Handel: Messiah (Highlights) / Solti, Chicago Symphony (Penguin Music Classics Series)

George Frederick Handel (Composer), Georg Solti (Conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Kiri Te Kanawa (Performer), Keith Lewis (Performer), Garrison Keillor (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Kiri Te Kanawa, Keith Lewis
• Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Georg Solti
• Composer: George Frederick Handel
• Audio CD (September 29, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B00000AFQP
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #220,258 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Messiah - Highlights: Comfort ye My People

2. Messiah - Highlights: Every Valley Shall Be Exalted

3. Messiah - Highlights: And The Glory Of The Lord

4. Messiah - Highlights: For Unto Us A Child Is Born

5. Messiah - Highlights: And Suddenly There Was With The Angel - Glory To God In The Highest

6. Messiah - Highlights: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion

7. Messiah - Highlights: He Shall Feed His Flock

8. Messiah - Highlights: Behold The Lamb Of God

9. Messiah - Highlights: Lift Up Your Heads

10. Messiah - Highlights: How Beautiful Are The Feet

11. Messiah - Highlights: Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage Together? - Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder

12. Messiah - Highlights: Halleluljah

13. Messiah - Highlights: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

14. Messiah - Highlights: Behold, I Tell You A Mystery - The Trumpet Shall Sound

15. Messiah - Highlights: Worthy Is The Lamb - Amen

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and brilliant!, March 31, 2000

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This review is from: Handel: Messiah (Highlights) / Solti, Chicago Symphony (Penguin Music Classics Series) (Audio CD)

Solti really does a very fine job conducting, and this recording captures all the brilliance, power, majesty, and spiritual beauty of this masterpiece more than any of the other ones I've heard.

Te Kanawa's beautiful voice enchants, and the orchestra plays with great rhythm. Last but not least, the sound is perfect, all the details are very clear(digital quality). You will feel as if the chorus and trumpets are right in your living room!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best classical recordings., October 18, 1999

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This review is from: Handel: Messiah (Highlights) / Solti, Chicago Symphony (Penguin Music Classics Series) (Audio CD)

Bravo Kiri and Sir George Solti for such an examplary performance! The best classical recording, if not one of the best I have purchased. The orchestration is very good, if only Sir George were alive I'd like to congratulate him for his one of his best efforts. Kiri is at her best in this recording, although I never believed in her, she has made me a believer. The choral section is magnificent!

Highly, highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, August 21, 2009

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This review is from: Handel: Messiah (Highlights) / Solti, Chicago Symphony (Penguin Music Classics Series) (Audio CD)

One of the best recordings ever ! The other "Worth is the Lamb" tend to be very very slow and boring.
This has a perfect flow. The sound quality is excellent and powerful, you feel as if you were in the audience !!