Messiah Comp

• Artist : George Frideric Handel
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0028945346427
• Format : Complete
• Label : Universal Music Group
• Manufacturer : Universal Music Group
• Number Of Discs : 2
• Package Dimensions : 0.90 inches (Height) x 5.60 inches (Length) x 0.40 pounds (Weight) x 4.90 inches (Width)
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Universal Music Group
• Release Date : 2008-08-18
• SKU : 0028945346427-11
• Studio : Universal Music Group
• UPC : 028945346427

You would think that everyone in the world owned a copy of Messiah by now, and that there would certainly be no need to record new ones very year. Wrong! Here's DG's 1997 entry, and it's a fine one too. The only reservation is the recorded sound, which seems to be somewhat congested at the climaxes, as though the chorus and orchestra were recorded in differing acoustic spaces. Otherwise, this is as fine an "authentic" performance as we're likely to get. --David Hurwitz

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Composé à la hâte en moins d'un mois, l'oratorio le plus célèbre du Saxon fut créé à Dublin, le 13 avril 1742, sous des tonnerres d'applaudissements. Sans cesse arrangé et réorchestré, Le Messie parvint à notre époque déformé, élargi par les excès du siècle romantique. Il a trouvé, sous la baguette de McCreesh, une ferveur et une spiritualité éloignées des tempi épais habituels. Son Messie respire une nouvelle jeunesse, favorisée par les douceurs des timbres de l'orchestre qui conservent ce moelleux dans les pages de haute virtuosité. Rien de pointu ni d'aigre. Au contraire : si c'est une jubilation d'église plus que de théâtre, c'est sous une église chargée d'anges ronds et bienheureux. Les solistes ne font qu'un avec le chef dans cette grande aventure. Notons que McCreesh utilise pour cet enregistrement une des nombreuses versions du Messie laissée par Haendel de son vivant, l'une des dernières, réalisée pour une exécution de 1754. Pierre Massé

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Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Messiah: Part the First (I) - Sinfony (Grave - Allegro moderato)
  • 2: Messiah: Part the First (I) - Recitative, Accompanied (Tenor): Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People
  • 3: Messiah: Part the First (I) - Song (Tenor): Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted
  • 4: Messiah: Part the First (I) - Chorus: And The Glory Of The Lord Shall Be Revealed
  • 5: Messiah: Part the First (II) - Recitative, Accompanied (Bass): Thus Saith The Lord Of Hosts
  • 6: Messiah: Part the First (II) - Song (Soprano II.): But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming?
  • 7: Messiah: Part the First (II) - Chorus: And He Shall Purify The Sons Of Levi
  • 8: Messiah: Part the First (III) - Recitative (Contralto): Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive
  • 9: Messiah: Part the First (III) - Song (Contralto) & Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion
  • 10: Messiah: Part the First (III) - Recitative, Accompanied (Bass): For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover The Earth
  • 11: Messiah: Part the First (III) - Song (Bass): The People That Walked In Darkness
  • 12: Messiah: Part the First (III) - Chorus: For Unto Us A Child Is Born
  • 13: Messiah: Part the First (IV) - Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
  • 14: Messiah: see Ext. Info
  • 15: Messiah: Glory to God in the Highest
  • 16: Messiah: Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Sion
  • 17: Messiah: Then shall the Eyes of the Blind be open'd
  • 18: Messiah: He shall feed his Flock
  • 19: Messiah: His Yoke is easy, his Burthen is light
  • 20: Messiah: Behold the Lamb of God
  • 21: Messiah: He was despised
  • 22: Messiah: Surely he hath borne our Griefs
  • 23: Messiah: And with His Stripes we are healed
  • 24: Messiah: All we, like Sheep, have gone astray
  • 25: Messiah: All they that see him laugh him to scorn
  • 26: Messiah: He trusted in God
  • 27: Messiah: hy Rebuke hath broken his Heart
  • 28: Messiah: Behold, and see, if there be any Sorrow
  • 29: Messiah: He was cut off out of the Land
  • 30: Messiah: But Thou didst not leave his Soul in Hell

• Disc 2

  • 1: Messiah: Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
  • 2: Messiah: Recitative (Tenor): Unto Which Of The Angels Said He At Any Time
  • 3: Messiah: Chorus: Let All The Angels Of God Worship Him
  • 4: Messiah: Song (Soprano I.): Thou Art Gone Up On High
  • 5: Messiah: Chorus: The Lord Gave The Word
  • 6: Messiah: Song (Soprano II.): How Beautiful Are The Feet
  • 7: Messiah: Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands
  • 8: Messiah: Song (Bass): Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage Together
  • 9: Messiah: Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
  • 10: Messiah: Recitative (Tenor): He That Dwelleth In Heaven - Song (Tenor): Thou Shalt Break Them With A Rod Of Iron
  • 11: Messiah: Chorus: Hallelujah!
  • 12: Messiah: Song (Soprano II.): I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
  • 13: Messiah: Chorus: Since By Man Came Death
  • 14: Messiah: Recitative, Accompanied (Bass): Behold, I Tell You A Mystery
  • 15: Messiah: Song (Bass): The Trumpet Shall Sound
  • 16: Messiah: Recitative (Contralto): Then Shall Be Brought To Pass
  • 17: Messiah: Duet (Contralto & Tenor): O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
  • 18: Messiah: Chorus: But Thanks Be To God
  • 19: Messiah: Song (Soprano I.): If God Is For Us
  • 20: Messiah: Chours: Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain - Amen

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