Pacific Musicworks/Stubbs - George Frideric Handel: Total Eclipse: Music for Handel's Tenor

John Beard (c. 1716�1791) was a young tenor who came to George Frideric Handel�s attention when still a teenager. He inspired the great composer to give new focus to the tenor voice within his English oratorios. Beard was Handel�s ideal in his demands for �articulate utterance of the words and a just expression of the melody� � a collaboration that climaxed in Handel�s creation of the first truly great tenor part as the hero in Samson. GRAMMY� Award-winning tenor Aaron