Composer of the Week @ BBC Radio 3 - Handel: 4. Rise of the Oratorio | Текст песни

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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Episode 4 of 5: Rise of the Oratorio

Donald Macleod recounts how Handels rivalry with the Opera of the Nobility drove the composer to produce his own glorious season of opera and oratorio.

Overture: Deborah:
The King's Consort
Robert King, conductor

Alcina (extract from Act 2)
Joyce DiDonato, soprano (Alcina)
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis, conductor

Organ Concerto in G major, Op 4 No 1
Paul Nicholson, organ
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers, conductor

Sweet bird, that shuns't the noise of folly (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)
Gillian Webster, soprano
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh, conductor.

00:02
George Frideric Handel
Deborah - Overture
Performer: The King's Consort
Conductor: Robert King

00:11
George Frideric Handel
Alcina - Act 2 Sc VIII- ScX
Singer: Joyce DiDonato
Ensemble: Il Complesso Barocco
Director: Alan Curtis

00:27
George Frideric Handel
Concerto No 1 In G Minor Op 4`1
Performer: Paul Nicholson
Choir: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers

00:45
George Frideric Handel
L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Ed Il Moderato - Air sweet bird, that shuns’t the noise of folly
Singer: Gillian Webster
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players
Director: Paul McCreesh

First broadcast: 26 Nov 2015 (b06pxl62)
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