Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem (Recitative: Cyrus) - Handel: Belshazzar (Act I) Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates (Recit./Accomp.: Cyrus) - Handel: Belshazzar (Act I) Now Tell Me, ...

Even among the lofty company of Handel's other oratorios, "Belshazzar" is a stunner. Grandiose, intellectually ambitious and packed with music of astonishing beauty and variety, this is one of the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If Handel was with us today, he would surely be in his element writing oratorios for the BBC Proms. It is not just ...

But as a fully-staged piece, as The Grange Festival’s director Michael Chance reminded us after Saturday’s performance, Handel’s story of the fall of Babylon, the triumph of the Persian leader Cyrus, ...

That Adelaide has only now experienced Belshazzar, Handel's mighty oratorio of the fall of Babylon, is not really surprising. The oratorios of Handel are demanding, and Messiah, the only one in ...

Abbott, who is widely respected as an interpreter of Handel’s music, brought out the various affects of the work wonderfully, with a clear, controlled conducting style. The orchestra played with ...

Many of the choruses are undermined by Jacobs’s decision to have important lines sung by a group of soloists; this incorrectly applied practice is liberally daubed all over proceedings, and ruins the ...

This year’s festival opened with Handel’s dramatic Oratorio Belshazzar, based on the Old Testament story of Belshazzar’s feast, with singers, orchestra and chorus grouped in front of the altar. Tenor ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All kinds of works are turning up in opera houses these days which were not intended to be there. A case in ...

Conductor Graham Abbott’s affinity with the music of Handel was obvious in Adelaide Philharmonia Chorus’s performance of Belshazzar. Abbott, who is widely respected as an interpreter of Handel’s music ...