Classical Music With Big Mike

For the last few days I have kept hearing this ad or promotion on TV and it had this music so mesmerizing and beautiful I wanted to go to You Tube and play it immediately. I was pretty sure it came from Handel, but I couldn’t remember the name of it. I finally found it…..it his Handel’s Sarabande [dance] which comes from the fourth movement of his Keyboard Suite in D minor.

This from Classic FM:

“A sarabande is a dance that originated in Central America back in the sixteenth century.”

“At first, it was regarded as being rather scandalous, even being banned in Spain for its obscenity. Baroque composers, such as Handel, adopted the sarabande as one of the movements for the suites they were writing at the time.”

“Handel took the controversial dance form of the sarabande (banned for its obscenity in some countries) and turned it into one of the baroque period’s most popular pieces.”

Please turn up the volume and enjoy this beautiful mesmerizing piece of music from the Baroque composer, George Frederick Handel.

G.F. Handel: Sarabande in D minor: [this version is full orchestra]