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Messiah Hlts
Handel, Kwella, Denley
Messiah Hlts
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
 
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CD Details

All Artists: Handel, Kwella, Denley, Ainsley
Title: Messiah Hlts
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Conifer
Release Date: 11/23/1993
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Holiday & Wedding, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: Messiah (Highlights), Handel: Messiah Highlights
UPC: 743211535427
 

CD Reviews

Excellent!
Beija Flor | MD, USA | 11/18/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Every Christmas I pull this CD out and sing straight through New Year's! It is a lovely overview of Handel's Messiah condensed into a little under an hour. Not to be missed!"
Wrong Headed But So Right
James S. Eisenberg | 01/15/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Having just attended an "Authentic" MESSIAH, done by Toronto's wonderful Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble at Christmas, it was a shock to hear Stokowski's impossibly "Big" and old-fashioned approach to the work after so many years. Probably using the largest chorus and body of strings in a MESSIAH recording, the great conductor gives us the sort of performance that was common in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, and takes it to a fascinating extreme.

The performance succeeds to a remarkable degree. The choruses, especially 'Hallelujah' and 'Amen' absolutely soar, and the work of the four soloists is first rate.

I believe that the original LP was issued in the Decca/London Phase 4 series, and the sound recording is impressively "big", but also has remarkable detailing.

No texts or notes are included."