Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God: Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish’d, that her iniquity is pardoned. The voice of Him that crieth in the …

Handel uses a huge range of styles to capture the breadth of these quotations. You'll hear everything from a French opera overture to begin the work, to English-style anthem choruses, to Italian opera …

Presented chrono-logically in their original languages with English translations and with commentaries incorporating the results of recent research, the documents provide an essential and accessible …

As a result, Handel composed opera-like pieces centered on Bible stories called oratorios in order to keep the public happy and to keep up his income while he could not produce opera. Perhaps the …

Testament texts. These date primarily from the 1730s until Handel’s death in 1759, and Messiah is the crown ewel among them. Handel composed his most famous oratorio in a period of 24 days from late …

Handel conceived Messiah as a work suitable for the Easter season. The story begins with the Nativity, but two-thirds of the work concentrates on Christ’s work on earth, His suffering and crucifixion, and …

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