Handel, search and destroy.

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Handel's "Messiah" is one of those things that's so familiar, I can barely hear it. I've long liked his Largo (from Xerxes). But recently I heard his opera Ottone and was very, very impressed. Where to next?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Julius Caesar

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

so anne sofie von otter in handel's serse this month at the theatre de champs-elysees. should i go? cheap seats are 32 euro.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 13 November 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I fuckin' hate the Messiah.

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 13 November 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Water Music" rules!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 November 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

why so many arias, when the massed choruses are just MILES better

handel, you do not know how to pace a narrative

dan perry may sb me now

― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Monday, 16 November 2009 00:26 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

lj otm wrt the massed choruses

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 14 December 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

currently enjoying the utrecht te deum

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 14 December 2012 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

favorite

http://www.amazon.com/Trionfo-Del-Tempo-Concerto-Italiano/dp/B000LE0TEM/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t

― Milton Parker, Friday, 14 December 2012 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

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