Handel - Water Music: Suite I in F major, HWV 348 (with Le Concert Spirituel)

Royal Fireworks at Chambord Castle, French ensemble Le Concert Spirituel conducted by Hervé Niquet Watch the full concert: Subscribe to EuroArts: Georg Friedrich Handel - Water Music I : Suite in F major (HWV 348) 0:00 Ouverture - Adagio 4:35 Allegro 7:05 Andante 8:48 Allegro da Capo 11:22 Presto 14:30 Air 16:53 Menuet 18:41 Bourrée & Hornpipe 21:42 Air Under the direction of Hervé Niquet, 70 musicians gave a spectacular performance Handel‘s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks preceded by the most celebrated movement of Marc- Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum, now universally known as the signature tune of Eurovision. The music brings to mind the splendour at the court of King Louis XIV, who sojourned in Chambord on several occasions.