Handel: Arias from Alcina, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare and Serse Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras, conductor (Forlane). This generally appealing recital ...
(SOUNDBITE OF HANDEL'S "LA RESURREZIONE (1708), HWV 47 / PARTE PRIMA: 'DISSERRATEVI, O PORTE D'AVERNO'") GROSS: Sometimes we can overlook something that's right under our noses. Classical music critic ...
This is a Handel year, the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. We remember George Frideric Handel primarily for his oratorio, "Messiah," one of the greatest masterpieces in the classical canon.