Famous Four: Oh, No! Not Again?

[doversoul1]

It's in the Radio Times :)

Welcome to the Forum

I don’t have Radio Times. The last copy I looked at (it must have been in the last century) was TV Times in all but the name and I don’t watch TV. However, if the playlist is in Radio Time, why on earth can’t it be published on the website?

As it was, Agrippina was discussed on the programme yesterday (Thursday), and if there are members here who are new to Handel’s operas, like I am, this is worth listening:

Handel Operas
Catherine Bott and Laurence Cummings explore Handelian opera seria - or serious opera. This was the dominant operatic form in the 18th Century, with its own rhetoric and conventions, and would have been widely understood and appreciated then.

With soprano, Rebecca Outram and countertenor, Andrew Radley, Catherine and Laurence consider examples from a range of different operas by Handel suggesting ways in which the composer transformed the operatic conventions of his day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gn2l8

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if there are members here who are new to Handel’s operas, like I am,

I'm taken aback, doversoul - I always consider you to be the voice of early music on the board, & I'm surprised that you haven't encountered the operas before

[doversoul1]

I always liked early music but it is only when I joined this forum that I ‘focused’ on it. I shout about as I do because it is all new and wonderful to me. Opera is the latest addition to my listening list.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I shout about as I do because it is all new and wonderful to me.

... and the glorious thing is: it stays "new and wonderful"!

[Boilk]

Pelham Humfrey (Purcell's teacher)
Biagio Marini
Dario Castello
Antonio Cesti ... "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation"

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Quote Originally Posted by doversoul View Post
I shout about as I do because it is all new and wonderful to me.

... and the glorious thing is: it stays "new and wonderful"!

Seconded