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Handel - Messiah (1741 Version) | Rondeau ROP622324

Handel - Messiah (1741 Version)

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Label: Rondeau

Cat No: ROP622324

Barcode: 4037408062237

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 20th October 2023

Contents

Artists

Viola Blache (soprano)
Stefanie Schaefer (alto)
Fabian Kelly (tenor)
Julian Dominique Clement (bass)
Gutenberg-Kammerchor
Neumeyer Consort

Conductor

Felix Koch

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56

Artists

Viola Blache (soprano)
Stefanie Schaefer (alto)
Fabian Kelly (tenor)
Julian Dominique Clement (bass)
Gutenberg-Kammerchor
Neumeyer Consort

Conductor

Felix Koch

About

George Frideric Handel’s Messiah was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and subsequently reworked several times. However, an earlier version from 1741 exists, based on the composer’s two autograph scores. The musicologist Malcolm Bruno has reconstructed this original version and published it with Breitkopf & Härtel. In this version, an independent woodwind section consisting of two oboes and bassoons can be heard, and there are also new discoveries to be made in the arias. Bruno is enthusiastic about the first recording of the “Ur-Messiah” and hopes “that the listener has the experience of hearing the Messiah as if for a first time, as if the ink of Handel’s manuscript were still wet.”

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