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“The Associazione Hendel* is a non-profit organization that seeks to combine musicological thinking with practical performance projects of Handel's music. We are presently supporting an ambitious recording and performance project by the Italian orchestra La Risonanza to perform and record all of Handel's cantate con strumenti (i.e. the cantatas accompanied by continuo and additional instruments) dating from the composer's time working across Italy. In co-operation with the Spanish early music label Glossa, we aim to complete the project before the end of 2009, the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Such a project has never been envisaged before, and has so far been met with enormous critical success. ..“

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