Messiah: Excerpts (on original instruments)

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Messiah: Excerpts (on original instruments)
Soloists / Boston Baroque / Martin Pearlman

[ Telarc Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 29 October 2005

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"...one of the happiest Messiahs on disc." -Gramophone

Martin Pearlman is the founder, music director, and conductor of both the period instruments orchestra and professional chamber chorus that make up the Boston Baroque ensemble. Mr. Pearlman has received critical acclaim for over twenty-five years in orchestral, choral, and operatic repertoire from Monteverdi to Beethoven. Highlights of his work in opera include Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea (for which he created a new performing edition), Rameau's Zoroastre, and a series of Mozart operas including Il ré pastore, Abduction from the Seraglio, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, and Don Giovanni (which was broadcast nationally on public radio). Mr. Pearlman's completion and orchestration of music from Mozart's Lo Sposo Deluso and his performing version of Purcell's Comical History of Don Quixote were both premiered by Boston Baroque.

In addition to his work with Baroque instruments, Mr. Pearlman also conducts modern orchestras and choruses, his most recent Messiah performances being with the Minnesota Orchestra. He is also active as a composer. Following a concert of his recent works, The Boston Globe commented, "If fans of (Boston Baroque) wonder why Pearlman's conducting is so insightful, it's because he knows, as only a composer can, how music goes."

Tracks:

Part One:
1. Sinfonia
2. Comfort ye, my people - Tenor Recitative
3. Every valley shall be exhalted - Tenor Air
4. And the glory of the Lord - Chorus
5. And He shall purify - Chorus
6. Behold, a virgin shall conceive - Alto Recitative
7. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion - Alto Air & Chorus
8. For unto us a Child is born - Chorus
9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion - Soprano Air
10. His yoke is easy - Chorus

Part Two:
11. All we like sheep - Chorus
12. Lift up your heads - Chorus
13. The Lord gave the word - Chorus
14. Their sound is gone out - Chorus
15. Why do the nations? - Bass Air
16. Let us break their bounds asunder - Chorus
17. He that dwelleth in heaven - Tenor Recitative
18. Thou shalt break them - Tenor Air
19. Hallelujah - Chorus

Part Three:
20. I know that my Redeemer liveth - Soprano Air
21. Since by man came death - Chorus
22. Behold, I tell you a mystery - Bass Recitative
23. The trumpet shall sound - Bass Air
24. Then shall be brought to pass - Alto Recitative
25. O death, where is thy sting? - Alto & Tenor Duet
26. But thanks be to God - Chorus
27. Worthy is the LambAmen - Chorus