Handel: Ouverture, Comfort ye & Every valley (Messiah, HWV 56)

[MrDavidPun]

This is the Australian Conductor Antony Walker (I highly recommend his stuff) and if I am correct this is his choir Cantillation. They are an incredibly professional choir. I don't know for sure, but I suspect this tenot is one of his choir members. His voice is really very elegant and quite appropriate to a more chamber setting of the Messiah, but it is not a big concert hall soloist type of voice that you might hear with the LSO or the Atlanta symphony or an orchestra like that.

Beautiful!

[8497289]

@MrDavidPun The tenor is Paul McMahon, he is part of the school of drama, fine art and music lecturing in voice at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

[Gary2837]

Great tenor!!! I was moved

[Prancer1231]

very nice

[rustydog1236]

Intonation in the orchestra is really fine (that one dude has some seriously ugly earrings, though: his grandkids are going to have a good laugh)

[grandadpoppyable]

Bach is a complete novice compared to Handel relative to "Listenability" I mean hearing it over and over.

[formidas]

@grandadpoppyable Do you actually mean that Handel anticipated recordable music? And that Bach had a blind spot for this future possibility?

[fujianprince]

@grandadpoppyable Interesting point. I too think Handel anticipated recording music by using simple motives.

JS Bach I think anticipated computer music with his endless permutations.

[LifeforArt]

@fujianprince omg - you are crazy in the same way as grandad. Who can help you both, to understand music? Music is the language to say things upon we can't be silent, but they not be could said by words. (Musik ist die Sprache, um das auszudrücken worüber man nicht schweigen kann, aber wofür es keine Worte gibt.)

[fujianprince]

@LifeforArt I didn't mention anything about music being a language. I said Handel and Bach were visionaries of the future possible application of music. What's wrong with that?

[redbrian3655]

@grandadpoppyable Oh please tell me that you are not serious!

[SmileLoveForgive]

Hallelujah!!

[RichieJohnSauls]

2:26 – One of the greatest pieces of music in the universe for ever and ever. Amen.

[kaoshihshiuan]

I think there's gap between the tenor and the orchestra...lol

[ssiroe]

I do not see any gap. At which min shld it be?

[kaoshihshiuan]

Sorry, I mean the gap between the levels of performances...of course, I'm biased too, but there may be much space to be improved for the diction and timbre of the tenor.

[treblechoir99]

Since for his creation, the Messiah is just only masterpiece playing until now, without stopping. Of course also all works for Handel.