
This is certainly a pleasant enough Handel program–a kind of mixed bag of chamber music both for instruments and for solo voice. Two of the
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
This lastest entry in the “Philips 50” series came up for review after I had just heard this exact coupling on Eloquence, featuring Eduard van
What a pleasure it is to encounter these wonderful performances again. Eduard van Beinum’s 1958 account of the Water Music captures the magnificent wind section
Handel experts will know of the great Baroque composer’s many “occasional” or stand-alone songs (that is, not part of an opera or cantata or oratorio),
Handel’s six Op. 3 concertos never have suffered from overexposure in the CD catalog, and indeed the considerably greater attention given the later Op. 6
Handel treated the story of Acis and Galatea in two different works, the first a “serenata a tre” written while in Italy in 1708, and
Beginning in 1706 Handel famously–and fortunately–spent a fruitful four years in Italy during which he refined his composing craft and created an amazing catalog of
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
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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