Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Donna Brown (soprano), Cornelia Kallisch (mezzosoprano), Roberto Saccà (tenor) & Alastair Miles (bass)
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart & Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling
Any Handel enthusiast will want to have several versions of the original to correspond with at least some of the many composer’s own variants, but they should also have at least one recording...
Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Donna Brown (soprano), Cornelia Kallisch (mezzosoprano), Roberto Saccà (tenor) & Alastair Miles (bass)
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart & Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling
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Any Handel enthusiast will want to have several versions of the original to correspond with at least some of the many composer’s own variants, but they should also have at least one recording...
About
This recording of Mozart’s edition of The Messiah conducted by Helmuth Rilling is one of the most thrilling interpretations of this rare work.
Helmuth Rilling has enjoyed an extraordinary career and earned a plethora of awards, most recently the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize in 2011 and the Martin Luther Medal in 2012. Now over 80 years old, he continues to be internationally active as a conductor and a teacher.
Mozart re orchestrated Händel’s score and re visited several arias to adapt the work to the changing tastes of Viennese Classics, rendering this not only a brilliant work in it’s own right, but an example of how Mozart embraced his Baroque predecessors.
Contents and tracklist
- Roberto Sacca (tenor), Cornelia Kallisch (soprano), Donna Brown (soprano), Alastair Miles (bass)
- Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
- Helmuth Rilling
Awards and reviews
28th November 2013
Any Handel enthusiast will want to have several versions of the original to correspond with at least some of the many composer’s own variants, but they should also have at least one recording of Mozart’s arrangement as a supplement. This recording would be a very satisfactory way of achieving that, as well as giving considerable pleasure to the non-specialist.
