Handel - Messiah
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| Georg Friedrich Händel |
1. Handel: Messiah - Thou Shalt Break Them; Hallelujah - Hermann Scherchen, 1962
issued in 1962 on the Westminster label. Margaret Ritchie, Constance Shacklock, William Herbert, Richard Standen.
2. Handel / Sutherland / Bumbry, 1962: Excerpts From Messiah - Sir Adrian Boult, LSO
Joan Sutherland and Grace Bumbry, from the LP you see above, issued in 1962 on the London label. Sir Adrian Boult leads the London Symphony Orchestra.
3. Handel / Joan Sutherland / Richard Bonynge, 1970: Hallelujah Chorus, Messiah
issued by Decca in 1970, featuring Joan Sutherland, Huguette Tourangeau, Tom Krause Werner Krenn and the Ambrosian Singers, Richard Bonynge leads the English Chamber Orchestra.
4. Handel / Colin Davis, 1966: Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - Harper, Watts, Wakefield
issued in 1966 on the Philips label. Heather Harper, Helen Watts, John Wakefield, John Shirley-Quirk; the London Symphony Choir is led by John Alldis, and the London Symphony Orchestra, by Sir Colin Davis.
5. Handel / Berlin Handel Chorus, Berlin Radio Symphony, 1963: Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus
The German choral conductor and radio producer Guenther Arndt (1907-1976) conducts the Berlin Handel Chorus and the Berlin Radio Symphony in this 1963 performance of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. From an extremely rare Deutsche Grammophon sampler issued in 1965, "Music in the European Tradition: An Introduction to our Classical Catalogue," catalogue number 104 251.
