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HANDEL: MESSIAH (Archiv). O thou that tellest good tidings: Handel's hardy perennial gets a definitive performance from Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert & Choir. Hallelujah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jan. 9, 1989 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...details as well. Instead of grouping the dotted rhythms of the overture in melodic phrases, he chopped them into monotonous two note fragments. Handel marked Larghetto the sombre People that walked in darkness; Patterson whipped it to an inappropriate speed. He also rushed the alto's Oh Thou that tellest good tidings, and consequently the choral repetition lacked contrast...

Author: By B. T. Litfield, | Title: The Messiah | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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