Etched onto a wax cylinder 135 years ago – this is the earliest known recording of classical music. In London, on a Friday afternoon in Crystal Palace in 1888, the first recording of a piece of ...

Among the pedestaled titans of Western music, George Frideric Handel was the first composer whose work not only quickly became celebrated in his own time but has been heralded ever since. Before ...

1888: The earliest known musical recording is made. The piece, Georg Friedrich Handel's Israel in Egypt, is recorded on a paraffin cylinder. “We learn who is furloughed when we send an email to ...

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 ...

Handel was born in what is now Germany, but most of his career was spent in London. His major works are still used in British ceremonies such as coronations, and annual events in Britain including ...

The "Hallelujah Chorus," from George Frideric Handel's Messiah, is such an iconic piece of music — and is so ingrained as a Christmas tradition — that it's easy to take its exuberance and its ...

Handel's operas don't venture into the world of comedy very often. But when they do - and when they're presented with the degree of theatrical verve and musical allure that the Berkeley West Edge ...

So what do you do if you're a recently crowned head of state and you're already facing opposition — even from within your own family? One answer is optics. Make a big, public splash; throw a lavish ...

With its juxtaposition of Handel anthems and Black American spirituals, the program by conductor Anthony Trecek-King and countertenor Reginald Mobley asked audiences to sit back and reflect “That ...

A new composer biopic is coming to our screens, with two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins set to play the great 18th-century composer George Frideric Handel in ‘The King of Covent Garden’. A new ...