Handel on Saturday night. But after Berlusconi's broadcast last night, dripping with self pity and self justification, bitterly denouncing the celebrations on his going, Handel strikes again.
Nick Drew gives the whole opera at Capitalists@Work
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on the subject of Handel (and at the risk of re-opening old controversies): a friend of mine, deeply knowledgeable musician, reckons that if Mozart had been Italian he would have without doubt been #1
but he wasn't, and so that accolade goes to Handel
Lovely Philippe but a bit on the slow side?
Handel wasn't italian either. But he shared with Mozart a great lovel for Italy and italian musicians. I'm sure he would have laughed to have heard his Alleluja in Piazza del Quirinale. Incidentally the link to the musicians is http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/2011/11/13/news/hallelujah-24965120/?ref=HREC1-2
How about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8EqJjDM-nA
Not so much slow as a thumping direction I thought, musician. But the voice! However, you would be the judge.
ND, Surely first place goes to JS Bach? We've been here and so have others; I doubt anyone will change their ground.
But the predominance of Italian style and its musicians at the time renders the discussion of exposure to italianita' a bit suspect. Mozart stands supreme (except for Bach, and apart from all the other reasons) as the chap who shifted the predominant mode onwards to the next syle.
(Feeling a bit nervous here; music is not my forte).
Here's one for a different mood.
That we should have Bach, Handel AND Mozart* is a testimony to how far humanity can rise. The Matthew Passion for me justifies our existence. Thanks for this, HG.
* and as a Rock 'n Roller, I have to add, The Grateful Dead as well. They too have taken me to heaven, along with the above.
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