- Published: 1 October 2009
- ISBN: 9781845951153
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $42.99
Handel
The Man & His Music
- Published: 1 October 2009
- ISBN: 9781845951153
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 448
- RRP: $42.99
Keates appraises his works with passionate scrutiny, capturing superbly the increasing solitude of Handel's English years
Sunday Times
Keate's study has been skilfully updated in tribute to today's thriving Handel industry through which the composer has risen
Herald
An 18th-century mix of pleasure and instruction... As well as having magisterial critical judgements, this is a book rich in dry humour and telling anecdote
Spectator
The music is the thing and Keates gives it full volume
The Times
His creative engagement sympathetically draws out Handel's motivation as a composer
Tom Sutcliffe, Guardian
Readers cannot go wrong if they choose Keates's account, which is always thoughtful and well-informed, and simmers with an unashamed passion for the music itself
Sunday Telegraph
A good book has become a better one
Contemporary Review
This expanded edition of a book Keates published 23 years ago takes in a wealth of new knowledge, and combines biographical and musicological analysis in a way that will appeal both to the general reader and the aficionado... With its astute commentaries on the operas, this book makes a brilliantly lucid guide to Handel's evolving art
Independent