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A Lenten oratorio which scandalised London is just one of the choices included in Chi-chi Nwanoku's selection of Radio 3 listeners' favourite Handel moments.

Playlist:

Handel: Solomon (Act 3; Symfony (Arrival of the Queen of Sheba)
Gabrieli Consort and Players
Paul McCreesh (director)
Archiv 4596882, CD3, Tr 1

Handel: Where'er you walk (Semele)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
Dutton Laboratories, CDCLP4003, Tr 3

Handel arr Leonard Rosenman: Saraband (Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV437)
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Bateman (conductor)
Silva Screen FILMCD303, Tr 5

Handel: O thou brightest sun - with darkness deep (Theodora); Melissa's aria Destero dall'empia Dite (Amadigi di Gaula)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque
Andrea Marcon (director)
Archiv 477 6547, Trs 7 and 8

Handel: Concerto grosso, Op 6 No 6
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini (director)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 478 0319, CD2, Trs 1-5

Handel: Alcina (excerpt from Act 1)
Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano)
City of London Baroque Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)
EMI CDS 749771 2, CD1, Trs 1-3

Handel: Chandos Anthem No 10 (The Lord is my light)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (director)
Chandos, CHAN05547, CD4, Trs 1-9

Handel: Gentle Morpheus (Alceste)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)
L'Oiseau-Lyre 4214792, Tr 8

Handel/Halvorsen: Passacaglia (Adaptated from Suite No 7 in G minor)
Nigel Kennedy (violin)
Lynn Harrell (cello)
EMI CDC5569632, Tr 5

Handel: Excerpts from Semele:
No 3 (Act 1, Sc 1) Chorus: Lucky Omens
No 24 (Act 2, opening) Sinfonia
No 70 (Act 3, Sc 8) Chorus: O terror
No 74 (Act 3, Sc 9) Sinfonia
No 76 (Act 3, Sc 9) Chorus: Happy Happy shall we be
Chorus of the Early Opera Company
Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn (conductor)
Chandos CHAN07453, CD1 Tr 5; CD3, Trs 26, 30, 32.

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