English conductor and musicologist Jane Glover has long had a passion for music of the baroque era. In 1975, at the age of 26, she made her made her professional conducting debut at the Wexford Festival, conducting her own edition of Francesco Cavalli’s 1652 opera L’ERITREA, and in 1978 she published biography of Cavalli drawing on research from her doctoral thesis. Dr. Glover has conducted orchestras all over Europe and North America, and has recorded music by Haydn, Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, and William Walton, as well as Benjamin Britten, whom she met as a teenager. Dr. Glover has also published books about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (MOZART’S WOMEN: HIS FAMILY, HIS FRIENDS, HIS MUSIC, 2006) and George Frideric Handel (HANDEL IN LONDON: THE MAKING OF GENIUS, 2018) From 1984-1992, Jane Glover was Principal Conductor of the London Mozart Players, and today’s Beautiful Music features her leading them in some of Handel’s Water Music. There’s also a link below to Dr. Glover’s biography.
Jane Glover – Conductor (jane-glover.com)
Glover Savors Bond With Music Of The Baroque » Early Music America