer, oboe

Programme
Ariosti, Lesson V for viola d'amore and theorbo
De Fesch, Concert for strings op. 10/2
Avison, Trio sonata
Roseingrave, Voluntary No. 4 and No. 8 for organ
Handel, Concerto for organ HWV 295
‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’
Handel, Concerto for oboe HWV 302
Pepusch, Sonata à 4 (with organ)
Bononcini, Overture ‘Astarte’
Porpora, Cello Concerto