Handel in Words and Music

by Davinia Caddy Narrated by Nicholas Boulton

Overview

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 necessarily 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 greatest composers? This revealing audio biography is accompanied by musical examples drawn from his orchestral and instrumental music, his cantatas, oratorios, operas and those two famous royal commissions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940192773321
Publisher:	Naxos Audiobooks
Publication date:	07/26/2024
Edition description:	Unabridged

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