Handel: He Knew Humanity - The Handel Scholar Winton Dean

"Handel: He Knew Humanity - The Handel Scholar Winton Dean album by Alfred Deller on Fair Music Project"

Release Date: 2026-02-14T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Sosarme, re di Media, HWV 30, Act I: "Ouverture - Allegro"
  • Sosarme, re di Media, HWV 30, Act I: "Ouverture - Menuet"
  • Solomon, HWV 67, Act I: "Chorus: May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours" (Chorus)
  • I do not know what you know about Handel
  • The occasion was a stage performance Handel's Saul in the year 1937
  • A man playing David
  • At the end of the ouverture
  • And then the chorus sings
  • Thou shalt bring them in
  • If they get good editors
  • He was a funny old boy
  • Solomon, HWV 67, "Aria: Golden columns, fair and bright" (Zadok)
  • He was not obviously rude to singers
  • He did not normally produce operas
  • Sosarme, HWV 30, Act II, Scene 8: "Duetto: Per le porte del tormento" (Sosarme, Elmira)
  • A performance of the oratorio «Saul» in Cambridge in 1937
  • It would be no exaggeration
  • In his country house an hour's journey from London
  • Winton Dean was born on March 16th 1916
  • The publication in 1959
  • Today, even at the age of 9
  • Semele, HWV 58, Act I, Scene 4: "Aria: Endless peasure, endless love" (Semele)
  • I heared Beecham
  • Beecham had a brass playing in the second recitative
  • Handel was a master of the orchestra
  • Sir Arthur Bliss
  • I said to Sir Arthur
  • Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: "Sinfonia: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
  • I went to two Salzburg Festival before the war
  • I remember the italian one had a wonderful cast
  • Falstaff was marvelous
  • They set a standard
  • Semele, HWV 58, Act III, Scene 9: "Sinfonia"
  • Semele, HWV 58, Act III, Scene 9: "Recitative: Apollo comes to relieve your care" (Apollo)
  • Semele, HWV 58, Act III, Scene 9: "Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus of Priests)
  • Memoirs of the Life of the late George Frederic Handel: Title Page
  • Memoirs of the Life of the late George Frederic Handel: The hopes of rendering some service to music
  • Memoirs of the Life of the late George Frederic Handel: "Yet a single glimps of the catalogue"
  • Memoirs of the Life of the late George Frederic Handel: It may also serve to put future artists
  • Memoirs of the Life of the late George Frederic Handel: Little indeed
  • Sosarme, HWV 30, Act III, Scene 10: "Duetto: Tu caro caro sei il dolce mio tesoro" (Sosarme, Elmira)
  • The only production I had a little say in
  • In Handel's time the curtain never fell during an act
  • We must not pauses between
  • We rehearsed the entire recitatives
  • James Bowman (Cesare) and Felicity Lott (Cleopatra)
  • Semele, HWV 58, Act II, Scene 3: "Aria: Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade" (Jupiter)
  • After the war there was a stage production of Solomon
  • And when the queen of Sheeba came over in the last act
  • A friend of mine, who was a music teacher, called Philip Radcliffe