Wednesday 14 March 2012

Mr Händel

For late night listening, Handel takes a lot of beating. His is probably amongst the least neurotic or angst-ridden music of the great musicans. I settled back happily this evening to 64 minutes of Duetti Amorosi sung by Lawrence Zazzo and the always admirable Nuria Rial. I felt quite sad when the 64 minutes were up. The conductor, Laurence Cummings, impresses less; Handel's music needs to flow, and Cummings seems to have too heavy a foot on the brake. Still, we are left with Zazzo, Rial and Handel which, in the end, is all one needs apart from a glass of J&B scotch.

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