Dr Johnson once remarked: "A man who has not seen Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see." Donald Macleod recounts the story of Handel's Italian years and how he went on to make his spectacular arrival in London. Agrippina (excerpt)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Lascia Ch 70 Pianga (Rinaldo) Maria Bayo (soprano), Capriccio Stravagante , conductor Skip Sempe
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne Emma Kirkby and Judith Nelson
(sopranos), Margaret Cable (mezzo),
Shirley Minty (contralto), James Bowman and Charles Brett (countertenors),
Paul Elliott , Martyn Hill and Rogers Covey-Crump (tenors), David Thomas (bass), Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston Water Music (excerpt) Le Concert des Nations, director Jordi Savall