Handel - Messiah - The 250th Anniversary Performance / Marriner, Academy and Chorus of St. Martin in the Fields

Rating:
Summary: Fine performance
Review: A major problem with Amazon's listing of classical videos is that they don't tell you who the performers are. This makes a rational buying decision impossible. You can't even get a large image of the box to tell who it is. So I'm writing this review as a public service since I can recognize the box (similar to the CD) as being the second Marriner recording. It has
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo
Michael Chance, countertenor
Jerry Hadley, tenor
Robert Lloyd, bass.
St. Martin in the Fields Orch and Chorus.

Musically, this is a better performance than most. von Otter is particularly fine in "He was Despised", and trumpeter Mark Bennett does the best Messiah trumpeting ever recorded, bar none. Many of the choruses are well done, and Chance is good if you like countertenors. Hadley is out of his element. Lloyd and McNair are mid-pack.

Can't comment on the video direction since I haven't seen the video yet. But based on the CD I will get it.

Rating:
Summary: Fine performance
Review: A major problem with Amazon's listing of classical videos is that they don't tell you who the performers are. This makes a rational buying decision impossible. You can't even get a large image of the box to tell who it is. So I'm writing this review as a public service since I can recognize the box (similar to the CD) as being the second Marriner recording. It has
Sylvia McNair, soprano
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo
Michael Chance, countertenor
Jerry Hadley, tenor
Robert Lloyd, bass.
St. Martin in the Fields Orch and Chorus.

Musically, this is a better performance than most. von Otter is particularly fine in "He was Despised", and trumpeter Mark Bennett does the best Messiah trumpeting ever recorded, bar none. Many of the choruses are well done, and Chance is good if you like countertenors. Hadley is out of his element. Lloyd and McNair are mid-pack.

Can't comment on the video direction since I haven't seen the video yet. But based on the CD I will get it.

Rating:
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