275 years after George Frideric Handel performed his Messiah for the benefit of London’s foundlings, Gareth Malone is set to ...
"Messiah" wasn't actually Handel's idea. The words came from a friend ... "Messiah" was a huge hit in Dublin, and, eventually, in London. It seems to offer a sense of hope and light at a time ...
It was written about a year after the London premiere of Handel's great oratorio 'Messiah', for which Jennens had supplied the libretto. Jennens had been unhappy with some of the music Handel had ...
Most music lovers have encountered George Frideric Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's 'Hallelujah' chorus or his ... Through the 1720s Handel composed Italian operatic ...