Critic Lloyd Schwartz tells a story about Lezhneva, a Russian singer he "discovered" a few months ago — without realizing he already owned a 2015 recording of her rendition of Handel's early oratorio.

Although I appreciate Handel’s extraordinary gift for composing beautiful music, I often find his works, especially his oratorios but also some of his operas, overlong, tedious and downright boring.

Three Faces of Handel” will include music from Handel’s Messiah, Water Music and two anthems: “Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline” and “Foundling Hospital Anthem.” The LCPC Orchestra will perform ...

Handel’s Fireworks music, which helped start a conflagration and a crowd panic at its premiere in 1749, is still inspiring conductors to extravagant displays. Stokowski plays it with an orchestra of ...

Frenchman Henri Casadesus wore several hats: composer, violist and skillful musical mimic. In 1924, Casadesus (1879-1947) unveiled what he claimed to be a long-missing work by George Frideric Handel ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Conductor Kristjan Jarvi sometimes imagines sitting in the audience for a concert and thinking that if he wasn't up on stage, he wouldn't want to be there. That's when he brings on ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

Dennis E. Northway decided over a quarter century ago that if Evanston could have an annual Bach Week Festival at an Episcopal church, Oak Park could have a Handel Week Festival at an Episcopal church ...