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Handel - Messiah / Vyvyan · Sinclair · Vickers · Tozzi · Royal PO · Beecham CD

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Product Details

  • Performer: George Frideric Handel, Sir Thomas Beecham, Jennifer Vyvyan, Monica Sinclair, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, et al.
  • Audio CD (July 28, 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Sony Classical
  • Run Time: 160 minutes
  • ASIN: B000003FB8
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,933 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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By A Customer on September 24, 1999
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I LOVE THIS RECORDING! If you are looking for "authentic" you are in the wrong place. But if you are looking for fantastic sound, wonderful singing and a truly uplifting and glorious musical experience you have come to the right place.
Highly, highly recommended.
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Rich, powerful, passionate voices, capable of thunderous power and calm tenderness! What was Beecham thinking about? How dare he treat this music as though it was about Jesus' coming, His life here on Earth, and His death and resurrection? I can hardly imagine why the old conductor would possibly have wanted to conduct this any differently from what Handel heard in that historic first performance. Beecham should be tarred and feathered for daring to have his own thoughts concerning The Messiah... and for daring to hire Eugene Goosens to orchestrate it. Didn't he know that The Messiah is a dusty old museum piece, on display for our silent reverence, and should not be thought of as a living composition, capable of taking its audiences to emotional heights that are almost unbearable in their power and beauty?
Jennifer Vyvian sings clearly and sweetly, while Monica Sinclair's rich voice adds disturbing undertones to one of Handel's most intriguing and emotionally vibrant compositions- He Was despised. How dare she do this! She should just have declaimed the words with no passion and let us put all the nuances in ourselves! Why oh why do these people inject anything of themselves when the words should do it all?
The chorus! And the orchestra! They are among the worst offenders. They actually sound ecstatic in the Hallelujah Chorus! It's absolutely infuriating that they sound so utterly joyous because Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords! And then there's the Amen Chorus which finishes up the piece. Words fail me... how dare they treat this music so reverentially, as though they're glad to be in heaven. The power and gutsiness of the finale under Beecham lifts my spirits and fires my imagination to new heights. They should just have recited the words and let me do that for myself.
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If you think music is about "scholarship" rather than emotion, if you believe a performance is a worship service deifying the composer, if you believe that music is performed for the sake of professors and people who have been dead for two centuries, then you will HATE this recording. But if you believe that music is an act of love and excitement, performed for the sake of those doing the performing and the listening, then this performance is the standard by which all performances of "Messiah" should be judged. Beecham was unapologetic in his determination to mold the piece into an emotional experience for all concerned, regardless of the demands of scholarship and authenticity. The singing, playing and conducting are all brilliant. The recording, although 40 years old, is vivid and entirely listenable. Make no mistake: in the hands of Beecham, this is no baroque piece. It is aggressively romantic, powerful, unrestrained, soaring, emotional, even delirious. Sometimes I think it gets a bit out of hand - the Hallelujah Chorus is too fast even for the taste of a romantic rock 'n roller like me. But if you are tired of performances which strip away all the feeling (and are then described as "refreshing" by the dried-up critics), then this is the record for you. Beecham! Thou should'st be living at this hour.....
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While looking for a different rendition of a revered standard in both the secular and sacred repertoires, I questioned a well-listened acquaintance about finding a stellar but out-of-the-normal-realms recording of Handel's Messiah. He thought for only a moment before naming this recording. Good quality, nicely remastered, good pressing, great soloists, and a very, VERY different rendition of the music.
As mentioned in the Amazon review, baroque purists are going to raise both eyebrows at this piece, but if you give it some space, it'll grow on even those baroque-o-philes. This lavishly romantic treatment of the score gives one a very different concept. In many baroque-sensitive recordings, the emphases are on speed and virtuosity. In this recording, tempi are markedly slower, less phrenetic, less frenzied than they at times appear in more virtuosic renditions. Here, the words are pondered and mulled a bit. Not a bad thing! This is not a lite recording. With full turn of the century orchestation by Goossens (not by Beecham as mentioned in the "house" review), there are moments of hugeness as an entire low brass choir and a multitude of contrabasses pour out their hearts. You will doubtless be startled by cymbals and bass drum in the Hallelujah Chorus. It helped this listener re-think the music in light of the heft of the words. Add to that some none-too-subtle nuance, just to make sure that you understand that this is a Romantic orchestration, and you get a pretty good preparation for a wonderful, albeit unexpected, audio experience.
A Highly recommended album.
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Those who believe that G.F. Handel would have frowned on this rendition of his great work know nothing about him. Handel was at heart an operatic composer, turning from Italian grand opera to the oratorio form in mid-career. He loved the grandiose, the sublime, and most of all, the exciting. His operas and oratorios are suffused with powerful arias, ensembles and choruses. Beecham was a musical genius, a scholar of music and of Handel, and knew exactly what he was aiming for this splendid recording. I believe Handel himself would have hated many of the precious "period" performances we hear today--in person and in recording--featuring tiny, white-colored solo voices, clipped tempi and rigid dynamics. I have tossed several CD sets in the basket from sheer boredom. Listen to Beecham and his superb forces, and you will feel what Handel wanted you to feel, which would please him a great deal more than "authenticity."
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