The Sixteen • Handel: Messiah Choruses (CD) Composer_Van Wassenaer white oak tailpiece

white oak tailpiece

Ian Wilson and Leo Chadburn on a beautiful renaissance consort of recorders made by Thomas Prescott after 16th century instruments in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum

The Inventions and Sinfonias were conceived not only as works of perfect artistic craftsmanship

and most of the arrangements are based on the premise of "what might a person from the period when this tune was written have done with this technology

Joanne Lunn soprano

The Sixteen • Handel: Messiah Choruses (CD) Composer_Van Wassenaer white oak tailpieceGeorge Frideric Handels Messiah needs no introduction. This mighty yet majestic masterpiece is the most popular oratorio ever written and includes, arguably, the most famous chorus of all timethe iconic Hallelujah! Handel was a master chorus writer and for Messiah he certainly pulled out all the stops, placing the choir front and centre throughout. Although it has become synonymous with Christmas, Messiah was originally written as an Easter offering,