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Radio 3,56 mins

Series George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

George Frideric Handel: Oratorios

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Donald Macleod explores Handel's oratorios, beginning with his work in Rome as a young man. Then, Handel's accidental conception of the English oratorio, and how, following a five-year break from composition, Handel wrote the oratorio; Saul, Belshazzar and Messiah. Finally, Donald Macleod explores Handel’s warlike works and his late burst of masterpieces.

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