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# **Handel - Two Double Concertos "A Due Cori" - Overtures to Agrippina & Arianna - ASMF - Neville Marriner ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-two-due-147449794?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-two-due-147449794?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Der Messias - Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Stuttgart - Neville Marriner ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-der-radio-147448137?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-der-radio-147448137?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **The André Rieu Phenomenon: How to Popularize Classical Music and Attract Younger Audiences** **1. André Rieu as a Cultural Phenomenon** The extraordinary success of **André Rieu** cannot be understood merely in musical terms.…

# **Neville Marriner - The Argo Years [28CD Box Set] ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/neville-marriner-147376470?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/neville-marriner-147376470?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **CD 1** **George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)** Concerto grosso in B flat, Op.3, No.1, HWV 312 Concerto grosso in B flat,…

# **The John Eliot Gardiner Collection - Box Set 30 CDs ** **CD 1–2** **Monteverdi**: *Vespro della Beata Vergine*, SV 206 Michael Chance, Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Bryn Terfel Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists,…

# **John Eliot Gardiner - The Complete Recordings On Erato - Box Set 64 CDs ** **CD 1** **Purcell**: *Come ye sons of art* (Ode for Queen Mary’s Birthday, 1694), Z 323 **Purcell**: *Music…

# **Handel - Teseo (highlights) - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-teseo-147142014?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-teseo-147142014?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Teseo***** (HWV 9): Myth, Magic, and the First English-Style Handelian Opera (1712–1713)** **1. Handel in London: A Composer in…

# **Handel - Serse - The Hannover Band - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-serse-147141781?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-serse-147141781?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Serse***** (HWV 40): Irony, Intimacy, and the Twilight of Italian Opera (1737–1738)** **1. A Late Opera…

# **Handel - Saul - Nicholas McGegan** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-saul-147141303?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-saul-147141303?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-saul-147141303?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Saul***** (HWV 53): Power, Madness, and the Tragic Birth of the English Oratorio (1738–1739)** **1. A Decisive Moment in Handel’s Life**…

# **Handel - Samson - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-samson-147141466?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-samson-147141466?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Samson***** (HWV 57): Blindness, Inner Strength, and the Birth of Moral Tragedy (1741–1743)** **1. A Work Born at a Turning…

# **Handel - Solomon - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-solomon-147140986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-solomon-147140986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the late **1740s**, Handel was at the **absolute height of his artistic authority** in London. Having definitively abandoned Italian opera, he had reshaped English…

# **Handel - Messiah - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-messiah-147140865?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-messiah-147140865?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

# **Handel - Joseph and his Brethren - Nicholas McGegan ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-joseph-147140702?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-joseph-147140702?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-joseph-147140702?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Joseph and His Brethren***** (1743): Genesis, Context, and Meaning** **1. Historical Position in Handel’s Career** *Joseph and…

# **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…