Do you enjoy listening to Handel's Messiah simply for the musical quality or do you get enraged/disgusted/whatever by the proselytising?g
Performed by The Scholars Baroque Ensemble in form close to that of the first performance given in Dublin's New Music Hall Fish-amble Street 13th April 1742 in aid of charity.
Handel had quickly written the oratorio in 1741.
I'm currently listening & enjoying the full oratorio bought the other day for about $US1.00 on a good hi-fi Technic system played through a pair of Wharfedale speakers owned by a Yorkshire Punk rocker or should that be rockerette whose house & cats I'm currently looking after for a week.
Lif could be better if it was warmer . . . but having just found a BBC compilation record of Tony Hancock's better bits!
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I do and did more in the past too bad it was written in English. Still,it was a brilliant piece and I like some parts even better than the famous Hallelujah Chorus.
JackPedigo
Level 9
July 5, 2021
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I enjoy the musical quality can ignore the dialogue
bobwjr
Level 10
July 5, 2021
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I particularly enjoyed the small ensemble in this performance.
The religious aspect was never an issue I simple can't listen to classic music for very long.
silverotter11
Level 9
July 5, 2021
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Lol, it's broken down into 46 discrete songs or tunes! You don't have to listen to them all at once!
I am no more enraged about Handel's Messiah being a musical piece about a fictitious character, than I am enraged at Spring Time for Hitler being about a real one.
LenHazell53
Level 9
July 5, 2021
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I didn't know that Hitler was gay or Ava either.
@LenHazell53 lol, I was simply going on the teaser on the net -
"Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden is a fictional musical in Mel Brooks' 1967 film The Producers, as well as the stage musical adaptation of the movie, and the 2005 movie adaptation of the musical.It is a musical about Adolf Hitler, written by Franz Liebkind, an unbalanced ex-Nazi originally played by Kenneth Mars (and later by Brad Oscar and Will Ferrell in ..."
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I’ve been singing this oratorio now for more than 60 years and have never paid more than lip-service to the words…same goes for all the other hymns, psalms, requiems and other Christian devotional pieces of music. The love of music is the point of singing…the libretto only the means to that end.
Marionville
Level 10
July 5, 2021
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Music is just an abstract sound scape, there is no need at all to pay any mind to the words, to get enjoyment from it. That does not apply however to the visual arts, although the church in the past was one of the richest institutions in the world, and it commissioned some of the worlds greatest artists, the results are still almost always banal and silly.
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