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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

Kate Molleson

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Composer of the Week: Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Episode 4: 1739

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Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

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Episode 4: 1739

1739

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759), 1739

Donald Macleod explores Handel's life in 1739. Featuring The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.

Donald Macleod explores Handel's life in 1739. With a performance of Handel's most popular organ concerto, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.

Donald Macleod introduces the year 1739 in Handel's life, a year when London froze and played havoc with the music season. Featuring a performance of his most popular organ concerto, "The Cuckoo And The Nightingale"; Handel's setting of Dryden's "A Song For Saint Cecilia's Day"; and a real rarity - the composer's "pasticcio" opera "Jupiter In Argos", recorded for the first time only in 2006.

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Donald Macleod explores the music of Handel through five key 'years in the life'.

Donald Macleod explores the music of Handel through five key 'years in the life' of the composer: 1707, 1717, 1725, 1739 and 1749

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