| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 18-Jul-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 7: A late-night Handel extravaganza with Le Concert Spirituel |
 The first-ever free Late-Night Prom on Wednesday was a Handel extravaganza for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year. Flamboyant French conductor Hervé Niquet and his group Le Concert Spirituel have made a speciality of performing Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks with the huge outdoor forces that would have been employed at the royal occasions.Read full review... | |
| 2-Jun-2012 Birmingham Symphony Hall | By royal appointment: Handel in Birmingham with the Academy of Ancient Music |
 How’s this for an original way of displaying one’s celebratory Union Flag? Strapped to the top of one’s contrabassoon! Apart from the absence of the National Anthem and horseracing, this concert gave us the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend in a nutshell, encompassing the solemnity and sovereignty of all four of Handel’s Coronation Anthems, the exuberance of the Music for the Royal Fireworks, and the pomp and pageantry of the Water Music.
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