1: This week Donald Macleod looks at
Handel's years in Italy from 1706 to 1710, discusses many of the works he wrote there, and considers how this brief phase in Handel's development had a profound influence on his subsequent career.
Handel Guardian Angels, Oh Protect Me (The Triumph of Time and Truth, HVW71) Gillian Fisher (soprano), London Handel Orchestra, conductor Denys Darlow Zachow Praeludium in G Lena Jacobson (organ)
Handel Vedrai S 'a Tuo Dispetto (Almira) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Brandenburg Consort , conductor Roy Goodman
Dixit Dominus , HWV232 Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Producer Lyndon Jones