The annual performances of Handel's Messiah at Washington National Cathedral are a holiday-season staple in the U.S. federal district, and this lavishly packaged recording, made live at the cathedral in 2007, may be intended partly as a souvenir for those who have attended the event. It's a performance for those who enjoy something lying in between the English cathedral style and the hearty American Handel and Haydn tradition. The Washington National Cathedral Choir under conductor and music director Michael McCarthy is ...
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The annual performances of Handel's Messiah at Washington National Cathedral are a holiday-season staple in the U.S. federal district, and this lavishly packaged recording, made live at the cathedral in 2007, may be intended partly as a souvenir for those who have attended the event. It's a performance for those who enjoy something lying in between the English cathedral style and the hearty American Handel and Haydn tradition. The Washington National Cathedral Choir under conductor and music director Michael McCarthy is mixed in both gender and age, consisting of boy sopranos, girls from ages 11 to 18, and adult male countertenors tenors, and basses. It's an unusual sound that combines purity and muscle, and for an ad hoc choir containing children it has an impressively clean sound. They're accompanied by a so-called Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra that's moderate in size (six violins, two each of violas and cellos); it is apparently basically the same ensemble as the Washington Baroque...
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Add this copy of Messiah to cart. $9.29, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Loft Recordings.
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