Handel: Samson- Fix'd in his everlasting seat

Chorus from the oratorio Samson.With stars.

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[5355vbxjbj76rvn]

## Listening to Handel is uncanny :) - one realises that one has never heard music before.

[shnimmuc]

G.B.Shaw said that he would "gladly sit on a sack of nails to hear a great performance of this chorus"

[MrJorlop]

This is why I prefer Il caro Sassone compositions than the mystical chromaticisms of the Cantor of St. Thomas of Leipzig . For me Handel represents the Old Testament put to music and Bach the NewTestament, the fifth Evangelist.

[Prancer1231]

I really like this

[ZenPapageno]

If you want to hear a great chorus, get "I must with speed amuse her/ Now Love, that everlasting boy" on You Tube. In that production of Semele, with Bartoli, the chorus sings Now Love gently.

Now Love, that everlasting boy, invites

To reveal while you may in soft delights

It sounds like the Olympians really like the tragic heroine and want to see her happy, and it's also very sensuous.

[rakkav]

Handel *does* have a "lighter touch" than Bach (it's partly the Italian influence in his music), which many people (including, frequently, myself) prefer. I think Bach would've given his little finger to write something as awe-inspiring as the chorus "Hallelujah!" from MESSIAH.

[5355vbxjbj76rvn]

## Not *even* Bach is as amazing as Handel - and that is saying a lot :)

Handel is unearthly - at his highest (which he frequently is), he's inspired.

Just MO :)

[rakkav]

...unless one has heard Bach first! :)

Handel and Bach were contemporaries, and both organists, though they never met. The story goes that people couldn't make up their minds as to who was better on the organ; their opinion changed depending on who they were hearing at the time.

[olialto7]

What recording is this chorus from, please?

[mbfla]

...one of the most beautiful choruses Handel

wrote!!!