Publisher comments
In the Gramophone (March 2007), David Vickers wrote: 'It is
not fanciful to insist that without Winton Dean's invaluable devotion to
Handel scholarship many of his subsequent colleagues would have remained
fumbling in the dark for decades...[he] is enviably brilliant at describing
why certain elements of these operas deserve our utmost admiration.'
not fanciful to insist that without Winton Dean's invaluable devotion to
Handel scholarship many of his subsequent colleagues would have remained
fumbling in the dark for decades...[he] is enviably brilliant at describing
why certain elements of these operas deserve our utmost admiration.'
