Reich & Handel
Handel’s delightfully sumptuous Water Music is light-hearted festive music commissioned in 1717 by King George I to be played on a floating stage on the Thames. Here, it becomes an almost jarring companion piece to Steve Reich’s ominous The Desert Music from 1983, with its cautionary message about global nuclear war.
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This production is part of one or more concert series.
The concert will be broadcasted live on Berwaldhallen Play and at Swedish Radio P2.
Approximate duration: 1 h 40 mins including intermission
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