The White Hat Guide to Handel

Tafelmusik - The Galileo Project Music of the Spheres

Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik will take you on an epic space odyssey, performing period music before stunning images from the Hubble deep space telescope. Combining music, photography and story-telling, The Galileo Project brings to life the brilliant minds of the early astronomers and the music that inspired them, as a large-scale, ever-changing backdrop of stars and planets unfolds.

The publicity states "Using the best of Bach, Handel, Monteverdi and Vivaldi, come and hear the tunes that were probably stuck in Galileo’s head when he discovered the moons of Jupiter." Now you are probably thinking, like White Hat how could tunes of composers who hadn't been born yet be stuck in his head. However we are sure that this program has been meticulously researched so all will be revealed. The program will also feature works by Lully, Purcell, Rameau, Telemann & Michelangelo Galilei brother of the astronomer). From the reputation of the group and the reviews of this concert, White Hat suggests you go out of your way to attend.

[For those wanting a little background to the history of the concept that over the centuries was known as The Music of the Spheres, White Hat suggests that you consult the program notes of Music of the Spheres - given by Ars Nova of Melbourne. This concert is unrelated to the one above but was also based on the relationship composers, mathematicians and scientists long saw between music, mathematics and the heavenly bodies.]

7.30pm, Thursday 1st March 2012, Perth Concert Hall, Perth
8pm,Saturday 3rd March, & 7pm, Tuesday 6th March 2012, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne
7pm, Monday 5th March & 2pm, Saturday 10 March 2012, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney
7pm, Thursday 8th March 2012, Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music, Canberra
5pm, Sunday 11th March & 7.30pm, Monday 12th March 2012, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
Wednesday 14th March 2012, QPAC Concert Hall, Brisbane

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra - Bach Eternal

• Bach Sinfonia from Cantata Wir danken dir, Gott BWV 29
• Bach Chorale 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' ('Jesu joy of man's desiring') from Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
• Bach Orchestral Suite No.1 in C major BWV 1066
• Bach Opening chorus from Cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens BWV 110
• Bach Kyrie from Missa Sancti Josephi ZWV 14
• Zelenka Concerto for two horns in D major TWV: 52: D1
• Handel Coronation Anthem No. 2 My heart is inditing HWV 259
• Handel Coronation Anthem No. 4 Let thy hand be strengthened HWV 261

7pm Wed 9, Fri 11, Wed 16, Fri 18, Sat 19 May; 2pm Sat 19 May 2012, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney

Mozart, Handel & Vivaldi Concertos

The Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Egarr (Guest Director, Harpsichord, Fortepiano) and Satu Vänskä (Lead Violin)

Keyboard players, conductor, historian, and director of the Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr directs this concert from the harpsichord and performs Mozart's delightful Piano Concerto No.12 on the fortepiano. White Hat suggests you take the opportunity to hear the difference it make to have a Mozart concerto played on the fortepiano rather than an overblown concert grand. Satu Vänskä is soloist in a Vivaldi concerto on the ACO's Stradivarius violin.

• Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1
• Castello Two Sonatas, “per stromenti d’arco”
• Biber Battalia
• Vivaldi Violin Concerto, RV190
• Mozart Piano Concerto No.12
• Handel Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.1

8pm, Saturday 6th October 2012, Llewellyn Hall, ANU, Canberra
2.30pm 7th Oct; 8pm 8th Oct  2012, The Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, Melbourne
8pm, Tuesday 9th October 2012, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide
7.30pm, Wednesday 10th October 2012, Perth Concert Hall, Perth
7pm 13 Oct; 8pm 16 Oct; 7pm 17 Oct 2012,  City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney
2pm, Sunday 14th October 2012, Sydney Opera House, Sydney
7.30pm, Monday 15th October 2012, Wollongong Town Hall, Wollongong
7.30pm, Thursday 18th October 2012, Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle