Join the Handel Consort & Quire for a thrilling vocal and orchestrated performance of Handel's Dettingen Te Deum.
SAT 17 OCT, 2PM-2.40PM
WORLD WAR l HALL OF MEMORIES
FREE WITH MUSEUM ENTRY
Join Handel Consort & Quire as they perform Handel's Dettingen Te Deum in the evocative surroundings of the World War One Hall of Memories. Accompanied by an orchestra of trumpets, woodwind and strings, the Quire will present this stirring piece of military pomp which intersperses thrilling, powerful choruses with gentler airs from soloists.
Soloists for this piece are Olga Shanina, Isabella Reid, Bayley Goldstone and Andrew Conley.
This free performance lasts around 40 minutes.
Handel Consort & Quire
Formed in 2003, Handel Consort & Quire directed by Robert Howell, is an ensemble of singers and instrumentalists committed to performing Handel’s lesser-known and less-performed works to the highest musical standard with attention to baroque stylistic detail.
The Handel Quire have previously performed on Breakfast TV, Radio NZ Concert, Auckland Art Gallery, MOTAT as well as at Auckland Museum. Their regular concert schedule is performed at Pitt St Methodist Church and St Andrew's Church in Pukekohe.
Dettingen Te Deum
On 27 June 1743, the British army and its allies, under the command of King George II and Lord Stair, won a victory at the Battle of Dettingen, over the French army, commanded by the Maréchal de Noailles and the Duc de Grammont. On the King's return a day of public thanksgiving was appointed, and Handel, at that time "Composer of the Musick to the Chapel Royal," was commissioned to write a Te Deum and an anthem ("The King Shall Rejoice") for the occasion. The work was first performed on 27 November 1743 in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace, London in the presence of George II.
