 | Donald Burrows - 1991 - 144 pàgines
...Performance', pp. 100-1. 7 Though a contemporary pamphlet complained that two of the Italian singers 'made rare work with the English Tongue you would have sworn it had been Welch' (See and Seem Blind, p. 16; Deutsch, Handel, p. 301). 8 See Carole Taylor, 'Handel's Disengagement... | |
 | Winton Dean - 1983 - 212 pàgines
...been expanded into a clumsy pasticcio and the Italian singers, according to a contemporary account, 'made rare work with the English Tongue you would have sworn it had been Welch'. A few days later Acis and Galatea suffered a similar transformation. It had been given once... | |
 | Thomas Forrest Kelly - 2000 - 420 pàgines
...that their oratory). By him sat Senesino, Strada, Bertolli and Turner Robinson, in their own E abits. Before him stood sundry sweet singers of this our...sung with more ease to themselves since, but for the nlme of English it might as well have been Hebrew. —See and Seem Blind: Or, a Critical Dissertation... | |
 | Christine Gerrard - 2003 - 290 pàgines
...This 'sacred Drama ' had 'no Scenary, Dress or Action, so necessary to a Drama'. The Italian singers 'gave us a Hallelujah of half an Hour long; Senesino...the English Tongue you would have sworn it had been Welch; I would have wish'd it Italian, that they might have sang with more ease to themselves, since,... | |
 | Marian Van Til - 2007 - 372 pàgines
...British choral singers], and Strada gave us a Halleluiah of Half an Hour long; Senesino andBertolli made rare work with the English tongue you would have sworn it had been Welsh; I would have wish d it Italian, that they might have sung with more ease to themselves, since, but for the Name... | |
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Israel, and Strada gave us a Hallelujah of half an Hour long; Senesino and Bertolli made rare work with the English Tongue you would have sworn it had been Welch; I would have wish'd it Italian, that they might have sang with more ease to themselves,... 