| Only during the fugal finale do the singing, acting, and stage conception come together to move the listener and to convince him how great this opera really is. |
| There follows a chapter on the three fugal finales from op.20, its start a high point of felicitous writing. |
| At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir. |
| And Handel was no less rigorous and independent in his exploitation of fugal material by inferior composers. |
| The Bristol instrument and indeed Adrian Partington are at their most convincing when there is a constant flow of music, as in the fugal development to the sonata's finale. |
| There are seven movements, the first six slow, sparely scored, and pregnant with anticipation before the finale explodes into a furious fugal dash to the abyss. |
