Handel - Deborah / Y. Kenny · Gritton · Denley · Bowman · M. George · The King's Consort · King
Deborahis one of Handel's earliest oratorios, and it contains a lot of music recycled from other pieces--not that it really matters with Handel, who recycled whole works by other composers into some of his other oratorios. The real reason the piece has never caught on is the plot, in which the heroine lures her enemy into her tent, seduces him (we presume), then nails him to the floor with a tent peg through the brain. OK, so it isn'tThe Omen, but it's as close as Handel ever got. Fine performance, fun music, disgusting story. That's life.--David Hurwitz