Handel: He Knew Humanity - The Handel Scholar Winton Dean

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

Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: "Duet: Welcome as the dawn of day" (Queen, Solomon)

His personality

He was notorious for eating and drinking a lot

He was a man who liked his food

But JB Bach died in his sixties

The nons found him playing the organ

Lots of letters from Lord Shaftsbury

A profound dramatic thinker

Serse, HWV 40, Act I, Scene 1: "Frondi tenera e belle" (Serse)

Serse, HWV 40, Act I, Scene 1: "Ombra mai fu" (Serse)

Solomon, HWV 76, Act III: "Will the sun forget to streak" (Queen)

Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: "Chorus: Praise the Lord with harp and tongue!" (Chorus)