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#loveHandel - an occasional podcast dedicated to the great baroque composer George Frideric HandelAuthor: Tatty Theo
Tatty Theo, cellist and founder of award-winning music ensemble The Brook Street Band, has always loved the composer George Frideric Handel's music. In the #loveHandel podcast, Tatty shares her passion for Handel, with information about Handel's life and music, and why she thinks it is so great. Here's to a whole new audience getting to #loveHandel's music! With thanks to Arts Council England and #NationalLottery and its players, for funding this project. Language: en Genres: Arts, Performing Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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loveHandel - The Handel specialists share their love for the music of Joseph Gibbs
Monday, 17 November, 2025
Join Rachel and Tatty from The Brook Street Band as they chat all things Gibbs over a few cups of coffee! Joseph Gibbs is one of the 18th century’s best-kept secrets; his music is characterful and individual, fusing the best of Italianate virtuosity with English and quirky Gibbs-ian humour. Despite the obvious brilliance of his compositions, the 8 Solos for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 1 of c. 1746 are one of only two published sets of music, and there are scant references to Gibbs in the years after his death. However, the re-emergence of his portrait (painted by Thomas Gainsborough) in the early years of the 20th century sparked a curiosity and interest in Gibbs’s music, which has been described as amongst ‘the finest English violin sonatas of the century’.
