What a trip.
It started with a video on Youtube of a-until recently unknown to me - young singer.
I was mailed the link and that led to a clip of the same singer singing Handel's Messiah
which led to my all time favorite counter tenor singing the same aria
which led to him singing in a production of Handel's Julius Cesar
which led to a damn fine production of that opera and to a wonderful Danish soprano
and a superb number of the opera done at Glyndebourne to
at the end of the line
a zany television production of the Handel arias by the ever luminescent Kiri Te Kanawa
and I thought
WOW
I never had to get up and change the record/tape/CD, all is done with a click of the mouse.
Allright, so the sound quality is not the greatest, but good enough to make you sit and weep at the beauty of the music and the artistry of the singers.
What a trip.