“After that melancholy overture, that lamentation on the…” — Music for Life at 6:47
“After that melancholy overture, that lamentation on the death of Joseph, the first vocal movement of Handel's Israel and Egypt begins to describe the slavery and oppression of the Israelites in Egypt after a pharaoh came to power who didn't know Joseph. The second vocal movement immediately launches into the plagues…”
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