Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and conductor Ton Koopman play the Water Music, Suite No. 2, by Handel.

With its juxtaposition of Handel anthems and Black American spirituals, the program by conductor Anthony Trecek-King and countertenor Reginald Mobley asked audiences to sit back and reflect.

Handel, along with Purcell, is Britain’s most celebrated composer and yet why do we not celebrate him in the way the Germans celebrate Bach, Mozart or Beethoven? How many of the wider public know him ...