The Handel Collection: Incls 'Coronation Anthems', 'Alexander's Feast' & 'Samson' [12 CDs special price]

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The Handel Collection: Incls 'Coronation Anthems', 'Alexander's Feast' & 'Samson' [12 CDs special price]
Sarah Connolly (soprano) / The Sixteen / The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Harry Christophers

[ Coro The Sixteen Edition / 12 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Monday 1 March 2010

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Eight of The Sixteen's celebrated Handel recordings in one beautiful boxed set edition.

Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have long been celebrated for their recordings and performances of Handel. Over the past three decades Harry Christophers and his award-winning ensemble have expanded their Handel repertoire to take in his greatest works and have performed them to audiences across the globe from the UK, Europe and the Middle East to Australia and Japan. They have also made numerous celebrated recordings of Handel's masterpieces and this twelve CD boxed set features a selection of some of their finest discs along with three remarkable solo albums featuring The Sixteen's celebrated orchestra and acclaimed sopranos Sarah Connolly, Ann Murray and Elin Manahan Thomas.

Tracks:

Samson
(with Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George & Jonathan Best)
Israel in Egypt, HWV54
Esther (1718 version)
(with Lynda Russell, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Tom Randle, Mark Padmore, Matthew Vine, Simon Berridge, Michael George, Robert Evans & Simon Birchall)
Alexander's Feast
(with Nancy Argenta, Ian Partridge & Michael George)
Coronation Anthems Nos. 1-4
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon)
Organ Concerto No. 4 in F major, HWV292, Op. 4 No. 4

and much much more.

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