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God Rot Tunbridge Wells: The Life of George Frederic Handel
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(DVD - Code 2)
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Taken from the soundtrack of the fiIm God Rot Tunbridge WeIls, this unforgettabIe coIlection of HandeI's 'hits' was rightIy praised at the time for making Handel sound, well, Iike Handel: fuIl of life and fury, and not the usual syrupy stodge served up by massed choirs of thousands. Conducted by the great Handelian Sir Charles Mackerras, his fiery cast - Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Elizabeth Harwood, John ShirIey-Quirk, Simon Preston, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Valerie Masterson, Andrei Gavrilov, Simon Preston and the Westminster Abbey Choir and the indefatigable English Chamber Orchestra - bIaze their way through some of HandeI's most famous music.
Mackerras had insisted on hearing the Royal Fireworks Music (for instance) as it had been written - for a veritabIe battery of wind and brass instruments, not to mention twenty side-drums - but how on earth were we going to assembIe that number of period-looking instruments to film? Easy, said the cameraman: use mirrors. And so we did. No-one noticed, nor that the 'harpsichord' on which the deaf and almost bIind HandeI doodles from time to time is actually a grand piano painted by Burne-Jones in 1890, almost 150 years after HandeI had died. (lronicalIy, the one person who did spot this was Andrew LIoyd-Webber, who then tried to buy the piano).
Mackerras adored the film and for a time went round slightly misquoting one of Handel's speeches from the film. Handel/Osborne/Trevor Howard says, with appropriate insouciance: ''What have l done for the Georges of England?!'' Mackerras said: ''What have l done for the Handels of England?'' Rescued them, great Sir. Rescued them. |
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