Handel's Messiah
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posted by JT at Sunday, December 24, 2006
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10 Comments:
JT
Though I have studied Handel before and his work, this series brought in great winsome detail wonderful historical information that all will enjoy. Thank you for posting it.
May you have a meaningful Christmas with both friends and family.
Immanuel, God With Us,
Steve
Phil. 1:27
Merry Christmas!
Any suggestions for which CD version of Handel's Messiah to purchase?
My priorities:
1. The words are easy to discern.
2. Original instrumentation/scoring, if possible. (Yes, I realize that this was very fluid, even under the direction of Handel).
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/
produces great quality CDs.
We have it on a Joy To The World Series from a different producer, but we're not home right now to check which one...
I just recently purchased a double CD of Handel's Messiah at a local Half Price Books. I had it on a good ol' cassette tape :)
It is my favorite piece of music... Love it, grew up hearing it.
Have a wonderful Christmas.
Christ alone,
Jenn
Here's a nice discussion of some recordings, HIP and non-HIP
Corner Creature:
If it were possible to "wear out" a digital recording, I would have done so with my copy of the version recorded by Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players:
iTunes Link
It does follow original instrumentation and scoring, as you requested.
Please forgive my Philistinian ignorance, but does HIP mean (in this context) Hip!, or is it an acronym for something else?
In other words, is a HIP version of the Messiah one designed to meet the contemporary listener's felt needs?
Haha... HIP in this case means Historically Informed Performance. In some cases it means they use modern instruments but play them the way musicians in Handel's day would have played them, in most cases it means they use the instruments of the period and the style of the period as well.
For those who need direct links to the MP3 files, here they are: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
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