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Note for Internet Explorer 7 users

IE7 usually blocks ActiveX in an attempt to protect your computer. This needs to activated in order to hear the extracts. To do this -

• Click on the yellow band which appears at the top of the web page.
• Click “Allow blocked content” and confirm your choice. The extract will then play.

George Frederic Handel could write a good tune - and he wrote a good many of them. Most people will know at least half a dozen of his “greatest hits” -

• the Hallelujah! Chorus from The Messiah
• the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from the opera Solomon
• the Alla Hornpipe from the Water Music
• the Rejoissance from the Music for the Royal Fireworks
• Zadok the Priest from the Coronation Anthems for George II
• Sarabande

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