Friday 5 April 2019

Handel - Messiah (first London version 1743) (Neville Marriner, 1976) [2CDs]


Decca 1995 [1976] | EAC LOG FLAC+CUE | 2CDs + booklet | 691MB



G. F. Handel

MESSIAH, oratorio in three parts, HWV 56

 

edition by Christopher Hogwood based on the first London performance of 23 March 1743


performed by

Elly Ameling, soprano

Anna Reynolds, alto

Philip Langridge, tenor

Gwynne Howell, bass


Academy and Chorus of St Martin-in-the-Fields

(on modern instruments)

Neville Marriner, dir.


Recording: St John's, Smith Square, London, 1 & 7/1976
TT: 140'23''