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Catherine Bott explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright is likely to have been plagiaristic.

Playlist:

Handel: His yoke is Easy (Messiah)
Dawson/ Denley/ James/ Davies/ George (soloists)
The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra
Harry Christophers (conductor)
Hyperion CDD22019 CD1 Tr 22

Handel: Italian Duet: Quel fior che all'alba ride, HWV192 (1st mvt)
Patricia Petibon
Anna Maria Panzarella
Le Concert d'Astree
Emmanuelle Haim (conducto)
Virgin Classics 5455242 Tr 9

Handel: Pastoral symphony/Pifa (Messiah)
Dawson/ Denley/ James/ Davies/ George (soloists)
The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra
Harry Christophers (conductor)
Hyperion CDD22019 CD 1 Tr 13

Segue to:

Playford: Parthenia (The Dancing Master)
The Broadside Band
Amon Ra CDSAR28 Tr 6 (excerpt)

Telemann: Musique de table - concerto for threeviolins (excerpt)
Camerata of 18th Century
Konrad Hunteler (conductor)
MD&G MDG31105802 CD 3 Tr 5 (excerpt)

Handel: Sinfonie: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
ARCHIV 459688-2 CD 3 Tr 1

Telemann: Flute Sonata (Musique de Table)
Camerata of 18th Century
Konrad Hunteler (conductor)
MD&G MDG31105802 CD 2 Tr 5, 8

Handel: Organ Concerto HWV 304 (1st and last mvt)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Bob Van Asperen (conductor)
Virgin Classics VCD5452362 CD 2 Tr 15, 17

Gottlieb Muffat: Trio (II componimenti musicali)
Ruso (harpsichord)
TREC40005 Tr 14

Handel: Theodora (trio from Ouverture)
Les Arts Florissant
William Christie (conductor)
ERATO 0927431812 CD 1 Tr 2

Handel: Egypt was glad (Israel in Egypt)
The Sixteen
Orchestra of the Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
COLLINS CLASSICS 70352 CD 1 Tr 2

Kerll: Fourth Canzona
Haselbock (organ)
NOVALIS 1500942 Tr 13

Handel: Concerto grosso, HWV327 (final gigue)
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC 835603
CD3 Tr 6

Corelli: Concerto grosso No 12 (giga)
Modo Antiquo
Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor)
Tactus TC 650308 Tr 37

Handel: The Ways of Zion do Mourn (Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline): II The Ways of Zion do Mourn
Alsfelder Vokalensemble
Barockorchester Bremen
Wolfgang Helbich (conductor)
CPO 9992442 Tr 2 (excerpt)

Mozart: Requiem (Introitus)
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Vienna Philharmonic
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 4336882 Tr 1 (excerpt)

Articles on Handel's borrowings:

The Case for Handel's Borrowings: the Judgement of Three Centuries
George J Buelow

Why Did Handel Borrow?
John H Roberts

Both articles are compiled in:
Handel: Tercentenary Collection (Ed Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks)
Published 1987
Boydell & Brewer
ISBN:083571833

Another Handel Borrowing from Telemann? - Capital Gains
Ian Payne
The Musical Times, Vol 142, No 1874 (Spring, 2001), pp. 33-42 (article consists of 10 pages).

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