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This almost unknown, large scale (almost 3 hour) oratorio, The […]
Handel was dead, and apparently the public couldn’t get enough of his music, so his assistant John Christopher Smith (“the younger”) obliged his fans by
This is not really an oratorio by Handel. Rather, it is a pastiche–arias “borrowed” from Handel’s operas, oratorios, anthems, and cantatas–put together (and including recitatives
This is an odd work, a sort of pastiche presented in 1733, with parts from three of the Chandos Anthems, bits of Il trionfo del
