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Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel

Richard Wistreich

2020 · album · 50 tracks

Tracks

  1. 1Title Page0:33
  2. 2Birth and First Adventure of the Six Year Old4:29
  3. 3First Test at the Duke of Saxe-Weißenfels2:45
  4. 4Decision to Foster His Musical Talent2:59
  5. 5Apprenticeship in Halle with Zachau3:59
  6. 6At Court in Berlin with Buononcini and Ariosti3:41
  7. 7Refusal of the Kings Sponsorship2:41
  8. 8The Hamburg Opera3:52
  9. 9Situation at the Hamburg Opera1:15
  10. 10Squabbles in Hamburg and a Commission3:44
  11. 11Handel's Operas in Hamburg1:57
  12. 12Contact with a Tuscan Prince2:39
  13. 13Setting Out for Italy0:33
  14. 14A Glance at Music in Italy and in France6:47
  15. 15Florence1:07
  16. 16Rodrigo1:04
  17. 17Venice0:48
  18. 18Agrippina1:46
  19. 19Rome Encounters with Corelli2:35
  20. 20Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno1:15
  21. 21Encounters with Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti3:00
  22. 22At the Cardinals Colonna & Pamphilii / Attempts at Conversion / La resurrezione3:06
  23. 23More of Italy2:55
  24. 24Engagement at the Hanoverian Court / Visits to Halle & Düsseldorf4:26
  25. 25First Journey to London / State of Music There3:00
  26. 26Rinaldo and a Sketch of the Librettist Rossi5:11
  27. 27Back in Hanover1:20
  28. 28Second Journey to England1:47
  29. 29Handel's Unwillingness to Return to Germany / The Elector of Hanover Becomes King of England2:05
  30. 30Water Music1:22
  31. 31Acquaintance with Lord Burlington, Pope and the Duke of Chandos4:35
  32. 32To Dresden in Quest of Singers0:44
  33. 33Radamisto2:03
  34. 34Academy at the Haymarket Theatre4:58
  35. 35Quarrels with Senesino & Cuzzoni4:20
  36. 36A Company with Heidegger / New Singers from Italy / Move to Lincoln's Inn Fields3:09
  37. 37Move to Covent Garden / Crisis of Self-Confidence4:38
  38. 38Cure in Aachen1:26
  39. 39New Attempts at the Haymarket Theatre3:44
  40. 40A Turn of Attention to Oratorio3:02
  41. 41Dublin (Messiah Benefit Concert)2:09
  42. 42Return to London / Applause for Oratorios1:34
  43. 43Messiah for the Foundling Hospital / Death2:03
  44. 44Blindness / Loss of Appetite / The Character of the Man to Explain the Artist4:49
  45. 45Catalog of Works Overview & General Remarks2:00
  46. 46List of Works7:41
  47. 47Observations on the Works4:48
  48. 48Quotation with a Comparison of German and Italian Styles / Handel's Preference for the Italian3:31
  49. 49Italian Music Since Palestrina3:45
  50. 50Interaction Between Handel & the Italians / Handel's Particular Mastery in Choral & Sacred Music1:45