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Handel: Messiah / Andrew Davis [Highlights] | ![Handel: Messiah / Andrew Davis [Highlights]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21QC8SWMTHL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Artists: George Frideric Handel, Andrew Davis, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Florence Quivar, Kathleen Battle
Label: EMI Classics
Category: Music
Buy New: $8.79
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 492147
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 724357401128
EAN: 0724357401128
ASIN: B00004VW0A
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW, CUTOUT FACTORY SEALED!! "RARE" HARD TO FIND!!
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| Tracks:
| • | No.1, Sinfonia | | • | No.2, Comfort ye my people | | • | No.3, Ev'ry valley shall be exalted | | • | No.4, And the glory of the Lord | | • | No.8, O thou that tellest | | • | No.11, For unto us a Child is born | | • | No.12, Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) | | • | No.16, Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion | | • | No.17, He shall feed his flock | | • | No.19, Behold the Lamb | | • | No.20, He was despised | | • | No.23, All we like sheep | | • | No.36, Why do the nations so furiously rage together? | | • | No.37, Let us break their bonds asunder | | • | No.39, Hallelujah | | • | No.40, I know that my Redeemer liveth | | • | No.47, Worthy is the Lamb | | • | Amen |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Absolutely Glorious! January 31, 2003
Tom Colao (Libertyville, IL United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have listened extensively to more than 15 recordings of Handel's Messiah, and have performed it several times as a tenor soloist, and I must say that this rendition has the combination of technical mastery, musical drama, and historical accuracy that renders it overall the best recording I have heard to date. Davis's solid, but not overly large orchestral forces balance the forte of the choral passages wonderfully, and he also makes use of the organ, which conductors all too frequently overlook - it absolutely makes all the difference, especially in numbers like the Hallelujah Chorus, which is done to perfection and which sold me on this recording in the first place. The soloists are fantastic; I wish the tenor (John Aler) had better command of dynamics and spent less time singing under pitch (I, being a tenor myself, notice these things far too much), but the overall effect of his voice is warm, burnished, and very well modulated. Battle, Quivar, and Ramey deliver superstar performances from superstar singers, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Chorus, while a little quiet for its size, nonetheless delivers the chorales with a precise strength that's refreshing, especially if you've grown up listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir wade around neck-deep in the choruses. Worth every penny you spend.
 Excellent music (if you can hear it) December 20, 2000
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The CD has some extremely good renditions of The Messiah. I have to admit that the performance was indeed some of the best I have heard. Unfortunately it was recorded poorly. So poorly that my CD player had to be turned up to full to hear it and then I had the static to contend with. As good as an album as it is, it was lost due to to bad recording techniques. Take my advice and spend a few extra bucks on another Handel CD.
Handel's Messiah highlights August 24, 2000
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kathleen Battle does not dissapoint on this one. Her crystal clear and purely gracefull voice does handel great justice. Brovo !!!
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