The Glorious History of Handel’s Messiah A musical rite of the holiday season, the Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death ...

This aria comes from one of the composer’s early operas, composed in 1711. With great music throughout, it remains one of his most frequently performed works for the stage. In this aria, Handel’s ...

Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...

The propriety of projecting a composer's personal life onto how we hear and perform the music goes through fads. Review: Hidden code of two great composers deciphered - Los Angeles Times ...

Charles Hazlewood outlines the plans for Handel broadcasts during the Composers of the Year celebrations. Charles was filmed specially for the website in the Church of St Martin-within-Ludgate in ...

The so-called Handel opera revival has prompted the disinterment of so many treasures from the Baroque master’s once-buried trove of roughly 40 stage works that it might be more accurate to s… ...

The Glorious History of Handel’s Messiah. A musical rite of the holiday season, the Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners more than 250 years after the composer’s death ...