Festival CD Recordings
Handel to enjoy at home
The Festival season is over all too quickly but Handel is to be enjoyed all year round. Delight in his many and diverse compositions at your leisure. You can acquire a range of our Handel recordings as CDs at specialist record shops. If you’re interested, we also invite you to enquire at the Festival office. There, members of the Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e. V. can obtain certain CDs at a special price.
Judas Maccabaeus
Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
„The performances I have heard of this work previously have all been rather ordinary, leading one to think it is not of the first Handelian rank, but this rendition at the Göttingen…
Arminio
Dramma per musica in three acts by George Frideric Handel
The live recording from the 2018 opera production of the Göttingen International Handel Festival is available as a CD box - may the Festival season never end! Christopher Lowrey Countertenor…
Lotario
Dramma per musica in three acts by George Frideric Handel
‘(…) an exquisite ensemble of soloists and a FestspielOrchester Göttingen (FOG) in brilliant form created a most compelling performance on an excellent musical level’, reads…
Water Music
Water Music and Alexander's Feast with the FestspielOrchester Göttingen and Laurence Cummings
‘(...) what Laurence Cummings produces each year with this band of period specialists (...) is something quite unique and wonderful. It’s a sound of zing, spring, heat and finesse;…
Susanna
Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
A remarkable female figure takes centre stage in Handel’s oratorio Susanna. The work dates from the year 1749 and together with Theodora marks a change of direction in Handel’s later…
Coronation Anthems
NDR Chor and Festspielorchester Göttingen with Laurence Cummings
Agrippina
Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
Among the operatic works by George Frideric Handel, Agrippina, written in Venice in 1709, occupies a prime position. This is due not only to the outstanding music but also to the exceptionally fine…
Joshua
Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
Joshua is one of the so-called ‘victory oratorios’ through which Handel celebrated in London, in 1746/47, the victory of the Hanoverian dynasty over the troops of the Catholic pretender…
Faramondo
Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
Faramondo was composed at the end of the 1730s when Italian opera was in a state of deep crisis. With this work, Handel proves that the genre’s power to grip audiences is unbroken. The glorious…
Siroe, Re di Persia
Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel
Treachery, revenge, inheritance disputes and forbidden love at the Persian court – this explosive mixture forms the basis of the libretto by Pietro Metastasio, a text that Handel set in 1728. At…
