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George Frideric Handel

July 2024

  • Elizabeth Karani (Galatea), centre, in Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel @ Opera Holland Park. Directed by Louise Bakker. Conductor, Michael Papadopoulos. (Opening 19-07-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 07-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Acis and Galatea review – a hectic take on Handel’s perfectly formed confection

  • Elim Chan conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra baton-free.

    First Night of the Proms review – a thrilling adventure ride

June 2024

  • Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Louise Alder in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne

    The week in classical: Giulio Cesare; Così fan tutte; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung – review

  • Tom Hulce, as Mozart, seen conducting in front of a packed theatre, in Milos Forman’s Amadeus. The 1984 film won eight Oscars.

    Rock on, Shostakovich, Handel, Ravel: lives of great composers hit the screens

April 2024

  • Mary Bevan as Aci, Claudia Huckle as Galatea and Callum Thorpe as Polifemo onstage with a projection of the play behind

    Aci by the River review – just add water for a stylish rethink of Handel

    Riveting performances underpin a gratifyingly meta version of Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, retold around a Docklands film shoot

February 2024

  • Magdalena Kožená.

    Handel: Alcina album review – Magdalena Kožená is a tour de force

    Keeping the emotion foremost while relishing the shape of the music, Kožená has great support from Erin Morley and Elizabeth DeShong

December 2023

  • The first European performance of the Gospel Messiah with Marin Alsop and the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the London Adventist Chorale at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 December 2023

    The Guardian picture essay
    Hallelujah! The Gospel Messiah comes to the UK – a photo and audio essay

    Handel with Hammond organ and hand claps. Scatting and swing. Five saxophones – this is Messiah, but not perhaps as you know it. Marin Alsop’s Gospel Messiah had its European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall on 7 December, ahead of a broadcast on BBC Radio 3

November 2023

  • A scene from Jephtha by Handel @ Royal Opera House. Directed by Oliver Mears. Conducted by Laurence Cummings. (Opening 08-11-2023) ©Tristram Kenton 10-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Jephtha review – Clayton is magnificent as a wide-eyed zealot

    Oliver Mears’s powerful but flawed staging of Handel’s biblical oratorio boasts very fine singing and performances, with Jennifer France’s Iphis and Allan Clayton’s Jephtha standouts

October 2023

  • Catherine Bennett

    Better call Saul off, but isn’t this opera exactly why trigger warnings were invented?

    Catherine Bennett
    A student production of Handel’s work about the Israelite king has been cancelled in case of parallels with Middle East war

August 2023

  • Prom 50 Handel's Samson Prom 50 Cr. Sisi Burn (9) Allan Clayton Samson (tenor) Jacquelyn Stucker Dalila (soprano) Joélle Harvey Israelite Woman (soprano) Jess Dandy Micah (contralto) Brindley Sherratt Harapha (bass) Jonathan Lemalu Manoa (bass-baritone) Will Pate Messenger (baritone) Philharmonia Chorus Academy of Ancient Music Laurence Cummings harpsichord/director

    Prom 50: Samson review – humour, chewy harmonies and Handel at his best

    Allan Clayton’s rich tenor defied the tricksy acoustics of the great hall, while the Philharmonia Chorus were truly outstanding

July 2023

  • a theatre set made of cubes with the periodic table projected on to it, and a singer dressed as a schoolboy stood to the top right of the set

    The week in classical: Itch; Semele; Prom 16: Hallé/Elder – review

  • Joélle Harvey (Semele) and Stuart Jackson (Jove) in Handel’s Semele.

    Semele review – outstanding mezzos enliven dour take on Handel’s tale of desire

June 2023

  • Public demonstration of Thomas Edison's phonograph, Crystal Palace, London, 1888.

    From the Guardian archive
    The first known recording of classical music – archive, 1888

    On 29 June 1888, an excerpt from Handel’s Israel in Egypt was captured on wax cylinder at London’s Crystal Palace
  • A monument to George Frideric Handel by Louis-François Roubiliac (1762) in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London.

    Brief letters
    The joys of autocorrect: Handel’s Dixit Dominus

    Letters: Dixie dominoes | Cover versions | Love’s Labour’s lost | Speaking in Pigeon | Woking Pizza Express | Nice prices
  • Le Concert Spirituel, conducted by Hervé Niquet.

    Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet review – Handel fit (literally) for a King

    The newly crowned monarch took a seat for a superbly considered programme of Handel’s ceremonial music, played and sung with due fervour and sincerity

May 2023

  • Pile of newspapers

    Brief letters
    Guardian readers who are in it for life

  • The Ascension gospel choir singing the new commission Alleluia by Debbie Wiseman during the coronation

    Standards and premieres galore as music takes centre stage at coronation

  • Handel's kitchen with a drying rack on the wall, a heating device in the corner and baskets of vegetables

    Lamb’s ears, eel pie and plenty of claret: London museum showcases Handel’s love of food

  • Embroidered screens are put in place by military personnel in red coats at Westminster Abbey

    Who was Zadok the Priest who inspired Handel’s anthem played at King Charles’s coronation?

April 2023

  • James Bowman

    James Bowman obituary

    Countertenor with a clean, focused and lyrical approach to both early and new music, including roles in two Britten operas
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