Contents
| News | |
| I. | George Frideric Handel |
| II. | Aims of the Society |
| III. | Publications |
| IV. | Concerts & Lectures |
| V. | Projects |
| VI. | Foreign Relations |
| VII. | Travel Activities |
| VIII. | Future Events |
| IX. | Contacts |
| X. | Special Offer |
| XI. | Web Links |
| Documents |
IV. Concerts & Lectures
After publishing the monograph 'Triumf času a pravdy', the Society began organizing concerts and lectures, thus becoming involved in sponsoring. At first the activities in which the Czech Handel Society took part or organized were on a smallish scale; later on larger projects were added: 26 June 1993, Frýdlant v Čechách castle - a chamber concert by the Cappella Accademica Praha 'Count J. W. Gallas and his Music Contemporaries', including an opening lecture and introduction; 12 October 1994, Hostivice stately home - a chamber concert by the Cappella Accademica Praha, including a lecture 'The Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the Hostivice Stately Home'; 8 November 1994, Prague - a lecture on George Frideric Handel in the Mental Health Club, Polská Street, Vinohrady; 24 June 1995, Zákupy stately home - a lecture 'The Grand Duchess of Tuscany - an Outstanding Woman of Baroque Europe' interspersed with music (G. F. Handel's compositions were played by the Cappella Accademica Praha); 14 September 1996, Zákupy stately home - a lecture 'The Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Life at the Zákupy Stately Home'; 1 August 1998, Vranov nad Dyjí stately home - a chamber concert by the Cappella Accademica Praha, 'Pietro Metastasio and 18th Century Music' (dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Metastasio's birth); 29 June 2002, Stately Home Church of Blessed Juliana of Collalto, Brtnice - a chamber concert by the Atlantis Collegium, Prague, entitled 'Masters of European Music at Brtnice' (with an opening lecture and the modern Czech première of Handel's Trio Sonata No. 5b in G minor, Op. 2, which was identified, in 2001, in the Brtnice Stately Home Music Inventory).
Since 1993 the Czech Handel Society participated in sponsoring productions of Handel's oratorios: 'Joshua' - Prague, 30 June 1993 ('Canticorum iubilo' chamber choir and Camerata Pragensis, conducted by Oliver Dohnányi); 'Joshua' - Hradec Králové, 30 April 1995 & Prague, 1 May 1995 (Canticorum iubilo and Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Dohnányi); 'Jephtha' - Hradec Králové, 9 June 1996 & Prague, 14 June 1996 (Canticorum iubilo and Prague's National Theatre Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Oliver Dohnányi); 'Israel in Egypt' - Prague, 4 November 1999 (Ars Brunensis Chorus and Musica Aeterna from Bratislava, Slovakia, conducted by Roman Válek).
In May 1996, together with the young baroque-music ensemble Cappella Accademica Praha, the Czech Handel Society began a long-term joint venture, 'Masterworks of Baroque Opera - George Frideric Handel and his Contemporaries'.
In May 1997 the Czech Handel Society hosted three members of the London-based ensemble Hawksmoor Music Projects, who gave a performance of a selection of arias from Maurice Greene's (1696-1755) 'Spenser's Amoretti' at Prague (21 May) and Bítov castle (24 May).
For Handel groups from Karlsruhe, Halle an der Saale and London, the Czech Handel Society organized a Handel 'mini-festival' at the end of September 1997: 25 September - a chamber concert, Prague (Cappella Accademica Praha), 26 September - a concert of sacred music, Prague (mixed voice choir Nová Česká píseň and Collegium Musica Sacra, conducted by Vítězslav Podrazil), 27 September - a concert performance of Handel's opera 'Rodrigo' at the Dobříš stately home (Cappella Accademica Praha, conducted by Ondřej Macek).
The year 1997 saw the inception of co-operation of the Czech Handel Society and conductor Vítězslav Podrazil, which resulted in the Society's patronage of several concerts conducted by him (Orchestr Atlantis, Collegium Musica Sacra).
The organization on 3 September 1999 of an international social function at Liblice stately home, near Mělník, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Handel Society Karlsruhe was a specially challenging project. The evening opened with a concert by the Temperament 430 ensemble, in the Great Hall of the stately home; after the concert, guests and musicians gathered for a festive toast and refreshments in the sala terrena.