The Hanover Band

The Hanover Band is celebrating 35 years of period instrument performances, and is returning to Stamford for a concert of music by Handel, JS Bach, CPE Bach, and JS Bach’s pupil, Carl Friedrich Abel. They will be directed by Mahan Esfahani, who has just won a prize in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2015 for his disc of the Würtemberg Sonatas of CPE Bach on Hyperion.

The Hanover Band is one of the finest period instrument orchestras in the UK. Its members are period instrument specialists whose objective is to enable audiences to gain a better feeling for what earlier music actually sounded like when heard in “favourable circumstances”. As Mozart’s contemporary Daniel Türk wrote in 1789, “some musical effects cannot be described; they must be heard.”