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Composer of the Week: Handel

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3/5. On his second visit to England, Handel lived in Burlington House, Piccadilly, where "at dinner he sat down with men of the first eminence for genius and abilities of any in the kingdom".
Donald Macleod looks at the music associated with this period of Handel's career.
Overture: /I Pastor F/do; Cara Sposa (Rinaldo); Amadigi di Gaula , Act 2 (excerpt) Repeated from Wednesday at 12 noon

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Donald MacLeod
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Cara Sposa
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Amadigi Di Gaula
Source: Radio Times

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