Haydn2032 - No.16

The Surprise

Kapustin: Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 6

Rautavaara - Aho

joy & asymmetry

Doux Silence

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - François Lazarevitch

Fauré: Requiem (1888)
Donizetti: Chiara e Serafina

Crossroads

Ksenija Sidorova plays Bach, Akhunov, Tabakova & Montero

Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots

Kuhnau: "Uns ist ein Kind geboren"

Weihnachtskantaten

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Requiem

Schnittke: Film Music - Vol.6

Little Tragedies

Clarinet Trios

Hartmann - Gade - Mendelssohn

Monteverdi: Testamento - Vespro della Madonna 1643

New Monteverdi Verspers from his true musical testament

Sorabji: Vocal and Chamber Works

Pietro Auletta: L'Orazio

(World Premiere Recording)

Wilms: Symphony No.6 & Overtures
Music of the Angels

George Frideric Handel

Great Composers in Words and Music

George Frideric Handel
HÄNDEL Georg Friedrich (1685-1759) Nicholas Boulton (Erzähler) Label : Naxos
Artikelnummer: 8578376 1 CD Spielzeit : 077:38
CHF 13.50


Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, two of his greatest orchestral achievements, have become synonymous with mid-18th-century England and with the pomp, ceremony and tradition of British royalty. But is this music necessariliy synonymous with Handel? Where did his eclecticism and experimentalism come from? How and why did he conquer the emerging genre of the English oratorio and what were the circumstances that allowed him to become one of opera's gratest composers?