Anthony Burton and guests explore aspects of Handel's operas - works which spanned the whole range of his composing career and are now re-emerging onto the operatic stage.
5: Desmond Shawe-Taylor talks about Handel's contemporaries and cultural life in 18th-century London. Including excerpts from Acis and Galatea, Flavio and L 'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato. Repeated from last Friday