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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

OF Handel's oratorios, Belshazzar is by no means the most frequently performed yet is by far the most operatic - a work, it has been said, fit to place beside Wagner's Ring in its portrayal of the ...

Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r - Help, help the king! Behold! (from Belshazzar) Ye sages, welcome always - Alas, too hard a task the king imposes - Oh misery! Oh terror, hopeless grief!

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 ...

Music lovers in the Bay Area eager for the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to present an evening-length oratorio by Handel finally got their wish last weekend at Berkeley’s First Congregational Church, ...

Which is a shame, because it’s a rare delight these days to see Christie perform in London with the group that played such an important part in reviving the fortunes of the early music movement. While ...