One of my first choral conductors used to twit my Handel
obsession by saying that “Handel was a German who wrote Italian operas
for the English.”
(shrug) He’s not wrong. One listen through this instrumental passage from Handel’s opera, Solomon, proves it. Who better than an English ensemble to interpret it?
As you can tell by the ghastly evening wear and the cringe-worthy group name, this record was released in the 1980s. Who knew it would serve as an inspiration to every high school saxophone quartet that came after?
If you think you know what saxophones sound like, take a listen to this. There’s nothing in the world quite so captivating as the sound of a classical saxophone quartet.
This is The Fairer Sax (sigh) with George Frederick Handel’s thoroughly British imagining of “The Arrival Of the Queen Of Sheba”.
(shrug) He’s not wrong. One listen through this instrumental passage from Handel’s opera, Solomon, proves it. Who better than an English ensemble to interpret it?
As you can tell by the ghastly evening wear and the cringe-worthy group name, this record was released in the 1980s. Who knew it would serve as an inspiration to every high school saxophone quartet that came after?
If you think you know what saxophones sound like, take a listen to this. There’s nothing in the world quite so captivating as the sound of a classical saxophone quartet.
This is The Fairer Sax (sigh) with George Frederick Handel’s thoroughly British imagining of “The Arrival Of the Queen Of Sheba”.
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