Relayed from the National Museum of Wales

National Orchestra of Wales
(Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Cymru)

In these Concerti Grossi of Handel's, as listeners know well by this time, the effect depends largely on the contrasts between a little team of solo instruments and the main body of the orchestra. Now the solo voices play alone, now there are passages for the orchestra without them; sometimes the soloists are accompanied by the whole orchestra, and sometimes the two sets of players engage in an animated conversation.
(to 14.00)