Handel - Messiah / Nelson, Kirkby, Watkinson, Elliott, Thomas, AAM, Hogwood - L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca)

Handel - Messiah / Nelson, Kirkby, Watkinson, Elliott, Thomas, AAM, Hogwood
from: L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca)

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028943048828
Item Dimensions: 60
Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca)
Manufacturer: L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca)
MPN: 430488
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca)
Release Date: October 10, 1991
Studio: L'Oiseau-Lyre (Decca)

Editorial Review:

Amazon.com essential recording:
This is the Messiah that started it all--the first period instrument performance recorded with a choir of men and boys. It introduced music lovers the world over to Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirkby, and a whole host of performers who have since become ubiquitous as the "English Early Music Mafia," appearing as they do under zillions of different ensemble names on a variety of labels. Hogwood's performance still holds its own, however, as one of the finest and freshest available. A first-rate effort. --David Hurwitz

Disc 1:
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Disc 2:
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: 1754 Foundling Hospital Version

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	Customer Reviews

Rating:

- The best messiah
This is the best performance of the messiah. So if you are trying to decide which one to buy...

Rating:

- Beware: Manufacturer is shipping defective disks!
8 of the 23 tracks that should be on disk 1 are missing in BOTH copies of this set that I've received from Amazon. These are not "appendix" movements but choruses, recitatives, and solos that are key to the performance: Behold the Lamb of God, He Was Despised, He Shall Feed His Flock, -- most of part I and the opening of part II.

The second set arrived in perfect condition -- this would seem to be Oiseaux-Lyre blatantly shipping VERY defective copies.

I'm not out any money, ...

Rating:

- Absolutely lifeless
This version of The Messiah does not have the dramatic and emotional impact as John Eliot Gardiner's version does. I like period instruments and medium sized choir but this version is very dull. I do not like the idea of a boys choir and instead prefer adult female voices in a choir that Gardiner uses. Handel did use adult female choir voices especially near the ending of the movie The Great Mr. Handel. The singing is very dull and has no dramatic and emotional impact.

Rating:

- The best - most fauthful rendition i have heard to date
Of all of the renditions of Handel's Messiah, and I have heard many and seen many a live performance, this is by far the most faithful to the original period in which it was composed and performed. The Academy of Ancient Music does a fine job and the all male choir sounds just right. It is also the full performance not just a collection of highlights. I have had on vinyl for over 25 years, but special ordered a Cd set for portability. the violins and violas on "Every Mountain" and "Oh thou that tellest ...

Rating:

- while no perfect "Messiah" this is STILL one of the very finest
While there may be no perfect "Messiah" recording out there, this is STILL one of the very finest, and I've owned it since its original release & still return to it regulary. Emma Kirkby's solos alone make this One of the top Three to Five choices out there among hundreds of versions available. This is one of the Original attempts to produce an more "historically accurate" version, by using a choir of Men and boychoir, rather than the more commonly used mixed choir of males & females. And surely the Christ ...