Handel - "L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato"

billyguns, I retract. Please ignore my comment.

Handel, the greatest composer who ever lived; Beethoven thought so. I could listen to his music forever. This is sublime.

Yeah, this is perhaps one of my favorite arias of all times... Hearing it, is no wonder that Beethoven once said: "Handel was the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head, and kneel before his tomb." King George III called Handel "the Shakespeare of Music." George Bernard Shaw commented that "Handel is not a mere composer in England: he is an institution. What is more, he is a sacred institution."

I have no idea what your statements mean. What are you trying to say? I made a comment that Beethove thought HAndel was "the greatest composer" and I also said nice things about Handel's music.

As steals the morn upon the night,
And melts the shades away:
So Truth does Fancy's charm dissolve,
And rising Reason puts to flight
The fumes that did the mind involve,
Restoring intellectual day.

Charles Jennens (1700-1773) ,adattamento da William Shakespeare (1564-1616) , The Tempest, Act 5, scene 1, vv. 65 - 68

Come il mattino porta via la notte
dissolvendo ogni ombra:
così la Verità scolora il fascino delle fantasie,
e la Ragione risorgente spazza via
i fumi che hanno avvolto la mente,
ripristinando il giorno dell'intelletto.

just when you think you have heard all of the sublime music of G.F.Handel.. L'allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato comes along and one weeps!.... fabulous stuff xXx

Handel, what else can one say?

Maldwyn Davies rocks!! hes my singing teacher... he keeps asking me to check this out... lol! Ive done it Mr davies!