Ruth Smith
speaker
216 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Ruth Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think the proof of the pudding, you know, since it became his most famous work.
Yes.
I mean, do we think he did it justice?
Yes, we do.
Not everybody did.
In fact, Jennings was a bit cross about some of it.
We don't know precisely what.
He did say that he objected to the overture.
We don't know why.
And in fact, the overture is a stroke of genius harmonically in the whole scheme, harmonic scheme.
But, you know, Handel came back to it again and again.
And I don't think that was just a financial thing.
He came back because it was popular, because people liked it.
Artistic and pragmatic nearly always go together.
I mean, you could say that with works that actually failed when he first did them and he came back to, as is said about one of his late operas that he kept working at having to put on one side, coming back to.
Why, in the end, especially as it's not very popular now, did he come back to it?
We might work out that he really had a fondness for some of it.
But, I mean, Don can tell us about how many different versions handled it.
He must have been interested in this work to keep redoing it in different forms.
Which was what Jennings intended, if I might interrupt.
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