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Handel and the Bards

BBC Radio 3
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Some of Handel's settings of The Bible, Milton, Congreve and Dryden, plus his effect on two later master-composers. With excerpts from The Occasional Oratorio, Samson, Semele, and Alexander's Feast; arrangements of his music by Mozart; Beethoven's Overture: The Consecration of the House; and Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day: jill GOMEZ (soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) KING'S COLLEGE CHOIR
ECO/PHILIP LEDGER: records

Source: Radio Times

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