Donald Burrows
speaker
179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Donald Burrows’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he was taking over charity performances.
There were three...
charities in Dublin.
And in fact, what happened was that for the relief of debtors, that charity, they regularly performed Messiah in December.
That is how it became associated first with that season.
But obviously, there were things in it that elsewhere people also, yeah, good idea.
Well, no, just to pick that up, I mean, there is a tease about this.
There's no certainty that anything in Miss I was written for Mrs Stibber.
Absolutely.
If you go back to the time it's written, we don't know what Handel was thinking about his future.
I don't think so.
It sort of doesn't make sense.
Because here's him probably saying, hmm, not opera, perhaps.
I'm going somewhere else.
But he writes Messiah first, which is for four voices.
It looks as if he's not thinking of any particular singer.
And what's really odd about it is it's a very mobile work because it's just strings, trumpets and drums.
the normal cues for oboes to take part, the larger thing, you don't need a separate stave for oboes.
The normal thing that he does in operas and oratorios is in some places he writes senza oboe and then tutti forte.
There's none of that in Messiah.
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