Händel with Concerto Köln

Ivor Bolton turns to one of his special fields: the music of Georg Friedrich Händel.

Together with the Concerto Köln he will open the season as Artist in Residence at the Philiharmonie Essen and present the Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day HWV 76 and Alexander’s Feast or the Power of Music HWV 75. Both works have already been performend together by Händel and treat the same topic: the praise St. Cecilia, patroness of music.


Concerto Köln
Emöke Barath, soprano
Allan Clayton, tenor
Andreas Wolf, bass
ChorWerk Ruhr

Georg Friedrich Händel – “Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day”, HWV 76
Georg Friedrich Händel – “Alexander’s Feast or the Power of Music”, HWV 75


1.11.2019, 17:00
Philharmonie Essen

14.11.2019, 20:00
Hamburg, Laeiszhalle