Crystal Cathedral Presents Handel's Messiah 2-Disc Set

Crystal Cathedral Presents Handel's Messiah 2-Disc Set MUSIC AUDIO CD live choir Type: Music Platform: Audio CD Publisher: Crystal Cathedral Released: 2007 Media: CD Crystal Cathedral Presents Handel's MessiahDonald Neuen has studied Handel's monumental oratorio Messiah with orld-renowned Handel scholars, Alfred Mann, Jens Peter Larsen, Julius Herford, and the great American choral conductor, Robert'Shaw. Two interpretive concepts arose through this'study. First, while having to endure soloistic embellishments of his arias while composing opera in Italy, Handel refused to allow them upon his return to England and composing oratorios. He felt his melodies, in their simplistic beauty, could stand on their own. Second, when interpreting Messiah's many choruses, the conductor and singers must adhere to the composer's unique brilliance of writing in seven different styles: renaissance, baroque (energy-based, almost jazz feeling), the grand anthem foreshadowing the intense depth of late