Mary Simonsen, wrote a post mentioning Handel's Messiah. It brought back fond teenage memories when I was made to listen to The Messiah by a teacher who was a Handel fanatic. He got all of us 16 year old lads totally addicted to it.
Here's The Hallelujah Chorus.
Try it FULL VOLUME.
It is a remarkably powerful piece, and the history of how quickly Handel wrote it is fascinating. You owe your teacher a world of thanks for introducing it to you.
ReplyDeleteHandel's own set of performing parts for Messiah, with his own will, and much other Handel & Messiah material, are in London still as a part of the collections of the 'Foundling Museum' in Brunswick Square:
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Handel's 'composing manuscript' is only a few minutes walk away in the British Library, for its history see:
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/musicmanu/handel/
and can be examined page by page online as one of their 'virtual books:'
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/#
Love love love this chorus. Thank you for sharing. Vic
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