Doubling as vocalist and conductor, Angiolini is joined by fine singers in this rarely recorded late work. Giacomo Nanni’s sonorous ‘Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori’ is a particular highlight ...

One of London’s quirkiest museums is the Handel Hendrix House, adjoining Georgian townhouses that two of the world’s greatest musicians, George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix, used to call home. The ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

After the king’s death in 1727, Handel was commissioned to compose Zadok the Priest for the coronation of George II. The anthem has been sung at every British coronation ever since. Handel’s most ...

Unlike Handel's fellow countryman and contemporary Johann Bach (the two were born the same year but never met), Handel never had a musical family. George's father was a practical "surgeon-barber" who ...

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 ...

Paul McCreesh gives a conductor's perspective on Handel... One of the moments I think I became aware that Handel is a great dramatic composer was when Christopher Hogwood’s recording of Messiah came ...

I recall walking through the lobby of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel around 1978, when TVs were blasting the Israeli broadcast premiere of Handel’s “Messiah.” Sung in Hebrew and played by the Israel ...