1888: The earliest known musical recording is made. The piece, Georg Friedrich Handel's Israel in Egypt, is recorded on a paraffin cylinder. Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s epic—the first ...

Georg Friedrich Händel was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi and organ ...

Happy 330th birthday to George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) – or is it George Frederick Handel, or Georg Friedrich Häendel? Whatever you call him, he’s certainly one of the greatest Baroque Era ...

George Frideric Handel was a young man of 21 when he composed the opera FLORINDO AND DAPHNE. Lost for centuries, parts were rediscovered in 1983 in the British Library. You’ll hear selections from the ...

Catherine Bott explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial and frequent musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright would likely be condemned as plagiarism.

Hallelujah! This week, the composer whose music illuminated Georgian London, and who refined the art of bringing emotion alive in works that still resonate for us today A German composer who brought ...

The year is 1709. The place is Rome. Two musical heavyweights are pitted against one another in a trial of skill... Andrew Manze explores the extraordinary contest which took place between two of the ...