Handel's Salon

Harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander is delighted to return to perform an intimate recital of works by Handel himself, complemented this time by music from one of his great admirers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He first discovered Handel’s keyboard music at the weekly meetings chez Baron von Swieten in the 1780s in Vienna; the baron being an avid collector of ancient music and a loyal supporter of Mozart’s career. In a letter following a particularly inspiring Sunday session, Mozart remarked of Handel that ‘…when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt!’.

Nathaniel will perform a set of Handel’s fugues that Mozart was so keen to study along with his personal favourite Handel pieces and a suite Mozart wrote in the old style in homage to the great master.

Handel’s Salon brings music back into the rooms where Handel once lived, worked and entertained. Inspired by the concerts, gatherings and creative exchanges that filled his home, this series celebrates his music, his house and his enduring legacy.