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Handel: Messiah

Rachel Redmond (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter tenor), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass)

Capella Reial de Catalunya, Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

Handel: Messiah
This concert, recorded live at Versailles, embraces Le Concert des Nations’ breadth of textured sonorities...there is no-nonsense directness in choruses of gutsy resonance and emotive impact,...

Gramophone Magazine, March 2020

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Handel: Messiah

Rachel Redmond (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter tenor), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass)

Capella Reial de Catalunya, Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

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This concert, recorded live at Versailles, embraces Le Concert des Nations’ breadth of textured sonorities...there is no-nonsense directness in choruses of gutsy resonance and emotive impact,...

Gramophone Magazine, March 2020

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It was only natural that Jordi Savall record Händel’s Messiah. His ‘Watermusic’ is already considered a benchmark and he has also signed countless landmark recordings of religious music.

Featuring La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, Rachel Redmond (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter tenor) Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) Matthias Winckhler (bass).

This new album is the Christmas 2019 must have.

Contents and tracklist

Handel: The Messiah, HWV 56
Work length2:23:39
Sinfony Overture Grave. Allegro moderato
Track length3:03
Recitative Accompagnato "Comfort ye My People"
Track length2:57
Air "Ev’ry Valley Shall Be Exalted"
Track length3:24
Chorus "And the Glory of The Lord"
Track length2:48
Recitative Accompagnato: Thus Saith The Lord
Track length1:27
Air "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?
Track length4:23
Chorus "And He Shall Purify"
Track length2:32
Recitative "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive"
Track length0:24
Air & Chorus "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion"
Track length5:20
Recitative Accompagnato "For, Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth"
Track length2:18
Air "The People That Walked in Darkness"
Track length3:07
Chorus "For Unto Us a Child Is Born"
Track length4:15
Pifa "Pastoral Symphony"
Track length2:37
Recitative "There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field"
Track length0:41
Recitative Accompagnato "And, lo, The Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them"
Track length0:32
Recitative "And the Angel Said Unto Them"
Track length0:19
Chorus "Glory to God"
Track length2:15
Air "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion"
Track length4:07
Recitative "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind"
Track length0:26
Air "He Shall Feed His Flock"
Track length4:47
Chorus "His Yoke Is Easy"
Track length2:31
Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God"
Track length3:30
Air "He Was Despised"
Track length9:54
Chorus "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs"
Track length1:47
Chorus "And With His Stripes We Are Healed"
Track length1:38
Chorus "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray"
Track length4:23
Recitative Accompagnato "All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn"
Track length0:47
Chorus "He Trusted in God"
Track length2:28
Recitative Accompagnato "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"
Track length2:08
Air "Behold, And See if There Be Any Sorrow"
Track length1:24
Recitative Accompagnato "He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living"
Track length0:18
Air "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell"
Track length2:20
Chorus "Lift Up Your Heads, O ye Gates"
Track length3:14
Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time"
Track length0:25
Chorus "Let All the Angels of God Worship Him"
Track length1:30
Air "Thou Art Gone Up on High"
Track length3:06
Chorus "The Lord Gave the Word"
Track length1:10
Air "How Beautiful Are the Feet"
Track length2:17
Chorus "Their Sound Is Gone Out"
Track length1:25
Air "Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?"
Track length2:54
Chorus "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder"
Track length1:41
Recitative "He That Dwelleth in Heaven"
Track length0:15
Air "Thou Shalt Break Them"
Track length1:59
Chorus "Hallelujah"
Track length3:50
Air "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
Track length6:30
Chorus "Since By Man Came Death"
Track length2:29
Recitative Accompagnato "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery"
Track length0:32
Air "The Trumpet Shall Sound"
Track length9:04
Recitative "Then Shall Be Bought to Pass"
Track length0:17
Duet "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?"
Track length0:58
Chorus "But Thanks Be to God"
Track length2:16
Air "If God Be for Us"
Track length5:11
Chorus "Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain – Amen"
Track length7:46

Awards and reviews

March 2020

This concert, recorded live at Versailles, embraces Le Concert des Nations’ breadth of textured sonorities...there is no-nonsense directness in choruses of gutsy resonance and emotive impact, and we do not wait long for upfront splendour in ‘Hallelujah’. Offering orchestral vigour, an assured quartet of soloists (Redmond and Mulroy particularly classy), vivid choral grandeur and surefooted theatrical pacing, this is an enjoyable all-rounder.
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