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Uploaded by on Jun 28, 2007

Australian soprano Sara Macliver sings Rejoice Greatly from Handel's Messiah with the Orchestra of the Antipodes and conductor Antony Walker. Available on CD and DVD from ABC Classics.

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  • Awesome... I'm listening to the Messiah: The Dream Cast now... i love this track!!

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  • A SPECTACULAR performance. I played this at a large wedding years ago on trumpet accompanied only by a pianist. Except for the endurance required it is technically not that difficult for even Bb trumpet. But the chord theory going on is incredibly subtle, requiring exact pitch.

    This singer's rendition is brilliant, wonderful. Sigh, to be backed by a full orchestra...

  • Perfect interpretation of this peice. It real captures the spirit of it.

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  • Her voice is clear as crystal....wonderfull!!

  • she's amazing... but lacks grace in her expression.

  • she makes it look easy...BEAUTIFUL!

  • @ssclayton100 ...please just go LOOK at any piece by Vivica Genaux....someone who is working a LOT more with her mouth and sound...you will probably die laughing,..however after this small death....you will see her capacity is actually significantly beyond this(this which is actually wonderful)..Vivica's capacity for the melismas are simply off the current human scale..I have not heard Vivica do this piece..obviously she has....perhaps it is time....??? I wonder what she would do with this??/

  • This is amazing, by far my favourite version that I've seen - it's not sung too fast, her voice has beautiful purity and clarity that in my opinion isn't rivalled by Renée Fleming or any other dramatic soprano - in my opinion Handel's beautiful, bell-like music requires a pure, lyrical coloratura like Sara Macliver to be truly delivered.

  • @ssclayton100 Well, enough other people have said things so you get the idea. Ask your teacher to tell you about aria da capo, in which the repeat of the A section it ornamented. That's the normal procedure. As far as her face is concerned -- I see nothing to laugh at. She is a delight: she's using her face for the best sound at the same time as she's staying right with the character of the text in expressing appropriate emotion.  This was damn near perfect.

  • Amen and Amen!

  • this is outstanding

  • @ssclayton100 Actually, stylistically she's dead on. The custom of singing baroque melismas is to use an "h" to articulate each note. And she wasn't adding any notes, those are actually the original score. Bach did it too. It was just the custom of the time period. :)

  • @1978herin im just saying the way she sings it is a little much

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