Handel's "Belshazzar" from St. Ignatius Loyola
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Conductor Kent Tritle leads the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in a performance of George Frideric Handel's spectacular oratorio "Belshazzar," with special commentary by the conductor. Written in 1745, "Belshazzar" stands along "Messiah" as one of Handel's great Biblical oratorios. The story comes from the book of Daniel, which recounts the fall of Babylon at the hands of the Persian prince Cyrus — thus bringing Belshazzar's tyrannical oppression of the Jews to an end.
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