Just came across this and had to share it. Handel's setting of the Latin text of Psalm 110 (The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool) was made as a young man resident in Rome and before he moved to England. It shows that Handel already had nothing to learn about drama in music and it requires a virtuoso choir to do it justice - such as Gardiner's Monteverdis:
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