Jörg Breiding / Hannover Boys Choir / Jan Kobow / Siri Karoline Thornhill - Handel: Messiah (2010)

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Artist: Jörg Breiding / Hannover Boys Choir / Jan Kobow / Siri Karoline Thornhill
Title: Handel: Messiah
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Ars Musici AM232374
Genre: Classical oratorio
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 02:24:05
Total Size: 645 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

For what is ostensibly a period performance of George Frederick Handel's Messiah, Jörg Breiding's 2002 presentation is remarkably straightforward and unpretentious, with no outward trappings of "authenticity" to alert the buying public. The score of Messiah used here appears to be a modern standardized edition, not one of the scholarly editions of Handel's variant versions, though the music is suitably ornamented in Baroque style by the solo vocalists and played with 18th century instruments or modern replicas. Furthermore, the use of men and boys and a small instrumental ensemble matches the practice Handel preferred for his London performances, so there's nothing unorthodox or novel attempted here. Perhaps the only thing that might stand out as an unusual feature of this performance is the labored pronunciation of English words by the German singers, where their vowels are exaggerated out of an excess of correctness that leads to mistakes that a decent coach would have caught. But the quality of singing is generally spot-on in intonation, clean in line, and crisp in enunciation, and the blend of the Knabenchor Hannover is quite smooth and even. The sonorities of the Baroque orchestra L'Arco are bright and fresh, and the variety of tone colors and characteristic sheen of the strings make this sound quite as good as many other historically informed recordings of this work. Ars Musici's live reproduction is clean and picks up everything, even a few coughs from the audience.

Tracklist:

CD1

1. Sinfonie (1. Teil)
2. Accompagnato: Comfort ye my people
3. Arie: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted
4. Chor: And the glory of the Lord
5. Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts
6. Arie: But who may abide the day of His coming
7. Chor: And He shall purify the sons of Levi
8. Rezitativ: Behold, a virgin shall conceive
9. Arie: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
10. Chor: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
11. Accompagnato: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
12. Arie: The people that walked in darkness
13. Accompagnato: For unto us a Child is born
14. Pifa
15. Rezitativ: There were shepherds abiding in the field
16. Chor: Glory to God in the highest
17. Arie: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion
18. Rezitativ: Then shall the eyyes of the blind be open'd
19. Duett: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd
20. Chor: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light
21. Chor: Behold the Lamb of God (2. Teil)
22. Arie: He was despised and rejected
23. Chor: Surely, He hath borne our griefs
24. Chor: And with His stripes we are healed
25. Chor: All we like sheep have gone astray

CD2

1. Accompagnato: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn
2. Chor: He trusted in God that he would deliver Him
3. Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
4. Arioso: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
5. Accompagnato: He was cut off out of the land of the living
6. Arie: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell
7. Chor: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
8. Rezitativ: Unto which of the angels said He at any time
9. Chor: Let all the angels of God worship Him
10. Arie: Thou art gone up on high
11. Chor: The Lord gave the word
12. Arie: How beautiful are the feet of them
13. Chor: Their sound is gone out into all lands
14. Arie: Why do nations so furiously rage
15. Chor: Let us break their bonds asunder
16. Rezitativ: He that dwelleth in heaven
17. Arie: Thou shalt break them with arod of iron
18. Chor: Hallelujah
19. Arie: I know that my Redeemer liveth (3. Teil)
20. Chor: Since by man came death
21. Accompagnato: Behold, I tell you a mystery
22. Arie: The trumpet shall sound
23. Rezitativ: Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written
24. Duett: O death, where is thy sting
25. Chor: But thanks be to God
26. Arie: If God be for us, who can be against us
27. Arie: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
28. Chor: Amen

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