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Handel: Israel in Egypt

Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Classical - Released April 11, 2000 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Handel: Coronation Anthems

Rias Kammerchor

Classical - Released April 28, 2023 | harmonia mundi

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Just in time for the coronation of King Charles III comes this release, featuring music written for the coronations of George II in 1727 and of George I before him. The Handel works, written for the 1727 event, are the pure public Handel, with imposing choral-orchestral chords interspersed with straightforward but not simple episodes of counterpoint. They are meant to be crowd-pleasers, and indeed, they are; they're hard to ruin. What is on offer here from the RIAS-Kammerchor Berlin and the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin under conductor Justin Doyle are elegant but undersized performances characteristic of the Continental historical performance movement. Reports from Handel's time indicated an orchestra of 160; here are but 20 players. The choir, at 36 singers, is closer to Handel's 40, and this veteran group delivers a rich, satisfying sound with a rounded tone from the smaller solo group (not indicated in the score but often performed as it is here). The anthem The Lord Is a Sun and Shield is not by Handel but by William Croft, and one will be struck by how close it is to Handel stylistically. The overture to Handel's Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, serves as an overture to the whole program, and there is a typically odd Chaconne by John Blow as an interlude. These are less-splendid but highly enjoyable performances for reliving the coronation atmosphere.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Handel: Messiah

London Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released October 9, 2007 | LSO Live

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Handel: Messiah

Monteverdi Choir

Classical - Released January 1, 1983 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Handel: Messiah

The Sixteen

Classical - Released September 1, 2008 | Coro

Admirers of Harry Christophers and his exemplary choral ensemble The Sixteen will no doubt have the highest expectations for this 2008 Coro release of George Frederick Handel's Messiah, especially because the group is almost ideal in size, sonority, and technical mastery to render this work in the best period performance style. Even the most demanding listeners will not be disappointed in this recording because Christophers' scholarship is impeccable, and he leads the performance with sharp Baroque rhythms, brisk tempos, vivid interpretations, and a great flexibility in instrumental combinations, which gives the music greater richness through doublings of the stings with woodwinds and supplies a pleasantly varied basso continuo. The four vocalists -- soprano Carolyn Sampson, alto Catherine Wyn-Rogers, tenor Mark Padmore, and bass Christopher Purves -- are all seasoned Handelians, and their arias are eloquent in expression and beautifully delivered with a tasteful modicum of ornamentation, but no more than that. The most thrilling highpoints are the glorious choruses in which The Sixteen sounds utterly seraphic in its pure tone and pristine in its transparent lines. As if this extraordinary performance of Messiah was not enough to compel purchase, the special edition set includes a bonus CD that offers attractive excerpts from Coro's numerous Handel titles. This set is highly recommended for aficionados of recordings of Messiah and newcomers alike.© TiVo
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Handel: Messiah

René Jacobs

Classical - Released October 2, 2006 | harmonia mundi

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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Live)

Collegium 1704

Classical - Released April 19, 2019 | Accent

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Handel: Messiah

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Sacred Oratorios - Released October 16, 2020 | PentaTone

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Handel’s Messiah has been adored by the English since it premiered. It’s a masterpiece in the British repertoire and has never been eclipsed. It’s been sung in every possible style, in every possible size. “Bigger is better” seems to be the general rule of thumb and the number of musicians and singers has approached the thousands. Attending one of these huge performances, Haydn was inspired to write his own oratorio: Die Schöpfung (The Creation).Recorded in January 2020 in Berlin’s famous Jesus-Christus Church, where so many legendary performances have been recorded, this new version uses the ‘reasonable’ size of its 1742 Dublin premiere. The fabulous RIAS-Kammerchor and the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin joined forces for the occasion with an amazing English vocal quartet consisting of Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Roderick Williams (bass).After their three editions devoted to Handel's Concerti grossi, the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin continues to invest in the music of the most English of German composers. Just to give you a taste of what it’s all about, the RIAS-Kammerchor has been led by English choirmaster Justin Doyle since 2016. Here he gives an intimate reading of Messiah, conducting an incredible choir and orchestra that are among the best in the world at performing this music. Berlin was treated to this at the Philharmonie for the 2020 New Year Concert a few days before this recording. © François Hudry/Qobuz

Surf (Volumes 1 & 2)

Étienne Daho

French Music - Released June 20, 2020 | Parlophone (France)

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Le Messie

Academy of Ancient Music

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released October 31, 2006 | Naxos

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John Eliot Gardiner - Handel

John Eliot Gardiner

Classical - Released December 13, 2022 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (1742 Version)

Gaechinger Cantorey

Classical - Released April 3, 2020 | Accentus Music

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Händel Messias

Georg Friedrich Händel

Classical - Released April 2, 2021 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Haendel: Israel in Egypt

Arsys Bourgogne

Classical - Released June 17, 2010 | Eloquentia

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Handel - Messiah and other works

Sir Neville Marriner

Classical - Released November 25, 2022 | UME - Global Clearing House

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Le Messie

Karina Gauvin

Sacred Oratorios - Released October 1, 2012 | Tafelmusik

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Le Messie

Masaaki Suzuki

Classical - Released December 24, 2021 | Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group

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Händel: Messiah

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Classical - Released March 2, 2009 | deutsche harmonia mundi

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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54

Apollo's Fire

Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | Avie Records

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Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, HWV 54, bombed at its first performance in 1739 and was heavily revised by Handel. The revisions go even further here, in what is marked as an adaptation by Apollo's Fire director Jeannette Sorrell. She makes wholesale cuts, removing numerous arias, consolidating others, and leaving only a few recitatives. Sorrell retains, however, the three-part structure of Handel's first attempt (the librettist was probably Charles Jennens of Messiah), consisting of the "Lamentations by the Israelites for the Death of Joseph," "Exodus," and "Moses' Song." She also keeps the chorus-heavy quality of Handel's originals. The nearly three-hour oratorio usually heard is sliced to just over 74 minutes. All this might seem an unwarranted intrusion, but Handel himself obviously struggled with the material of this oratorio, which isn't one of his more commonly heard works. And lo, Sorrell's reworking succeeds solidly, creating convincing dramatic arcs where they previously existed only in outline. The ten plagues are shortened considerably but make more of an impact in their abbreviated form. The greatest strength here is the choral writing, in many places the equal of anything in Messiah. Apollo's Fire is a rather underrated choral-orchestral group from the U.S. Midwest that offers a satisfyingly good-sized choir with clear text articulation and a fine sense of expressing what they are singing about. A strong offering that will be appreciated by Handel lovers during the 2023 holiday season and beyond.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Innocence & Danger

The Neal Morse Band

Rock - Released August 27, 2021 | InsideOutMusic

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