Nardus Williams & Dunedin Consort • Handel in Rome (CD) Period_Christmas Fugue in A major on

Fugue in A major on a Theme of Albinoni

non fin oro

Nicolas: Bransle

Allemande la chauves

Nardus Williams & Dunedin Consort • Handel in Rome (CD) Period_Christmas Fugue in A major onHandels arrival in Rome seems to have had a miraculous influence on his development as a composer. Something about the eternal city ignited the most productive period of his entire career: there Handel worked with some of the greatest musicians of the age and enjoyed the favours of major patrons of the arts. There he also witnessed the clerical aristocracys sensual enjoyment of those very luxuries, excesses, and trappings of beauty that they professed