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Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set)
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|  |  | | List Price: $169.98 | | Label: Brilliant Classics
Salesrank: 200429
Released: November 30, 2004 | | Our Price: $85.00 | | | | Media: Audio CD | |
Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set) Reviews:
Disappointing 
2009-08-18 - Compared to the the other Brilliant 40 cd boxes this is a let down. A lot of minor works in serviceable recordings mostly. The chamber music is good, as are a few stray bits here and there. The orchestral music is well played and well recorded but on modern instruments.
"Minor Works" is more like it 
2008-09-09 - Both Amazon and Brilliant Classics' own site neglect to specify the contents. Most instrumental works are here (except keyboard suites) but of over 20 English oratorios, the crown of Handel's work, only 3 (Messiah, Jephtha, and Belshazzar - the last sung in German!)and of 44 Italian operas only 3 (Imeneo, Faramondo, and Rinaldo). More than half the CDs have less than 60 minutes of music, and there are no texts for the 25 CDs of vocal music. Performers, mostly obscure, are identified by name only, no background information. Final six CDs are the Complete Chamber Music, available in a separate box set from Brilliant.
Handel's Music 
2007-11-27 - Good performances, good fidelity and recordings, good selection but not comprehensive. No Samson & Delilah, no Solomon, no Julius Caesar etc.
SAK
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