The eminent Dutch conductor and harpsichordist Ton Koopman, whose mastery of authentic Baroque and Classical styles has brought him to the world's major concert stages, leads members of the San Francisco Symphony in three marvelous masterworks: Handel's high-spirited Water Music, with its French waltzes and syncopated English hornpipe, and Haydn's harpsichord-featuring Symphony No. 90 and his brilliant 1796 Trumpet Concerto, the first written for the then-new chromatic trumpet, played here by the symphony’s splendid principal trumpeter, Mark Inouye.
The eminent Dutch conductor and harpsichordist Ton Koopman, whose mastery of authentic Baroque and Classical styles has brought him to the world's major concert stages, leads members of the San Francisco Symphony in three marvelous masterworks: Handel's high-spirited Water Music, with its French waltzes and syncopated English hornpipe, and Haydn's harpsichord-featuring Symphony No. 90 and his brilliant 1796 Trumpet Concerto, the first written for the then-new chromatic trumpet, played here by the symphony’s splendid principal trumpeter, Mark Inouye.
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