11 Feb 2008

Grief and loathing in Lombardy

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1202687701211300.xml&coll=7

DAVID STABLER [The Oregonian, 11 February 2008]

When George Frideric Handel wrote a tune, he wasn't kidding. His music pours out in a stream of charms, boasts, snorts, bluffs and laments. It's exquisite stuff -- theatrical, fierce, the opposite of aloof.