Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 6 Dec 2022 will launch a new style classical music concert experience centred on the most famous works ever written. With ...
Think this election season is full of political stunts? They have nothing on King George I. Looking to one-up his popular heir, the British monarch tapped George Frideric Handel — like King George, a ...
The scope of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio ISRAEL IN EGYPT is the Passover story. Handel premiered it in three sections: The Lamentation of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, Exodus and Moses ...
"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...
The London Handel Festival has been an important part of the classical music calendar for some 40 years, but I felt it was not recognised enough outside the world of Handelian cognoscenti, and we ...
Doubling as vocalist and conductor, Angiolini is joined by fine singers in this rarely recorded late work. Giacomo Nanni’s sonorous ‘Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori’ is a particular highlight Premiered in ...
Famously Handel and Bach never met, despite being born in the same year in the same country. So it was fun to see the ...
In 1746 George Frideric Handel was commissioned to compose an oratorio for a victory celebration. He based the work on the heroic story of Judah Maccabee – the Jewish leader who defended his country ...
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If the classical industry has a favorite holiday, it’s most certainly Christmas, with all those seat-filling “Messiah”s and “Nutcracker”s, but Death of Classical is making a claim for Memorial Day ...