More Video Info: Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená interprets an aria from G.F. Handel's oratorio "Joshua"
(HWV 64, first performance 1748)
Andrea Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra
Live from Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 10th Nov. 2007
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ACHSACH
Oh, had I Jubal...Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená interprets an aria from G.F. Handel's oratorio "Joshua"
(HWV 64, first performance 1748)
Andrea Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra
Live from Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 10th Nov. 2007
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ACHSACH
Oh, had I Jubal's lyre,
Or Miriam's tuneful voice!
To sounds like his I would aspire,
In songs like hers rejoice.
My humble strains but faintly show,
How much to Heav'n and thee I owe.
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Attached you find an earlier version of this melody, written during Handel's stay in Rome, when he was in his early 20s!(more)(less)
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