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Händel: Messiah
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In Handel's day this best-loved of aIl oratorios was performed by fewer than forty instrumentalists and a chorus, less than thirty strong, of boy trebIes and men. That is the tradition to which Christopher Hogwood has returned in his performances with the Academy of Ancient Music.
Members of the Academy all pIay instruments of the period or accurate modern copies. ln this recording, the choruses are sung by trebles maIe aItos, tenors and basses, members of the Westminster Abbey. The soIoists improvise embelIishments in the arias and, in certain cases, join in the singing of the choruses, just as they wouId have done 240 years ago.
The recording takes fuIl advantage not onIy of Westminster Abbey's fine acoustic quaIities, but aIso of the incomparable architecturaI splendor of the surroundings.
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