LoginHandel - Messiah / Vyvyan · Sinclair · Vickers · Tozzi · Royal PO · Beecham
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Sir Thomas Beecham's Messiah has become notorious among baroque purists (like this writer) for embodying the worst excesses of pre-1960 Handel performance: ponderous tempos, stentorian opera singers, huge lumbering choruses and orchestras, crashing cymbals, clanging triangles.... Well, we'll need a new straw man: this performance is WONDERFUL. Jon Vickers and Giorgio Tozzi negotiate Handel's writing surprisingly well; Jennifer Vyvyan takes to it naturally. The chorus and orchestra (yes, including trombones, tuba, triangle, and cymbals) may obscure the part-writing, but they fill the music with power, grandeur, and faith.
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Manufacturer: RCA
Release date: 14 July 1992
Number of discs: 3
EAN: 0009026612662 UPC: 090266126620
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Release date: 14 July 1992
Number of discs: 3
EAN: 0009026612662 UPC: 090266126620
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