Handel: Messiah

Tafelmusik: TMK1016CD2

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Handel: Messiah

Label:

Tafelmusik

Catalogue No:

TMK1016CD2

Discs:

2

Release date:

1st Oct 2012

Barcode:

0880513101629

Length:

2 hours 21 minutes

Medium:

CD (download also available)
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Handel: Messiah


Karina Gauvin (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Rufus Müller (tenor) & Brett Polegato (baritone)

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir, Ivars Taurins

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Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir present an intimate and stirring performance of the baroque masterpiece Handel’s Messiah. This 2-CD recording of the full score on period instruments features a stellar cast of soloists. Tafelmusik presents this baroque masterpiece with the spirit and vitality of Handel’s own 18th-century productions. “Superhuman”, “spot-on”, “crisp” and “inspired” are just a few of the words critics have used to describe Tafelmusik’s Messiah. A perennial favourite with audiences and critics alike, Tafelmusik’s Messiah has garnered glowing reviews year after year. “I cannot remember a Messiah presentation as uniformly ‘spot-on’ as this year’s by Ivars Taurins’ Tafelmusik Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra.” (The Globe and Mail).

George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56

playPart I: Sinfonia

playPart I: Accompanied: Comfort ye, my people (Tenor)

playPart I: Air: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted (Tenor)

playPart I: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed (Chorus)

playPart I: Accompanied: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass)

playPart I: Air: But who may abide the day of His coming (Alto)

playPart I: And He shall purify the sons of Levi (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Alto) - Air: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Alto, Chorus)

playPart I: Accompanied: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Bass)

playPart I: Air: The people that walked in darkness (Bass)

playPart I: For unto us a child is born (Chorus)

playPart I: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) - Accompanied Recitative: There were shepherds (Soprano)

playPart I: Glory to God in the highest (Chorus)

playPart I: Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano)

playPart I: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened (Soprano) - Duet: He shall feed His flock like a shephered (Alto, Soprano)

playPart I: His yoke is easy, his burthen is light (Chorus)

playPart II: Behold, The Lamb of God (Chorus)

playPart II: Air: He was despised (Alto)

playPart II: Surely, He hath borne our griefs (Chorus)

playPart II: And with His stripes we are healed (Chorus)

playPart II: All we like sheep have gone astray (Chorus)

playPart II: Accompanied: All they that see Him Laugh Him to scorn (Tenor)

playPart II: He trusted in God that He would deliver Him (Chorus)

playPart II: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Tenor)

playPart II: Arioso: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (Tenor)

playPart II: Accompanied: He was cut off out of the land of the living (Soprano)

playPart II: Air: But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Soprano)

playPart II: Lift up your heads, O ye gates (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Unto which of the Angels (Tenor) - Let all the angels (Chorus)

playPart II: Air: Thou art gone up on high (Alto)

playPart II: The Lord gave the word (Chorus)

playPart II: Air: How beautiful are the feet (Soprano)

playPart II: Their sound is gone out into all lands (Chorus)

playPart II: Air: Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Bass)

playPart II: Let us break their bonds asunder (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven (Tenor) - Air: Thour shalt break them (Tenor)

playPart II: Hallelujah (Chorus)

playPart III: Air: I know that my redeemer liveth (Soprano)

playPart III: Since by man came death (Chorus)

playPart III: Accompanied: Behold, I tell you a mystery (Bass)

playPart III: Air: The trumpet shall sound (Bass)

playPart III: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass the saying (Alto) - Duet: O death, where is thy sting? (Alto, Tenor)

playPart III: But thanks be to God (Chorus)

playPart III: Air: If God be for us (Soprano)

playPart III: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain (Chorus)

playPart III: Amen (Chorus)

Gramophone Magazine

February 2013

“Time and again I was impressed by exquistely shaded string-playing...Blaze sings with authority and agility when 'the refiner's fire' heats things up...Hushed strings and Brett Polegato's unaffected baritone are eloquently evocative of stillness in 'For behold'...even if the choruses do not quite offer a consistently memorable impact, this is one of the best-played recordings of Messiah.”

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