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Brook Street Band at 20
10th Mar 2016
The early music ensemble celebrate a milestone birthday with a new disc of Handel's Trio Sonatas.
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Robert King on Handel's Israel in Ägypten
4th Feb 2016
David talks to the conductor about his latest reconstruction project, which brings Handel and Mendelssohn together.
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Paul McCreesh on Handel’s 'L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato'
8th May 2015
David 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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Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel's Messiah
8th Dec 2014
David listens to a new recording of Handel's Messiah, with Emmanuelle Haïm and the Concert d’Astrée orchestra and choir.
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Handel Operas
22nd Aug 2014
Katherine focuses on the hugely prolific composer's stage-works in this week's Favourites.
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Giulio Cesare - DVD Choice
Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)
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Handel Chandos Anthems from Stephen Layton and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
8th Jul 2013
Transparent 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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Alison Balsom: Sound The Trumpet
8th Oct 2012
In 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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Max Emanuel Cencic on Handel's Alessandro
1st Sep 2012
The Viennese countertenor talks to Katherine about recording the title-role in Handel's 1726 opera.
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Handel's Ariodante
9th May 2011
Joyce 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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Handel: Giulio Cesare and the Brockes Passion
15th Feb 2010
A 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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Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Kristina Hammarström (Cesare), Emanuela Galli (Cleopatra), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Sesto), Irini Karaianni (Cornelia), Romina Basso (Tolomeo), Tassis Christoyannis (Achilla), Petros Magoulas (Curio), Nikos Spanatis (Nireno) Orchestra of the Patras (period instruments), George Petrou
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Handel Organ Concertos
25th Feb 2008
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Padmore and Bostridge sing Handel
11th Jun 2007
Two 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’.
