Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale's new music director Peter Whelan admires Handel's 1728 masterpiece "Tolomeo," an ...

“A VIEW of the FIRE-WORKES and ILLUMINATIONS at his GRACE the Duke of RICHMOND’S at WHITEHALL and on the River Thames on Monday 15 May 1749. Performed by the direction of Charles Fredrick Esq.” The ...

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra came to Caramoor with Handel’s “Tolomeo,” a far-fetched opera seria with a lively score.

Lead poisoning is blamed for Handel's temper but it's unlikely it affected his work. The truth is that the composer was an obsessive workaholic Handel's temper, his blindness, and his gout were caused ...

Although Handel's Messiah has become synonymous with charity, it's the music that really matters How Handel's Messiah helped London's orphans – and vice versa Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, is one of ...

Paul McCreesh gives a conductor's perspective on Handel... One of the moments I think I became aware that Handel is a great dramatic composer was when Christopher Hogwood’s recording of Messiah came ...

No work of western classical music is more closely associated with the Christmas season than German-born composer George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, which premiered in 1742. This was in the wake of ...

Hannah French delves into the history and musical detail of one of Handel's best-known pieces: his Water Music, first performed for King George I in London in July 1717. Show more Hannah French delves ...

I recall walking through the lobby of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel around 1978, when TVs were blasting the Israeli broadcast premiere of Handel’s “Messiah.” Sung in Hebrew and played by the Israel ...

It is nearly 300 years since George I commissioned Handel to write some occasional music for his ceremonial barge journey down the Thames. This performance does not reproduce that event — the Water ...