George Frideric Handel

German‐British baroque composer

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
1951 Wassermusik / Feuerwerksmusik
1956 Messiah
1959 Messiah
1959 Organ Concertos, Vol. 1: Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4
1959 Water Music Suite / Music for the Royal Fireworks
1960 Organ Concertos, Vol. 3: Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12
1963 Quatre Concerti Grossi
1966 Quattro Concerti Per L'Organo
1967 Quattro Concerti Per L'organo Ed Altri Stromenti
1971 Water Music
1973 Messiah
1974 Telemann: Suite in A minor / Sammartini: Concerto in F / Handel: Concerto in B flat
294 more releases
1978 Duetti e cantate da camera
1981 Messiah: A Sacred Oratorio (highlights)
1981 Ouverture & Danses de Rodrigo / Il pastor fido
1982 Sonatas for Recorder and Continuo
1982 Messiah: Highlights
1982 Messiah
1982 Messiah
1983 Händel, Babell, Baston: Recorder Concertos / Jacob: Suite for Recorder
1983 Recorder Concertos
1983 Canon & Gigue
1984 Messiah
1984 Israel in Egyprt
1984 Messiah: Highlights
1985 Messiah Highlights
1985 Utrecht Te Deum / Jubilate
1985 Messiah
1985 Water Music
1985 Tamerlano
1985 Solomon
1985 German Arias
1985 Italian Cantatas
1986 German Recorder Sonatas
1986 Alcina
1986 Brockes Passion
1986 Neun Deutsche Arien (Nine German Arias)
1986 Music for the Royal Fireworks / Concerto a due cori no. 2
1986 Complete Sonatas for Recorder
1987 Messiah
1987 Arien
1987 St John Passion
1987 Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (Serenata a tre, 1708)
1987 Italian Cantatas
1988 Messiah: Arias and Choruses
1988 Music For The Royal Fireworks / Concerto Grosso op 6, Nos 3 & 4
1988 Stradivari: Soundtrack From the Film
1988 Messiah
1988 Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Dissinganno
1988 La Resurrezione (1708)
1988 Julius Caesar
1988 Arias for Soprano and Trumpet
1988 Messiah: Arias and Choruses
1988 Alexander's Feast, HWV 75
1988 Chandos Anthems, Volume 1: Nos. 1, 2 & 3
1989 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / Anthem for the Foundling Hospital
1989 Le Messie
1989 Music for Royal Occasions
1989 Chandos Anthems, Volume 2: Nos. 4, 5 & 6
1989 Chandos Anthems, Volume 3: Nos. 7, 8 & 9
1989 Der Messias
1990 Belshazzar
1990 El Mesías (selección)
1990 Jephtha
1990 Flavio
1990 Music For The Royal Fireworks / Feuerwerksmusik
1990 Chandos Anthems, Volume 4: Nos. 10 & 11
1990 Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
1990 Acis and Galatea / Look down, harmonious saint
1990 Der Messias (Messiah)
1990 Harp Concertos
1990 Italian Duets
1990 Die Orgelkonzerte
1991 Recorder Sonatas
1991 Messiah
1991 Concerti Grossi, op. 3
1991 Concerti grossi, op. 6
1991 Acis and Galatea
1991 Floridante
1991 Joshua
1991 Orlando
1991 Heroic Arias
1991 Floridante
1991 Giulio Cesare
1992 Messiah
1992 Acis und Galatea
1992 Alcina / Giulio Cesare: Highlights
1992 Bach, Handel Arias
1992 Clori, Tirsi e Fileno
1993 Gloria / Magnificat / Zadok the Priest / My heart is inditing
1993 Judas Maccabaeus
1993 3 Concerti Grossi - Feuerwerksmusik
1993 Arias
1993 Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks
1993 Handel: Coronations Anthem / Blow: Anthems
1993 Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks
1993 Atalanta
1993 Deborah
1994 Israel in Egypt / Chandos Anthem No. 10
1994 The Classical Collection: Christmas: Music for the Festive Season
1994 Purcell: Dioclesian Suite; Handel: Concerto grosso OP. 6 No. 6 / Il duello amoroso
1994 Four Coronation Anthems / Foundling Hospital Anthem
1994 Messiah
1995 Nine German Arias
1995 20 Sonatas “Opus 1”
1995 Water Music/ Royal Fireworks/ Concerti
1995 The Occasional Oratorio
1995 Suites for Keyboard
1996 Friedensode & Utechter Te Deum
1996 Wassermusik / Feuerwerksmusik
1996 Ottone
1996 Organ Concertos, op. 4
1996 Zadok the Priest / Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline / Concerto a Due Cori / Hallelujah Chorus
1996 Almira
1996 Arien
1996 Ariodante
1996 Concerti Grossi, op. 3
1996 Joseph and His Brethren
1997 Der Messias
1997 Jephtha
1997 Rinaldo
1997 Messiah: original Dublin version of 1742
1997 The Rival Queens, Handel Opera Arias And Duets
1997 Riccardo Primo
1997 Arie e duetti d'amore
1998 Enregistrements inédits en concert
1998 Xerxes
1998 Agrippina: Highlights
1998 Ouvertures
1998 Operatic Arias
1999 Messiah (Highlights)
1999 Arias and Dances: Excerpts from Agrippina and Alcina
1999 Dixit Dominus / Dettingen Te Deum
1999 Orlando
1999 The Art of the Baroque Trumpet, Volume 4
1999 Ombra mai fù
1999 Water Music Suites
1999 Dixit Dominus
1999 BBC Music, Volume 8, Number 4: Handel: Dixit Dominus / Vivaldi: Gloria
2000 Apollo E Dafne & Silete Venti
2000 Poro
2000 Israel in Egypt
2001 Arminio
2001 Belshazzar HWV 61
2001 Sacred Cantatas
2001 Gloria / Dixit Dominus
2001 Brockes Passion
2002 Love Duets
2002 The Choice of Hercules
2002 Grainger: Rambles and Reflections
2003 Water Music & Fireworks
2003 Deidamia
2003 Water Music / Royal Fireworks Music
2003 Deller's Choice: A Concert of Music both Rare and Rewarding
2003 Rinaldo
2003 Messiah
2004 Arie, Madrigali & Cantate
2004 Lotario
2004 Handel
2004 Opera seria
2004 Amor e gelosia: Operatic Duets
2004 Handel Arias
2004 Handel: Athalia, HWV 52
2005 Saul
2005 Delirio
2005 Rodelinda
2006 Samson Oratorio
2006 Great Oratorio Duets
2006 Magnificat
2006 Messiah: Highlights
2006 Saul
2006 Messiah
2007 BBC Legends: Silvestri: Walton: Partita / Debussy: La Mer / Rachmaninov: Symphony no. 2 / Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks Suite / Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 / Delius: Paris / Strauss: Don Juan
2007 Solomon
2007 Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
2007 Opera Arias
2007 Rinaldo
2007 Agrippina
2007 Floridante
2007 Great Händel
2007 Messiah
2007 Bach: Magnificat / Händel: Dixit Dominus
2008 Oratorios: Saul / Messiah
2008 Tolomeo
2008 Hercules
2008 Semele
2008 Handel In Italy, Solo Cantatas
2008 Sento brillar: Arias for Carestini
2008 Messiah
2008 Acis und Galatea / Georg Friedrich Händel (Version By Mendelssohn Bartholdy)
2008 Acis & Galatea
2009 Amore X Amore
2009 Partenope
2009 Between Heaven and Earth
2009 La Resurrezione, HWV 47
2009 Neun Deutsche Arien - Gloria
2009 Serse
2009 Arias and Duets
2009 Faramondo
2009 Alcina
2009 Ezio
2009 La Diva - Arias for Cuzzoni
2009 Handel: Rodrigo / Radamisto / Admeto / Fernando / Arminio / Deidamia
2009 Chandos Anthems: My Song Shall Be Alway / Let God Arise / O Praise the Lord With One Consent
2009 Angela Hewitt Plays Handel & Haydn
2009 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
2010 Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick
2010 Judas Maccabaeus
2010 Flavio
2011 Jephtha
2011 Germanico
2011 Ariodante
2011 The Wind Instruments Sonatas (Sonatas For Recorder & Transverse Flute)
2011 Cleopatra: Arias from Giulio Cesare
2011 Nine German Arias
2011 Agrippina
2011 Streams of Pleasure
2012 Bad Guys
2012 Cantata da Camera
2012 Theodora
2012 Saul
2012 Alessandro
2012 Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice
2012 Giulio Cesare
2013 Organ Concertos, op. 7
2013 Serse
2013 Hidden Handel
2013 Handel Giove in Argo
2013 Chandos Anthems: I Will Magnify Thee / As Pants the Hart / O Come, Let Us Sing Unto the Lord
2013 Der Messias
2013 Handel: Messiah
2014 Messiah
2014 Tamerlano
2014 Orlando
2015 Partenope
2015 Agrippina
2015 Music for Brass Septet, Volume 2
2015 Tamerlano
2016 Rodelinda Regina de' Longobardi
2016 Mitologia
2016 Water Music
2016 Dixit Dominus
2017 The Argo Organ Recordings: Simon Preston at Westminster Abbey
2017 Handel: Serse, Hwv 40
2017 Chamber Music
2017 Grand Tour: Baroque Road Trip
2017 Ottone
2017 Occasional Oratorio
2017 Messiah 1754
2018 Handel Arias
2018 Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
2018 Concerti a due cori
2018 Handel’s Finest Arias for Base Voice II
2018 Ode for St Cecilia's Day
2018 Serse
2018 Italian Cantatas
2018 BBC Music, Volume 27, Number 4: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
2019 Mio caro Händel
2019 In Furore
2019 Handel’s Queens
2019 Concerti grossi, op. 6 (1-6)
2019 Messiah, HWV 56
2020 Concerti grossi, op. 6 (7-12)
2020 Messiah
2020 Concerti grossi, op. 3
2020 Samson
2020 Messiah
2021 Brockes-Passion
2021 Händel: Herakles
2021 Handel
2022 Enchantresses
2022 Semele
2022 Dualità
2022 La Resurrezione
2022 Coronation Anthems
2022 Amadigi
2022 Theodora
2023 Handel: Suites from Rodrigo & Il pastor fido
2023 Solomon
2023 BBC Music, Volume 31, Number 8: A Coronation Celebration
2023 Coronation Anthems
2023 Serse
2023 Messiah
2023 Messiah Oratorio
2024 Alcina
2024 Theodora, HWV 68
2024 Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus
2024 J. S. Bach: Weihnachts-Magnificat / G. F. Handel: Utrecht Te Deum
2024 Dixit Dominus
2025 Colonna: Missa Concertata / Handel: Dixit Dominus
2025 Chandos Anthems (Anthems for Cannons)
2025 Händel
2025 Israel in Egypt
2026 Centenary of HM Queen Elizabeth II: 100 songs for 100 years
Blockflötensonaten des Barock
Messiah: Choruses
Samson
Messiah
Wassermusik-Suite / Feuerwerksmusik
Concerti Grossi, op. 6 (disc 1)
12 concerti grossi, op. 6
Fireworks Music
Water Musick
Concerti grossi op. 3 & op. 6
Der Messias: Auszüge in deutscher Sprache
Messiah (complete)

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
1991 Tamerlano
1999 Julius Caesar
2002 Spanish Songs / Berlioz: Excerpts from Les nuits d'été
2003 Giulio Cesare
2004 Messiah
2005 Messiah
2007 Alcina
2009 Highlights from Messiah (2004)
2017 Lotario
2020 Agrippina
2024 Pierre Monteux Live
2025 Lotario