This is FRESH AIR. Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says he's not listening to a lot of classical music during the pandemic, but a couple of recent recordings of works that go back to such ...
On March 14, the Seattle Choral Company presents Baroque Brilliance, an exhilarating evening of sacred music by two giants of the Baroque era: Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. This ...
"Messiah is unique in the canon of Western music," writes Maestro Richman. "Performed every year since its premiere in 1742 to ever-growing audiences, its appeal knows no boundaries." The first ...
The Bach Collegium San Diego celebrates the Easter season with George Frideric Handel’s dramatic oratorio “The Resurrection,” with three performances next weekend in San Diego and Los Angeles.
As Handel once remarked when congratulated on the success of a “Messiah” performance: “I should be sorry if I only entertained them – I wish to make them better.” The Bach Choir of Bethlehem, in its ...
George Frideric Handel was the most successful operatic composer of the Baroque era, yet for two centuries after his death, he was chiefly known to concertgoers for his instrumental suites (such as ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Bach and Handel did not lead intersecting lives. Bach never left central Germany, while Handel became a cosmopolitan Londoner. Bach was a man of the church and had 20 children. Handel caught the ...
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