The Early Music Show - Handel's Borrowing

Catherine Bott explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright is likely to have been plagiaristic. Playlist: Handel: His yoke is Easy (Messiah) Dawson/ Denley/ James/ Davies/ George (soloists) The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers (conductor) Hyperion CDD22019 CD1 Tr 22 Handel: Italian Duet: Quel fior che all'alba ride, HWV192 (1st mvt) Patricia Petibon Anna Maria Panzarella Le Concert d'Astree Emmanuelle Haim (conducto) Virgin Classics 5455242 Tr 9 Handel: Pastoral symphony/Pifa (Messiah) Dawson/ Denley/ James/ Davies/ George (soloists) The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Harry Christophers (conductor) Hyperion CDD22019 CD 1 Tr 13 Segue to: Playford: Parthenia (The Dancing Master) The Broadside Band Amon Ra CDSAR28 Tr 6 (excerpt) Telemann: Musique de table - concerto for threeviolins (excerpt) Camerata of 18th Century Konrad Hunteler (conductor) MD&G MDG31105802 CD 3 Tr 5 (excerpt) Handel: Sinfonie: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) Gabrieli Consort Paul McCreesh (conductor) ARCHIV 459688-2 CD 3 Tr 1 Telemann: Flute Sonata (Musique de Table) Camerata of 18th Century Konrad Hunteler (conductor) MD&G MDG31105802 CD 2 Tr 5, 8 Handel: Organ Concerto HWV 304 (1st and last mvt) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Bob Van Asperen (conductor) Virgin Classics VCD5452362 CD 2 Tr 15, 17 Gottlieb Muffat: Trio (II componimenti musicali) Ruso (harpsichord) TREC40005 Tr 14 Handel: Theodora (trio from Ouverture) Les Arts Florissant William Christie (conductor) ERATO 0927431812 CD 1 Tr 2 Handel: Egypt was glad (Israel in Egypt) The Sixteen Orchestra of the Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) COLLINS CLASSICS 70352 CD 1 Tr 2 Kerll: Fourth Canzona Haselbock (organ) NOVALIS 1500942 Tr 13 Handel: Concerto grosso, HWV327 (final gigue) Concentus Musicus Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) TELDEC 835603 CD3 Tr 6 Corelli: Concerto grosso No 12 (giga) Modo Antiquo Federico Maria Sardelli (conductor) Tactus TC 650308 Tr 37 Handel: The Ways of Zion do Mourn (Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline): II The Ways of Zion do Mourn Alsfelder Vokalensemble Barockorchester Bremen Wolfgang Helbich (conductor) CPO 9992442 Tr 2 (excerpt) Mozart: Requiem (Introitus) Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor Vienna Philharmonic Georg Solti (conductor) DECCA 4336882 Tr 1 (excerpt) Articles on Handel's borrowings: The Case for Handel's Borrowings: the Judgement of Three Centuries George J Buelow Why Did Handel Borrow? John H Roberts Both articles are compiled in: Handel: Tercentenary Collection (Ed Stanley Sadie and Anthony Hicks) Published 1987 Boydell & Brewer ISBN:083571833 Another Handel Borrowing from Telemann? - Capital Gains Ian Payne The Musical Times, Vol 142, No 1874 (Spring, 2001), pp. 33-42 (article consists of 10 pages).