About this title: Grandeur? Check. Glory? Check. Empire? Check. John Eliot Gardiner's justly celebrated 1985 recording of Handel's oratorio Solomon has as much pomp and circumstance as a royal coronation. Although not without its tendernesses and sensitivities -- the closing of Act I is as voluptuously beautiful in its way as the Love Duet from Tristan -- Handel's just and wise Solomon is always an exemplary sovereign portrayed in brilliantly celebratory and immensely noble music, music clearly meant to flatter a king and persuade him toward greatness. And so it is in Gardiner's performance. With the mighty ...
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