River Thames
The Water Music composed by George Frideric Handel premiered on 17 July 1717, when King George I requested a concert on the River Thames. The concert was performed for King George I on his barge and he is said to have enjoyed it so much that he ordered the 50 exhausted musicians to play the suites three times on the trip.
Beecham-Handel suites
The conductor Sir Thomas Beecham made several orchestral suites from neglected music by George Frideric Handel, mostly from the composer's 42 surviving operas. The best known of the suites are "The Gods Go a'Begging" (1928), "The Origin of Design" (1932), "The Faithful Shepherd" (1940), "Amaryllis" (1944) and "The Great Elopement" (1945, later expanded as "Love in Bath", 1956).