In this Handel News Article from January 2017 Tobias Wolff discusses the past and the future of the Göttingen Handel festival.
Continue reading “The Göttingen Handel Festival: Brief History and Centenary Plans”Which Is The Slower Tempo: Adagio Or Largo
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Dr Graham Pont relates the differences of opinion that have existed for several hundred years about the comparative speeds of musical movements.
Continue reading “Which Is The Slower Tempo: Adagio Or Largo”Creating Deborah
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Matthew Gardner examines how Handel created the oratorio Deborah.
Continue reading “Creating Deborah”Was Handel Bi-polar?
In this Handel News article from January 2017 David Hunter examines the claims that Handel was suffering from bi-polar disorder.
Continue reading “Was Handel Bi-polar?”Charles Jennens Returns To Foremarke
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Susan Bloor and Ruth Smith relate how Charles Jennens, Handel’s librettist, has a music centre named after him, with a copy of his portrait, in the school that occupies the property that was once his mother’s home.
Continue reading “Charles Jennens Returns To Foremarke”All Of Handel’s Operas, In New York
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Jennifer Peterson talks about her project to do all of Handel’s operas in New York.
Continue reading “All Of Handel’s Operas, In New York”Music In Halle Before Handel
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Mark Windisch examines the highs and lows of music in Handel’s hometown of Halle.
Continue reading “Music In Halle Before Handel”‘The Finest Composition Of Musick That Was Ever Heard’: Ireland’s Role In Securing Handel’s Messiah For Posterity
In this Handel News article from January 2017 Dr Jonathan Bardon analyses how Messiah was validated by Handel’s trip to Dublin in 1741 to conduct a benefit concert in the new music hall.
Continue reading “‘The Finest Composition Of Musick That Was Ever Heard’: Ireland’s Role In Securing Handel’s Messiah For Posterity”