New College Oxhigginbottom - Handel: Messiah (1751 version) (Edward Higginbottom) (Naxos) [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.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''

Sinfonia

Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs And Carried Our Sorrows

Accompanied Recitative: Comfort Ye, My People (Tenor)

Chorus: And With His Stripes We Are Healed

Aria: Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Tenor)

Chorus: All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray

Chorus: And The Glory Of The Lord

Accompanied Recitative: All They That See Him, Laugh Him To Scorn (Tenor)

Accompanied Recitative: Thus Saith The Lord Of Hosts (Bass)

Chorus: He Trusted In God That He Would Deliver Him

Aria: But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming (Countertenor)

Accompanied Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor)

Chorus: And He Shall Purify

Aria: Behold, And See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor)

Recitative: Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive, And Bear A Son (Countertenor)

Accompanied Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land Of The Living (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)

Aria (Countertenor) And Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings Of Zion

Aria: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)

Accompanied Recitative: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover The Earth (Bass)

Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates

Aria: The People That Walked In Darkness (Bass)

Recitative: Unto Which Of The Angels Said He At Any Time (Tenor)

Chorus: For Unto Us A Child Is Born

Chorus: Let All The Angels Of God Worship Him

Pifa

Aria: Thou Art Gone Up On High (Countertenor)

Accompanied Recitative: There Were Shepherds Abiding In The Field (Trebles: Henry Jenkinson And Robe

Chorus: The Lord Gave The Word

Chorus: Glory To God In The Highest

Aria: How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Them That Preach The Gospel Of Peace (Treble: Otta Jones)

Aria: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion (Tenor)

Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands

Recitative: Then Shall The Eyes Of The Blind Be Opened (Countertenor)

Aria: Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage Together (Bass)

Aria: He Shall Feed His Flock Like A Shepherd (Countertenor; Treble: Otta Jones)

Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder

Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy, His Burthen Is Light

Recitative: He That Dwelleth In Heaven Shall Laugh Them To Scorn (Tenor)

Chorus: Behold, The Lamb Of God

Aria: Thou Shalt Break Them With A Rod Of Iron (Tenor)

Aria: He Was Despised And Rejected Of Men (Countertenor)

Chorus: Hallelujah

Aria: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)

Chorus: Since By Man Came Death

Accompanied Recitative: Behold, I Tell You A Mystery (Bass)

Aria: The Trumpet Shall Sound (Bass) (Trumpet: David Blackadder)

Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought To Pass The Saying That Is Written (Countertenor)

Duet: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting (Countertenor And Tenor)

Chorus: But Thanks Be To God

Aria: If God Is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us (Countertenor)

Chorus: Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain

Chorus: Amen

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