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Old 04-18-2023, 03:17 AM
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Here is another video of energetic music, this time from Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah. This performance features The Academy of Ancient Music under the baton of Christopher Hogwood. Released in 1982, this is a box set of 3 LPs and booklet from L'Oiseau-Lyre - 189D. There are lots of versions of this work and this is my favorite. The musicians really work it right out of the gate -- you can sense their enthusiasm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ15SrTT4lY

You will want to hear this on desktop speakers or better. Phone listening doesn't represent the music well.



The video covers scenes 40-43 in Part II where-in rulers reject the Gospel yet in the end God triumphs. (Not religion here but description of the work.) Immediately after scene 43 we hear the most famous passage, the Hallelujah Chorus, which I did not include in the video.

40. Song (Bass): Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage Together (David Thomas)
41. Chorus: Let Us Brake Their Bonds Asunder
42. Recitative (Tenor): He That Dwelleth In Heaven Shall Laugh Them To Scorn (Paul Elliott)
43. Song (Tenor): Thou Shalt Break Them With A Rod Of Iron (Paul Elliott)

Also featured elsewhere are soprano vocals from Emma Kirkby and Judith Nelson. Their voices are gorgeous.

Last edited by tima; 04-18-2023 at 03:20 AM.
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