Handel

[Bryn]

At a glance those recordings have a look of the parson’s egg about them - I could listen to Emma forever but my ears can only take the sound of countertenors in small doses.

What's a parson doing, nosing around a curate's business?

[cloughie]

What's a parson doing, nosing around a curate's business?

Twas always a parson where I come from.

[Bryn]

Twas always a parson where I come from.

The original:

[cloughie]

The original:

I believe we’ve had this discussion previously - I’m not for changing now!

[Pulcinella]

These vintage recordings featuring choral works by Handel with the AAM, Hogwood and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford are well worth having - now on a twofer which costs very little. Some of the finest music and recordings of this composer that I know.

If you like the sounds of Hogwood's version of 'Messiah', this is in the same vein. An absolute must for me.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Utrecht-Jub...=music&sr=1-24

I have these (apart from Alceste) on separate CDs, the Utrecht pieces as the fill-up to Vivaldi's Gloria.

And don't forget the Westminster Abbey/Preston Dettingen Te deum

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7930839--handel-dettingen-te-deum-anthem

and Dixit Dominus

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8048621--handel-dixit-dominus-nisi-dominus-salve-regina

(available in other couplings, but this is the 'original' Archiv release).

[oddoneout]

What's a parson doing, nosing around a curate's business?

Well the parson's nose is another part of the chicken and egg equation?

[Bryn]

Well the parson's nose is another part of the chicken and egg equation?

Quite. I chose my words with some care.

[Tantris]

LvB was a great admirer of Handel, and included a quotation from Messiah in the end of the Agnus Dei of the Missa Solemnis.

[Darkbloom]

I can't remember if it was this board or the Radio 3 version, but there used to be a very eccentric member who was a Handel obsessive and ran his own forum. You'd be assigned a military rank according to the volume of your posts and you weren't given the opportunity to discuss much that wasn't Handel-related in some way. I think it was called Classical Music Mayhem, if I remember correctly.