Handel - Messiah
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedErin Wall (soprano), Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Astonishingly well controlled…the solo voices are rich and weighty…[the] flute provides a charming obbligato to ‘How beautiful are the feet’, while the tenor’s ‘Thy rebuke…’ is intensely moving…a... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson
The theatrical instincts that have served Nelson so well in Berlioz ensure some detailed characterisation such as the semiquaver flurry of beating wings as the angels prepare to impart their... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral Recording of the Year
2 CDs + DVD Video
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedRemastered 2014
Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott & David Thomas
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford & The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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The two top voices here – Sandrine Piau and Katherine Watson – are well matched, with Anthea Pichanick the even, steady contralto and Rupert Charlesworth the clean, fresh-toned tenor…While Niquet’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2017
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Record Review, 16th December 2017, Recording of the Week
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Record Review, 14th October 2017, Recording of the Week
2 CDs
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Padmore, Christopher Purves
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Three of the four outstanding soloists - fine Handelians all - cut their teeth in the choir, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers has been a regular soloist. Crucially they don't stand apart, regally dispensing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th August 2008
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Building a Library, April 2009, First Choice
3 CDs
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedDame Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, James Johnston, Norman Walker
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the 1940s until the early 1960s one of the greatest of regular British musical events (every bit as important as the Proms) was Malcolm Sargent's Messiah. He conducted it up and down the... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedDorothee Mields (soprano), Benno Schachtner (alto), Benedikt Kristjánsson (tenor), Tobias Berndt (bass), Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann
This is a generally fine account of a specific version of Messiah. — More…
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Building A Library, April 2022, Recommended Recording
2 CDs
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Handel: Messiah
Midori Suzuki (soprano), Yoshikazu Mera (alto), John Elwes (tenor/narrator), David Thomas (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
With his excellent Japanese singers and players, Masaaki Suzuki here excels himself. His crisp, sharp manner goes with transparent textures and sprung rhythms, and though modest forces are used... — More…
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedSusan Hamilton (soprano), Annie Gill (mezzo), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Edward Caswell (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
The Dunedin Consort's recording of Handel's Messiah strips the work back to how it was performed at its first outing in Dublin. Even less ornate than other 'authentic' performances, it is innately... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Handel - Marriner: The Decca Legacy
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
19 CDs
Original price ($109.25) Reduced price $89.58
