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Handel - The Messiah | Naxos 857013132

Handel - The Messiah

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 857013132

Barcode: 0747313013173

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd October 2006

Penguin Guide 4 stars

Contents

Artists

Henry Jenkinson (treble)
Otta Jones (treble)
Robert Brooks (treble)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Eamonn Dougan (bass)
New College Oxford Choir
Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Edward Higginbottom

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56

Artists

Henry Jenkinson (treble)
Otta Jones (treble)
Robert Brooks (treble)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Toby Spence (tenor)
Eamonn Dougan (bass)
New College Oxford Choir
Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Edward Higginbottom

About

This new recording of Handel’s Messiah presents the first modern recording of a re-construction of Handel’s unique London performances of Messiah in April and May 1751, when he used treble voices from the Chapel Royal for choruses and arias. 
 
Similarly, just as Handel drew upon a chapel resource (the Chapel Royal) for his tenor and bass soloists, so Edward Higginbottom has drawn on his own New College Chapel resource (both Toby Spence and Eamonn Dougan are former clerks of New College Choir). 
 
Together these attributes give the Choir of New College, Oxford/Academy of Ancient Music’s Messiah a unique status and a unique coherence. It is both a celebration of the chapel choir tradition and window onto a particular time and place in the history of Handel’s own performances of his masterpiece. 
 
This is a very special recording. Not only is it of quite outstanding quality both musically and dramatically, but, being sung entirely by male voices associated with a single institution (all the soloists are past or present members of New College Choir), it probably comes as close as modern conditions permit to a sound that Bach would have recognized.” The Daily Telegraph

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