1/5. Donald Macleod looks at the music Handel wrote in connection with his several patrons. Ecclesiastics and noble families controlled the machinery of patronage in Rome in 1707, when Handel arrived there; among them, the rich and influential Cardinal Pamphili.
Dixit Dominus, HWV232 (excerpt)
Westminster Abbey Choir and Orchestra, conductor Simon Preston
11 Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a (excerpt) Deborah York and Gemma Bertagnolli (sopranos), Sara Mingardo (alto),
Nicholas Sears (tenor), Concerto Italiano, director Rinaldo Alessandrini
Per Te Lasciaila Luce (II Delirio Amoroso , HWV99) Magdalena Kozena (soprano), Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
Producer Megan Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight