Jürgen Budday - Georg Friedrich Händel: Messiah (2011) [Hi-Res]

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Title: Georg Friedrich Händel: Messiah
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: K&K Verlagsanstalt
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) [96kHz/24bit] / FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 02:23:27
Total Size: 2.77 GB / 601 MB
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Tracklist:

CD 1
Part The First
1.01 Symphony 3:13
1.02 Comfort Ye My People, Saith Your God (Accompagnato.Tenor) 3:10
1.03 Ev‘ry Valley Shall Be Exalted (Air.Tenor) 3:24
1.04 And The Glory Of The Lord Shall Be Revealed (Chorus) 2:27
1.05 Thus Saith The Lord, The Lord Of Hosts (Accompagnato.Bass) 1:24
1.06 But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming (Air.Alto) 4:33
1.07 And He Shall Purify The Sons Of Levi (Chorus) 2:40
1.08 O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion / Arise, Shine, For Thy Light Is Come (Air.Mezzo-soprano & Chorus) 5:28
1.09 For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover The Earth (Accompagnato.Bass) 2:12
1.10 The People That Walked In Darkness Have Seen A Great Light (Air.Bass) 3:32
1.11 For Unto Us A Child Is Born (Chorus) 3:47
1.12 Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) 2:58
1.13 And Lo, The Angel Of The Lord Came Upon Them (Accompagnato.Soprano) 0:53
1.14 And Suddenly There Was With The Angel (Accompagnato.Soprano) 0:16
1.15 Glory To God In The Highest, And Peace On Earth (Chorus) 1:53
1.16 Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion (Air.Soprano) 4:34
1.17 He Shall Feed His Flock Like A Shepherd (Duet.Mezzo-soprano,Soprano) 5:40
1.18 His Yoke Is Easy, And His Burthen Is Light (Chorus) 2:17

Part The Second
1.19 Behold The Lamb Of God (Chorus) 2:59
1.20 He Was Despised And Rejected Of Men (Air.Mezzo-soprano) 11:06
1.21 Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs And Carried Our Sorrows (Chorus) 2:03
1.22 And With His Stripes We Are Healed (Chorus) 1:55
1.23 All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray (Chorus) 4:19

CD 2
2.01 All They That See Him Laugh (Accompagnato.Tenor) 0:44
2.02 He Trusted In God That He Would Deliver Him (Chorus) 2:20
2.03 Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Accompagnato.Tenor) 2:25
2.04 Behold, And See If There Be Any Sorrow (Arioso.Tenor) 1:39
2.05 He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land Of The Living (Accompagnato.Tenor) 0:20
2.06 But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell (Air.Tenor) 1:54
2.07 Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates. Who Is This King Of Glory? (Chorus) 3:29
2.08 Let All The Angels Of God Worship Him (Chorus) 1:23
2.09 Thou Art Gone Up On High (Air.Bass) 3:25
2.10 The Lord Gave The Word (Chorus) 1:10
2.11 How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Them (Air.Soprano) 2:06
2.12 Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands (Chorus) 1:31
2.13 Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage Together (Air.Bass) 2:40
2.14 Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder (Chorus) 1:51
2.15 Thou Shalt Break Them With A Rod Of Iron (Air.Tenor) 2:05
2.16 Hallelujah (Chorus) 3:40

Part The Third
2.17 I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Air.Soprano) 5:55
2.18 Since By Man Came Death (Chorus) 2:11
2.19 Behold, I Tell You A Mystery (Accompagnato.Bass) 0:45
2.20 The Trumpet Shall Sound (Air.Bass) 9:05
2.21 O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? (Duet.Alto,Tenor) 1:06
2.22 But Thanks Be To God (Chorus) 2:19
2.23 If God Be For Us (Air.Soprano) 4:54
2.24 Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain (Chorus) 3:38
2.25 Amen (Chorus) 4:11

This live German recording of Messiah is based on a manuscript Handel marked up for a performance of the work in Dublin, adding a variety of new dynamic markings and ensemble indications. There's no reason to regard it as quite the definitive version of the work that it is proposed to be by the booklet here; it can equally well be considered an experiment on Handel's part in dealing with the new stylistic currents of his day. For listeners unfamiliar with it, this version carries quite a few surprises. Sampling merely the beginning of the "Hallelujah" chorus, CD 2, track 16, is enough to give the listener an idea of what he or she is getting into as the usually muscular entrance of the choir contracts to a quiet, angelic effect. The work becomes much more varied in texture and a good deal less monumental overall.

It would nevertheless be a shame if this recording were pigeonholed among the Dublin versions, for it has a good deal to offer any Messiah listener. Billed as an uncut, historically informed performance, this recording becomes, in the hands of conductor Jürgen Budday, a nice fusion of the immediate feel of the best historical performances (aided by fine live engineering in the impressive, sonically clear spaces of Germany's Maulbronn Monastery) with a rich, more conventional sound from a good-sized German choir, the Maulbronner Kammerchor. The combination of German choristers who render the word "of" as "uff" with veteran anglophone soloists is a little odd, but not seriously distracting, and Budday gives the soloists a chance to stretch out in the recitatives. Collectively the performers capture the different strands of Handel's experience -- operatic, English Protestant, solo-oriented, and instrumetnal -- that he brought to bear on this magnificent work, and they produce a rich Messiah of unusually strong impact. The live recording has a few flaws, but they are more than overcome by the edge thus generated. Notes are in German and English, but the text is in English only. -- James Manheim