Amen - G.F. Handel "Messiah" - Bethany College Choir

[unnamed1999]

Mogliby wybrać trochę szybsze tempo - to fakt...

[prairiemark]

Perhaps next time this Choir cand do Handels "Hymns in Praise of the Virgin Mary." Thanks for posting this video.

[jopuch]

demasiado lento y aburrido... más allegre!!!!!

[LifeforArt]

Omg - When everyone choose a slow tempo, the choir must be much, very much, better! They roar like hungry, rutting cattle and starting with ff - fff is the wrongest they can do. The 'Amen-Fugue' is a masterpiece. God bless G.F. Handel - Fire the conducter!

[2Dawgz]

Nicely done but the basses in the beginning are very flat.

[snootzie78]

WAY too slow and somber. 

[grizzlyganymede]

Yep - too ponderous but would sound really great with this ensemble and acoustics if taken at a faster tempo

[klodg]

tempo ?

[jgesselberty]

This kind of performance is what gives Messiah the reputation of being long and boring. Much toooooooooooo sloooooooooooow. 

[bevy814]

Agree with tempo being too slow. Organist for over 30 years, never heard it done quite so slowly. otherwise nicely done

[snootzie78]

@bevy814 The first year I played in the Messiah Festival at Bethany College in Lindsborg, KS ---this is the tempo they used. I hated it, but again it's kind of a somber moment. And the reaction from the audience was unbelievable--not a dry eye in the house.

[choirman57]

I have to agree with most of the comments on the tempo. Far too slow, but GREAT sound. I've performed this many a time at a much faster tempo and in various venues most of them quite large and it sounds so much more alive at a faster tempo. And yes, why oh why would the conductor ever sit for such a piece? I do hope there is a legitimate reason or else it shows his laziness and lact of respect and that certainly would transfer over to the choir.

[ARose6915]

I think the tempo is way too slow. It makes a lovely spirited piece sound clunky and plodding. Handel meant it to sound neither.

[cshargeit]

acoustics demand slower tempo. we are so big and sloth to realize the genius here. credit the composer

[KindOfMaroon]

sometimes conductors choose slower tempos in big concert spaces because if they perform at a faster speed it will just sound like mush to half the audience

[mrskarenkatz]

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[outsider950]

violiniiiii ahahahah

[JonUtz011]

How could you as the conductor remain sitting for the Amens? (unless he has a medical condition) I can understand the recitatives....but really?

[17GreenLantern]

this isn't amen like I know it, but it is interesting

[topyblackable]

Its lovely and with a tempo chosen by the conductor. Amen to all the singers.

[r2d2camelot]

Wow the time is perfect for me. Actually in Mexico, Arturo dimecke conducted philarmonic orchestra with this time

[nanapetrucci]

A mim nao convenceu, mas valeu o esforço

[Clarissa7010]

se me hace exageradamente lento,

pero felicidades, hicieron un gran esfuerzo

[fwfassett]

The conductor is probably performing this slower so the echo effect of the church will not muddle the music together. Sounds great to me, especially for such a small group.

[outsider950]

lentissimo

[MrExtraMint]

much too slow...

gääähn!

[Rotebuehl1]

@MrExtraMint

Schnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­rch!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andrewstory79]

the tempo is too slow.

[momo4895]

@Andrewstory79 actually in the beginning it really is that slow, but it's supposed to speed up, which it doesn't in this video, so I have to agree with you it is slow, but in the beginning it's the right tempo.

[norikaaz]

handel is god

i respect german classical

[TheLilly41]

It"s beautifull! Nice voices n ice music and Amen which is important! 

Lilly

[milvitt]

troppo lento (too much slow)

[AbejaMaya3001]

Esta perfecto

[dratbc]

he is sitting on a chair because it is his choice..

[labavi1]

Slooow,....thats not Handel!

[foreverfluteplayer]

too slow, want to sleep.

[musiccommentator]

argrr!! my ears!!!

What a intonation! What a tempo! Wtf!

Why is he sitting on a chair??

[flaviobarreira]

I beleave the conductor has just one leg, that`s why he is sitting on a chair!

[lumecia]

cool^^

we will perform it next week^^....it's so damned heavy to manage to say -men and then again to start wie a ....

[hannavocalz]

great!!!,

[Zeobit]

I agree, it's a bit too slow, especially at the beginning, but at he final cadence the tempo is perfect, anyway it's a good performance.

[sameneen]

together without S afz togeter,,,greetingpeace

[danielng1990]

love tis...

[skyman4love]

am so proud to be a christian..christ loves the world..amen

[AntaresInScorpius]

Great but a little on the slow side.

[sagrezza]

Should be faster...

[girardje]

amazing ,but a little more to slow

[undatelus]

amonzing

[cholapelusa2]

Amenzing

[frodriguez1969]

amazing!