I think music is alive and needs to evolve always.

Baroque music in particular, it really lends itself to different kinds of feel.

And I, as a classically trained violinist, but I also had a swing band for 20 years.

And so I used to take the Bach Partitas and sort of jazz them up a bit.

And this is a piece that I've always thought, this would be great with a different kind of treatment.

Do you think, though, that this is getting out to a different audience?

That wasn't really my motivation although I think it is a wonderful byproduct of it, that audiences that maybe aren't drawn to classical music will hear Handel.

I mean, we've tried to preserve the integrity of the piece.

You know, the harmonies are often different, and the feel of each tune is different.

But the text is the same.

So I think he'd be happy with it, you know, because it's putting a stamp of today on music written so long ago.

but brings it to life in a new way.