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Philippe Herreweghe really ought not to be conducting romantic orchestral music. He has no feeling for it at all. In the baroque works on which
Handel’s 1728 Siroe was the first opera he set to
Composed in Rome in 1707, this is Handel’s first oratorio. The title translates as “The Triumph of Truth and Enlightenment”, and the plot, such as
This opera, Handel’s penultimate, is relatively direct, both in its scoring–just strings and oboes–and its plot: Rosmene (soprano) must choose between Tirinto (mezzo-soprano), whom she
