by Handel · EMI Classics · CD · EAN 0077776202020
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«Messiah Highlights» is the album by Georg Friedrich Haendel with a selection of passages from Messiah, released by EMI Classics on CD.
The oratorio traces the promise of salvation through prophecies, the birth of Christ, his passion and his resurrection, with arias and choruses of great expressiveness. This selection brings together some of its most celebrated numbers, such as 'Comfort ye, my people', 'For unto us a child is born' and the 'Hallelujah', in a choral and orchestral version.
1959 recording with Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Richard Lewis and James Milligan, the Huddersfield Choral Society and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.
For classical music fans who want a choral and orchestral selection from Messiah.
