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Janet Baker: "He was despised" (Messiah) by Handel

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Uploaded by on Mar 18, 2011

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)

air for alto: "He was despised and rejected of ment" (Oratorio Messiah)


Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano

English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
London, 1966.

He was despised and rejected of men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief. (Isaiah 53:3)
He gave his back to the smiters,
and His cheeks to them that plucked off
the hair: He hid not His face from shame and spitting. (Isaiah 50:6)

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  • Thanks for posting.

    Remindes me of the nineteen-seventies, when I first heard her.

    At a friend's house he had LP's.

    Cheers.

    from,

    del-boy.

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