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Messiah a sacred oratorio

Handel's most popular work is performed by soloists and the Westminster Abbey Choir.

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  • "Handel's most popular work is performed by soloists and the Westminster Abbey Choir."@en
  • "Recorded in Westminster Abbey, London, members of the Academy of Ancient Music, perform Handel's "Messiah" using instruments of the period or accurate modern copies. The choruses are sung by boy trebles and male altos, tenors and basses, all members of the Choir of Westminster Abbey."@en
  • "Handel's most beloved of all oratorios was performed by fewer than forty instrumentalist and a chorus, less than thirty strong, of boy trebles and men. This is the tradition to which this performance has returned to. Members of the Academy all play instruments of the period or accurate modern copies. The soloists improvised embellishments in the arias and, in certain cases, join in the singing of the choruses, just as they would have done 240 years ago."@en
  • "Handel's most beloved of all oratorios was performed by fewer than forty instrumentalist and a chorus, less than thirty strong, of boy trebles and men. This is the tradition to which this performance has returned to. Members of the Academy all play instruments of the period or accurate modern copies. The soloists improvised embellishments in the arias and, in certain cases, join in the singing of the choruses, just as they would have done 240 years ago."
  • "A live performance of Handel's Messiah by the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of Westminster Abbey, conducted by Christopher Hogwood. Introduction spoken by Christopher Hogwood."@en
  • "A performance recorded in Westminster Abbey performed using baroque methods and on replicas of baroque instruments."@en
  • "Christopher Hogwood dirige l'Académie de musique ancienne et le Choeur de l'Abbaye de Westminster dans cette reconstitution du Messie de Handel dans sa forme authentique. Enregistré à l'Abbaye de Westminster."
  • "A performance of Handel's Messiah, filmed in Westminster Abbey."@en
  • "A performance of Handel's Messiah, filmed in Westminster Abbey."

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  • "Messiah"
  • "Messiah a sacred oratorio"@en
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