Handel, Gloria/BIS

The new Messiah! Or so ran the breathless March, 2001 headlines trumpeting the rediscovery of Handel’s Gloria. Well, not quite. The 16-minute, seven-movement work, written

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sargent handel dutton C

Purists should get some prescription painkillers before listening to this version of one of Handel’s most popular oratorios, mutilated by Malcolm Sargent’s rewriting huge swathes

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David Russell

If you normally shy away from Baroque Guitar music, put on this CD and go immediately to track 15. The martial-flavored opening of Scarlatti’s Sonata

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