Review: Dallas Bach Society performs Handel’s dramatic early oratorio ‘La resurrezione’
Rarely heard, the oratorio imagines the time between Jesus’ burial and resurrection.
Dallas Bach Society performs Handel s La resurrezione at Zion Lutheran Church in Dallas on April 17.(Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
Georg Friederich Händel (as he was known before Anglicizing his name) was barely into his 20s when he was attracting international attention. Indeed, he was soon whisked from his native Germany to Italy, where with the patronage of princes and cardinals he began turning out reams of new sacred music.
On Saturday night, at Zion Lutheran Church, the Dallas Bach Society presented a rare performance of Handel’s early Italian oratorio,