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Amazon.com essential recordingBecause Handel's Israel in Egypt was so short, he prefaced it in later performances with an arrangement of The Ways of Zion Do Mourn, also known as the Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline. Putting a half-hour of gloom and misery at the start really didn't help matters much, so here John El
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Because Handel's Israel in Egypt was so short, he prefaced it in later performances with an arrangement of The Ways of Zion Do Mourn, also known as the Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline. Putting a half-hour of gloom and misery at the start really didn't help matters much, so here John Eliot Gardiner gives you the original funeral anthem, and if you want to hear it first, you can. Otherwise, you get a vigorous and exciting performance of Israel in Egypt, better in fact than his Philips rerecording. --David Hurwitz
Handel's epic oratorio, Israel in Egypt, here in a gripping performance by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, was a failure during Handel's lifetime. This was perhaps because of its immense variety of compositional techniques and forms. It is a virtual catalog of choral compositional methods, and thus stands outside the genre of 18th-century oratorio as such. Now, of course, it is recognized as what it is, a unique, dazzling work. --Joshua Cody
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