Latest News: Classical, Handel (composer)
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Interview,
Brook Street Band at 20 10th March 2016The early music ensemble celebrate a milestone birthday with a new disc of Handel's Trio Sonatas.
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Interview,
Robert King on Handel's Israel in Ägypten 4th February 2016David talks to the conductor about his latest reconstruction project, which brings Handel and Mendelssohn together.
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Interview,
Paul McCreesh on Handel’s 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato' 8th May 2015David talks to the conductor about Handel's tripartite work, which weighs up the appeals of the hedonistic and the intellectual lifestyles in a kind of musical argument.
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Recording of the Week,
Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel's Messiah 8th December 2014David listens to a new recording of Handel's Messiah, with Emmanuelle Haïm and the Concert d’Astrée orchestra and choir.
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Favourites,
Handel Operas Katherine focuses on the hugely prolific composer's stage-works in this week's Favourites.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel Chandos Anthems from Stephen Layton and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge 8th July 2013Transparent textures and stylish but unfussy phrasing are the order of the day in these buoyant accounts of the anthems which Handel composed during his year-long musical residency at the home of James Brydges, the Paymaster General during the War of Spanish Succession.
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Recording of the Week,
Alison Balsom: Sound The Trumpet 8th October 2012In her first solo album to be performed exclusively on the natural trumpet, Balsom joins The English Concert and Trevor Pinnock for a programme of music celebrating real or mythic monarchs by Handel and Purcell, including excerpts from The Fairy Queen, King Arthur and Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne.
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Video Interview,
Max Emanuel Cencic on Handel's Alessandro 1st September 2012The Viennese countertenor talks to Katherine about recording the title-role in Handel's 1726 opera.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel's Ariodante 9th May 2011Joyce DiDonato sings the title-role on Alan Curtis’s recording of Handel’s Scottish opera, with Marie-Nicole Lemieux as the dastardly Polinesso and Karina Gauvin as the woman they both love.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel: Giulio Cesare and the Brockes Passion 15th February 2010A stylish account of Handel’s best-known opera from the young Greek conductor George Petrou (with Swedish mezzo Kristina Hammarström in the title-role), and a ‘superbly played and sung’ reading of an early rarity from Peter Neumann.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel Organ Concertos 25th February 2008 -
Recording of the Week,
Padmore and Bostridge sing Handel 11th June 2007Two leading English tenors tackle opera and oratorio arias, including Jupiter’s ‘Where’er you walk’ from Semele, Jephtha’s ‘Waft her, angels’, and Samson’s ‘Total eclipse’.