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Composer of the Week: Handel

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

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.
3: David Alden discusses the drama and characterisation in Handel's operas and uncovers a comic vein.
With excerpts from Ariodante, Amadigi and Tamerlano.
Repeated from last Wednesday

Contributors

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Anthony Burton
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David Alden
Source: Radio Times

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