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# **Handel - Jephtha - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-jephtha-147140407?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-jephtha-147140407?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Jephtha***** (HWV 70): The Last Oratorio and a Work Written in Darkness (1751–1752)** **1. Handel at the Threshold of Silence…

# **Handel - Rodelinda - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodelinda-146977003?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rodelinda-146977003?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Power, Fidelity, and Moral Resistance in Handel’s Most Intimate Tragedy** **Rodelinda** (premiered in **London, 1725**) stands among the most **psychologically profound and emotionally concentrated** of…

# **Handel - Rinaldo - Nicholas McGegan** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rinaldo-146976726?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rinaldo-146976726?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Magic, Crusade, and the Birth of Italian Opera in London** **Rinaldo** occupies a unique and decisive place in Handel’s career: it was **his first Italian opera…

# **Handel - Partenope - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-partenope-146976461?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-partenope-146976461?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Partenope**, premiered in **London in 1730**, is one of Handel’s most original and audacious operas—not because of tragedy or heroic grandeur, but because of its…

# **Handel - Orlando - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-orlando-146976172?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-orlando-146976172?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Madness, Heroism, and the Collapse of the Baroque Ideal** **Orlando** is one of the most psychologically daring operas ever written by **George Frideric Handel**. Premiered…

# **Handel - Il pastor fido - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-il-pastor-146975888?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-il-pastor-146975888?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Il pastor fido** occupies a very particular place in the operatic output of **George Frideric Handel**. First performed in **1712** at the **Queen’s…

# **Handel - Floridante - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-nicholas-146975656?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-nicholas-146975656?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Floridante** was composed by **George Frideric Handel** in **1721** and premiered on **9 December 1721** at the **King’s Theatre, Haymarket**, London. It belongs to a…

# **Handel - Fire & Water - Nicholas McGegan - Scottish Chamber Orchestra ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-fire-146975563?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-fire-146975563?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Atalanta - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-atalanta-146975336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-atalanta-146975336?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **A Festive Opera with a Public Purpose** **Atalanta** was composed by **George Frideric Handel** in **1736** and premiered at the **King’s Theatre in London** on…

# **Handel - Dettinger Te Deum - (Version by Mendelssohn Bartholdy) - Nicholas McGegan ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-dettinger-146974703?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-dettinger-146974703?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-dettinger-146974703?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum (1743): Music, Politics, and Public Triumph** Handel composed the **Dettingen Te Deum** in **1743**…

# **Handel - Brockes Passion - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-brockes-146975002?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-brockes-146975002?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Handel’s **Brockes Passion** (*Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus*) is not a Passion in the later Bachian sense, but a…

# **Handel - Arianna in Creta - Nicholas McGegan** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-arianna-146974237?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-arianna-146974237?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) Composed by **George Frideric Handel** and premiered in London in **1734**, *Arianna in Creta* retells the ancient myth of **Ariadne and Theseus**, but reshapes…

# **Handel - Alcina (highlights) - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-146974060?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-146974060?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Arias with Avery Amereau - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-arias-146973739?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-arias-146973739?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Terpsicore, Alcina & Ariodante (Excerpts) - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-146973570?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-alcina-146973570?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 77 - 78 - 79 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146635765?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Symphony No. 77 in B-flat major, Hob. I:77 (c. 1781–1782)** **Confidence without display** Symphony No.…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 30 - 55 - 63 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146273857?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-146273857?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the early 1760s, **Joseph Haydn** had entered a decisive phase of his career. As Vice-Kapellmeister…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 26 - 35 - 49 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145812031?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145812031?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 22 - 29 - 60 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145811756?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145811756?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 23 - 24 - 61 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145811478?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145811478?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Conductor (and flutist) Nicholas McGegan fell in love with opera as a kid.** *It came by way of a newfangled record player and one heavenly Mozart recording: * **Herbert von Karajan's recording of…

# **NICHOLAS McGEGAN — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A narrative biography of one of the most influential Baroque conductors of our time* ## **Chapter 1 — Manchester Beginnings (1950)** Nicholas McGegan was born…

# **John Eliot Gardiner (left) with his successor Nicholas McGegan ** **In the year 1981, John Eliot Gardiner became the artistic director of the Göttingen festival. **With him, historical instruments and the contemporary understanding…

# **Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 6-7-8 - Northern Chamber Orchestra - Nicholas Ward ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145373602?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/haydn-symphonies-145373602?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)