So what do you do if you’re a recently crowned Head of State and you’re already facing opposition—even from within your own family? One answer is optics. Make a big, public splash; throw a lavish ...

The first of three Water Music Suites by Handel, played this summer by the Aspen Chamber Symphony and conductor David Zinman, at the Aspen Music Festival, is music literally fit for a King. King ...

Let me tell you something about Handel’s Water Music, which you’ve likely heard at least in part, even if you don’t know it—probably the posh “Alla Hornpipe” movement from the second suite, the ...

Water Music, Movements: Horn Suite in F: George Frideric Handel, Composer Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble Marc Minkowski, Conductor Water Music, Movements: Flute Suite in G: George Frideric Handel, ...

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Handel wrote his Water Music for a big party the king threw in 1717 to shore up his diminishing political power. Opposition from his own son kept George I on the defensive, but by all accounts, the ...

Water Music, Movements: Horn Suite in F: (The) English Concert George Frideric Handel, Composer Andrew Manze, Violin Water Music, Movements: Horn Suite in F: George Frideric Handel, Composer (The) ...