This performance of the best-loved of all oratorios, played on original instruments, provides us with a new musical experience. The renowned conductor Roger Norrington--a leading proponent of authentic performance practices--leads the London Baroque Players and the Cardiff Polyphonic Choir in this concert, which was the highlight of the Cardiff Festival of Choirs in Wales. Handel wrote
Messiah for a combination of winds and strings, not the large orchestras of the late 19th and 20th centuries. In this program, the work is performed to the original scoring. This
Messiah on original instruments is a performance that truly increases our understanding of this magnificent work. 113 minutes.
