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Posted by Schogger13 on January 04, 19103 at 22:58:33:
After all the ridiculously unimaginative as well as uneducated comments on the master, I felt inclined to add a comment of my own.
As I am writing this, "Israel In Egypt" performed by Andrew Parrott's Taverner Players floods my headphones with the most devine sounds I've heard for a long - long - time.
Parrott as well as John Eliot Gardiner's English Baroque Soloists's Handel performances form the base of what I'd consider the musical cream of the last two decades, as far as Handel is concerned.
Where Bach is the undisputed master of sophistication and timeless quality as well as beauty of music..., Handel stays the unchalleneged master of achingly beautiful melody - 'blue' melody... melancholy.
Only Purcell could reach similar hights.
Oh, the sweetness... the pain and the beauty of sound beyond mere reason.
There is a reason why Handel wasn't buried in Halle, but in Westminster Abbey.
He was an English composer by choice as much as Purcell was one by birth as well as belief.
Who's with me in praise of the eternal masters?
Schogger13
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