Joyce DiDonato sings "Crude furie degli orridi abissi", aria of Serse in the eponymous opera from Haendel (act III). The Ensemble Matheus is conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi. This was a live broadcast on French TV France 3 from the Arsenal concerthall in Metz, France, for the "16e Victoires de la Musique classique" (Classical music awards) on February 8 2009.
(dʒɔrdʒ ˈfri dər ɪk ˈhɛn.dəl)
Born Friday, February 23, 1685
Died Saturday, April 14, 1759
George Frideric Handel was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle-upon-Saale and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.
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