Earlier this year eighty double-reed players joined junior members of the Royal Academy of Music in London in a commemorative performance of Handel’s Musick for the Royal Fireworks, 270 years to the day after its first performance. Laurence Perkins led the massed ensemble, with Sarah Francis and Roger Birnstingl taking sectionals earlier in the day. The audio recording of the massed performance in the Duke’s Hall is available for you to listen to below, in three parts.
More photographs of the massed ensemble performance are available in the summer 2019 edition of Double Reed News.