On DVD: Chapter 1. A theatrical-spiritual journey : [Jeannette Sorrell provides insights into Handel's Messiah score, with excerpts from live performance] -- Chapter 2. The musician as storyteller : translating feelings into music : [conversations with Jeannette Sorrell, Elizabeth Shammash, Jeffrey Strauss, Julie Andrijeski, Johanna Novom, Karina Fox, René Schiffer and excerpts from rehearsal]
Note
Oratorio in 3 parts.
Libretto by Charles Jennens from the Old and New Testaments.
DVD features: footage from rehearsals, concerts, and recording sessions; interviews with soloists, principal players, and Sorrell.
Event (note)
Recorded live, Dec. 12-13, 2008; additional recording sessions, Dec. 16-17, 2008, and Feb. 8, 2010.
Source of description (note)
Description based on hard copy version record.
Author
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Title
Messiah [electronic resource] / Handel.
Imprint
[London, England] : Avie, p2010.
Playing time
021300
Performer
Amanda Forsythe, soprano ; Elizabeth Shammash, mezzo-soprano ; Ian Honeyman, Ross Hauck, tenors ; Jeffrey Strauss, bass ; Apollo's Singers ; Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra (on period instruments) ; Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord, conductor.
Event
Recorded live, Dec. 12-13, 2008; additional recording sessions, Dec. 16-17, 2008, and Feb. 8, 2010.