Handel: But who may abide (Messiah, HWV 56)

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MESSIAH
A Sacred Oratorio in three parts by
Georg Friedrich Händel.

Libretto by Charles Jennens

Sara MacLiver, Soprano
Alexandra Sherman, Alto
Christopher Field, Countertenor
Paul McMahon, Tenor
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Bass

Cantillation Choir
Orchestra of the Antipodes
Dir. Antony Walker

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[10Amuffett]

@etaoinbshrdlu In the Baroque period it would have been standard practice for a counter tenor to sing the alto solo parts, This would have been Handel's intention for the alto solo.

[Brollyjoy]

Brilliant!

[jpg0901]

Well Basses, atleast we still have Why do the nations and trumpet :(

Very good countertenor btw....

[SilenceTheQuiet]

@sgsound12 Don't get me wrong. This is great; it's the best song ever written. I was just saying I am used to a soprano on my ipod... which i am pissed, because my ipod got stolen... grr. But this is great, I am not mocking. :)

[sgsound12]

@SilenceTheQuiet

In this 1995 , Sir David Willcocks conducting The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The NightPro Symphony Orchestra, and soloists Lorna Anderson, Paul Esswood, Neil Mackie, and Stephen Roberts made a recording of Handel's masterpiece with a counterenor instead a female alto . It's superb.

[BlackSigfrid]

Magnificent music... The performance reflects the original spirit of this masterpiece... Thanks to have posted it...

[SilenceTheQuiet]

Well, it's different... Not bad for a man's voice. Very beutiful. But I am very used the a woman on my iPod singing it. But the idea was genious for him to sing it.

[morindhe]

@etaoinbshrdlu Very common, especially in historically informed performances. And yes, it works extremely well.

[Kevin4779]

@etaoinbshrdlu it is living proof that males have better voices

[sgsound12]

@etaoinbshrdlu If you get The Messiah recorded by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir in February 1995 and conducted by sir David Willcocks you can hear this aria and all the other arias for Alto sung by Paul Esswood, countertenor.