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Handel - Messiah | EMI 2681562

Handel - Messiah

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 2681562

Barcode: 5099926815626

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 20th April 2009

Contents

Artists

Ailish Tynan
Alice Coote
Allan Clayton
Matthew Rose
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Stephen Cleobury

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Messiah, HWV56

Artists

Ailish Tynan
Alice Coote
Allan Clayton
Matthew Rose
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Stephen Cleobury

About

The first ever live cinema broadcast of a choral concert, recorded at King’s College, Cambridge on Palm Sunday, 2009.

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge perform Handel’s best known work, Messiah, in the magnificent setting of King’s College Chapel. The performance is conducted by Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music at King’s, and features the Academy of Ancient Music and soloists Ailish Tynan, Alice Coote, Allan Clayton and Matthew Rose. It is part of the Easter at King’s festival of music and services, now in its fifth year.

This is the first time a choral concert has been carried live via satellite - on this occasion shown in over 85 cinemas across Europe and also with US and Canadian broadcasts.

George Frideric Handel’s crowning masterpiece, his oratorio Messiah, was a hit at its premiere in April 1742 and remains among the most popular works in Western choral literature. A native of Germany, the composer lived in England from 1712, where he was considered one of the leading musical figures of his day. In 1741, the year in which he wrote Messiah, however, Handel found himself on the verge of bankruptcy, depressed and broken following the failure of several of his operas. In London it was even being said that his career as a composer was over.

Not so in Ireland, where the Lord Lieutenant and governors of three charitable organisations invited Handel to Dublin to conduct a performance of one of his works for charity. Having recently completed his oratorio Messiah, the composer decided to use the invitation as an opportunity to present this new work to the world. The premiere – at Neal’s Music Hall in Dublin in 1742 – was eagerly awaited by the Dublin public and the hall was sold out.  

I would happily sit in King’s College Chapel listening to this choir sing for the rest of my days.” - The Times

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