An oratorio in three parts Musdc by Handel Libretto by CHARLES jeininens (gramophone records)
STOCKHOLM CHAMBER CHOIR
VIEWNA CON'CElNTUS MUSICUS conducted by NIKOLAUS HAJRNONCOURT Part 1
4.5* Charles Jennens of Gopsal DR DAVID KIMBELL of the University of Edinburgh talks about the character, achievement and extravagant life-style of Handel's most successful librettist (the man who provided him with texts for Saul, L'Allegro, Messiah and Belshazzar). Although richly endowed with the lesser vices of the age ', Charles Jennens was nevertheless an intellectual, an art connoisseur, a collector of music and ' he believed himself to be a poet '.
4.20* Belshazzar Part 2
5.10* Handel and Music
A short reading from The Note-Books of Samuel Butler , author of Erewhon
5.15* Belshazzar Part 3