Messiah [videorecording] / British Broadcasting Corp.
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FilmPublication details: [New York] : Thorn EMI Video, c1983.Description: 1 videocassette (145 min.) : sd., col., ; 1/2 in. + 1 bookletSubject(s): Production credits: - Director-producer, Roy Tipping ; conductor, Christopher Hogwood ; organist-master of choristers, Simon Preston.
VHS format.
"TVE 2792"
An oratorio in 3 parts.
A performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, "Messiah".
Videocassette release of the 1982 production by the British Broadcasting Corp., in association with National Video Corp., Ltd.
Recorded in Westminster Abbey.
A libretto is included.
Director-producer, Roy Tipping ; conductor, Christopher Hogwood ; organist-master of choristers, Simon Preston.
Choir of Westminster Abbey, Academy of Ancient Music, Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby, Carolyn Watkinson, Paul Elliott, David Thomas.
Recorded in Westminster Abbey, London, members of the Academy of Ancient Music, perform Handel's "Messiah" using instruments of the period or accurate modern copies. The choruses are sung by boy trebles and male atlos, tenors and basses all members of the Choir of Westminster Abbey. The soloists improvise embellishments in the arias and , in certain cases, join in the singing of the choruses, just as they would have done 240 years ago.
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