Haendel, Messiah

Ida Haendel & Josef Hassid - The HMV Encores with Gerald Moore (Remastered) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at April 30, 2023

Ida Haendel & Josef Hassid - The HMV Encores with Gerald Moore (Remastered) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 77:44 minutes | 911 MB
Classical | Label: Parnassus Records, Official Digital Download

This album showcases recordings by two major violinists of the mid-20th century, Josef Hassid (1923–50) and Ida Haendel (1923/8*–2020). Both were from similar backgrounds, born in Poland of Jewish descent in the 1920s, and both had their first major successes in London in the late 1930s. Their recordings also document an important shared influence, the teaching of Carl Flesch (1873–1944). Flesch was a major virtuoso of the previous generation, but who made relatively few recordings (Ed: 1905-36 Odeon, Edison, Electrola, DGG).

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Ida Haendel, Czech PO - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole & Ravel: Tzigane (1964) [Japan 2018] PS3 ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at July 10, 2024

This is the world's first SACD reissue of Lalo's famous performance, which combines the beautiful and rich sound of violin of Ida Handel with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karel Ančerl. This reissue uses a new DSD sound sourced from the original analog master tape. The jacket photo uses the original LP design, renews the sound quality and reprints.

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Paavo Berglund, Bournemouth SO - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies (1972-77) [Japan 2017] SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDAtall at Dec. 11, 2024

Conductor Paavo Berglund transformed several orchestras into world-class ensembles over his long career. Known as a perfectionist, he specialized in the music of Sibelius and made three complete recordings of his symphonies. Paavo Berglund and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra recorded this cycle of the symphonies of Jean Sibelius between 1972 and 1977, with additional recordings of the tone poems dating from the same period.

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Héloise Mas - Anachronistic Hearts - Haendel- Arias (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at May 22, 2021

Héloise Mas - Anachronistic Hearts - Haendel- Arias (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 76:22 minutes | 1,27 GB
Classical | Label: Muso, Official Digital Download

The French mezzo-soprano Héloïse Mas, laureate of the latest Queen Elisabeth Competition for singing in 2018 is accompanied by a high-powered team comprising the London Handel Orchestra and Laurence Cummings – currently one of the most highly reputed conductors for this repertory – in a magnificent programme of Handel arias.

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London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus / Sir Colin Davis - Handel: Messiah (2007) [2SACD ISO+HiRes FLAC] Vinyl & HR

Posted by tiburon at Jan. 30, 2017

With an outstanding solo quartet and a great chorus and orchestra, Davis leads a sterling performance that challenges the supremacy of his 1966 Philips recording of Messiah. Davis leads a dramatic performance; the famous "Hallelujah" chorus appropriately grand, the final "Amen" bristling with brazen energy, both sung with extraordinary tonal coloring and precise articulation by the chorus, which also shines in a lithe "He shall purify" and a vividly virtuoso "For unto us a child is born." Soprano Susan Gritton's solos are a delight, whether in the measured "Behold, a virgin shall conceive" or her exuberant "Rejoice greatly." The vocal purity of her "I know my redeemer liveth" makes this track a highlight. Alto Sara Mingardo's darker tones are especially moving in her arias and dramatic in "He was despised."

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Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Sir David Willcocks - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Remastered) (1972/2019) [24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 7, 2019

Choir of King's College, Cambridge & Sir David Willcocks - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Remastered) (1972/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 151:34 minutes | 5.39 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Messiah, HWV 56 (1992 Remastered Version) , Part 1: And the glory of the Lord (chorus: Andante), King's College Choir, Cambridge/Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Sir David Willcocks.

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Christopher Wood - Le clavecin de Haendel (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/192] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 8, 2023

Christopher Wood - Le clavecin de Haendel (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 49:27 minutes | 1,94 GB
Classical | Label: Arion, Official Digital Download

Christopher Wood began his musical career as a chorister at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He studied music at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, where Boris Ord was one of his teachers, and then at the RCM, under Herbert Howells, Gordon Jacobs and Arthur Benjamin. In the summer vacations he studied conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Clemens Krauss, Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan. His principal piano teacher was Adelina de Lara, a pupil of Clara Schumann and Brahms. He studied the harpsichord with Rudolphe Dolmetsch and Dorothy Swainson.

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Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Remastered) (1964/2024) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at March 17, 2024

Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Remastered) (1964/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 141:52 minutes | 2,67 GB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording, Official Digital Download

Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel. The text was compiled from the King James Bible and the Coverdale Psalter by Charles Jennens. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.

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Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Ed. W. Shaw) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 17, 2018

Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Ed. W. Shaw) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 134:31 minutes | 2.40 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Of all English oratorios Handel’s Messiah has always been the most overwhelmingly popular. It is the least theatrical of his oratorios and the most purely sacred in its choice of subject matter. The vivid choral writing- there are more choruses in Messiah than in any other Handel oratorio- coupled with the expressive density of the solo arias, have ensured its status as one of the greatest choral masterpieces in the Western canon. Since winning the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award and conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Edward Polochick has attracted international attention as an orchestral, operatic, and choral conductor. He is the founding Artistic Director of Concert Artists of Baltimore since 1987.

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James Richman, Dallas Bach Society - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (1741 Original Version – Prepared by Malcolm Bruno) (2024) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 9, 2024

James Richman & Dallas Bach Society - Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (1741 Original Version – Prepared by Malcolm Bruno) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 143:32 minutes | 2,63 GB
Classical, Oratorio | Label: Onyx Classics, Official Digital Download

The Dallas Bach Society joined with their director and prominent harpsichordist James Richman provide a masterful debut recording with Onyx Classics, Handel’s ‘Messiah’, a new edition provided by Malcolm Bruno based on the original 1741 score. Handel had composed the work at an astounishing pace, spending less than a month in the summer of 1741. At its premiere in Dublin, over 700 patrons overcrowded the Musick hall, with the ladies had been requested to dress ‘without hoops’ in help make room. The Messiah was an instant hit and is established as Handel’s greatest works.

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