It's probably the most-heard piece of classical music on Earth, the most sung, and the most recorded. It's "Messiah," by German-British opera composer George Frideric Handel. "It has been in near ...

Life and Music Handel was born in the German city of Halle on February ... Serse (Xerxes), and other works often based on classical stories. In the 1730s and 1740s Handel turned to the oratorio which ...

No one today knows the name of one of the great, unsung heroes of the classical music canon — the composer George Frideric Handel’s tailor. Without the garment-maker, the world would never ...

Classical music was the fastest-growing genre in 2018, figures released by the recording industry show. Buoyed by the likes of Andrea Bocelli, Katherine Jenkins and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason ...

The inherent contrast between the classical and electronic underpins and complements the entire plot of Challengers, which explores the conflict between passion and apathy. ALISON BALSOM - Sound the ...

Trecek-King and Mobley’s idea became “Crossing The Deep,” a special concert series showing the parallels between the choral works of Handel and the spirituals of enslaved Africans in America.

Elizabeth Alker introduces a complete performance of Handel's Messiah featuring a starry line-up directed by John Butt from this year's BBC Proms. Show more Elizabeth Alker introduces a complete ...

One of my fondest memories of Handel’s “Messiah” is a school ... and I can’t think of another “serious” piece of classical music that is so universally known and accessible that ...