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Messiah...Refreshed!

National Youth Choir of Great Britain, The Jonathan Griffith Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Griffith

Messiah...Refreshed!
A recording of Messiah in all its multi-coloured splendours as reimagined by Sirs Eugene Goossens and Thomas Beecham…To purists the additions are jaw-dropping. But striking too are the subtractions…Dishing...

BBC Music Magazine, June 20203 out of 5 stars

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Messiah...Refreshed!

National Youth Choir of Great Britain, The Jonathan Griffith Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Griffith

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A recording of Messiah in all its multi-coloured splendours as reimagined by Sirs Eugene Goossens and Thomas Beecham…To purists the additions are jaw-dropping. But striking too are the subtractions…Dishing...

BBC Music Magazine, June 20203 out of 5 stars

More reviews

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The Goossens Messiah, recorded for the first and only time by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Sir Thomas Beecham, has stood as a landmark of the classical catalogue for sixty years. Goossens’ richly orchestrated version is set to reach a new audience thanks to Maestro Griffith and DCINY, New York City’s leading promoter of classical music.

They gathered at Abbey Road Studios in London in July 2019, to record the work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a chorus comprising of sixty members of The Jonathan Griffith Singers, drawn from around the world and sixty members of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. The new recording has captured the score’s vibrant tone colours in thrilling high-definition sound.

  • Release date: 3rd Apr 2020
  • Label: Signum
  • Catalogue number: SIGCD610
  • Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Messiah (HWV 56)
Work length2:13:47
Pt. 1, no. 1. Sinfonia
Track length3:57
Pt. 1, no. 2. Comfort Ye My People
Track length3:02
Pt. 1, no. 3. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
Track length3:28
Pt. 1, no. 4. And the Glory of the Lord
Track length3:04
Pt. 1, no. 5. Thus Saith the Lord
Track length1:29
Pt. 1, no. 6. But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?
Track length5:15
Pt. 1, no. 7. And He Shall Purify
Track length2:58
Pt. 1, no. 8. Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive
Track length0:27
Pt. 1, no. 9. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
Track length5:50
Pt. 1, no. 10. For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth
Track length2:44
Pt. 1, no. 11. The People That Walked in Darkness
Track length4:46
Pt. 1, no. 12. For Unto Us a Child Is Born
Track length4:21
Pt. 1, no. 13. Pifa ("Pastoral Symphony")
Track length3:20
Pt. 1, no. 14. There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field. And Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them
Track length0:42
Pt. 1, no. 15. And the Angel Said Unto Them
Track length0:47
Pt. 1, no. 16. And Suddenly There Was with the Angel
Track length0:18
Pt. 1, no. 17. Glory to God
Track length2:15
Pt. 1, no. 18. Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
Track length4:49
Pt. 1, no. 19. Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind
Track length0:31
Pt. 1, no. 20. He Shall Feed His Flock
Track length5:25
Pt. 1, no. 21. His Yoke Is Easy, and His Burthen Is Light
Track length2:50
Pt. 2, no. 22. Behold the Lamb of God
Track length3:52
Pt. 2, no. 23. He Was Despised
Track length4:48
Pt. 2, no. 24. Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
Track length2:30
Pt. 2, no. 25. And with His Stripes We Are Healed
Track length2:06
Pt. 2, no. 26. All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
Track length4:20
Pt. 2, no. 27. All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn
Track length0:52
Pt. 2, no. 28. He Trusted In God
Track length2:52
Pt. 2, no. 29. Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart
Track length2:07
Pt. 2, no. 30. Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow
Track length1:25
Pt. 2, no. 31. He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living
Track length0:23
Pt. 2, no. 32. But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell
Track length2:26
Pt. 2, no. 33. Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
Track length3:49
Pt. 2, no. 37. The Lord Gave the Word
Track length1:12
Pt. 2, no. 38. How Beautiful Are the Feet
Track length2:27
Pt. 2, no. 39. Their Sound Is Gone Out
Track length1:40
Pt. 2, no. 40. Why Do the Nations so Furiously Rage Together?
Track length3:01
Pt. 2, no. 41. Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
Track length2:13
Pt. 2, no. 42. He That Dwelleth In Heaven
Track length0:17
Pt. 2, no. 43. Thou Shalt Break Them
Track length2:00
Pt. 2, no. 44. Hallelujah
Track length4:29
Pt. 3, no. 45. I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
Track length6:19
Pt. 3, no. 46. Since by Man Came Death
Track length2:01
Pt. 3, no. 47. Behold, I Tell You A Mystery
Track length0:39
Pt. 3, no. 48. The Trumpet Shall Sound
Track length4:26
Pt. 3, no. 53. Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain
Track length9:15

Awards and reviews

June 2020

A recording of Messiah in all its multi-coloured splendours as reimagined by Sirs Eugene Goossens and Thomas Beecham…To purists the additions are jaw-dropping. But striking too are the subtractions…Dishing up a rich, lustrously executed bowl of nostalgia, Jonathan Griffiths conducts with evident relish an affection, even if Beecham’s instinctive ‘lift’ is less to the fore.
3 out of 5 stars

July 2020

It is fascinating to hear the first recording of Goossens’s technicoloured treatment since 1959. The present-day Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play with dignified nobility, although Goossens’s hyperactive switches of colours in the Sinfonia gild the lily...The combined National Youth Choir of Great Britain and Griffith’s own chorus sing with weighty stateliness.
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