Title: A Good "Starter" Messiah
Product review: I suspect many Americans learned the music of Messiah when this was first released something like 40 years ago. Yes, its missing about half of the music, and yes, it isn't played on period instruments or orchestration and is missing most of even the most standard Baroque ornamentation, but it nevertheless sounds wonderful and in ways more robust than some of the more urtext performances available. And Eileen Farrell simply sings rings around almost all of the more accurate but comparatively bloodless soprano competition. The other soloists are fine, and the chorus and orchestra are energetic.
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