BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 65 - Choral Day – Handel’s Messiah (320kbps mp3)

Live at the BBC Proms: John Butt conducts a host of choirs and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Handel’s Messiah, arranged by Mozart.

01. Handel arr. Mozart: Messiah, Part 1 (sung in English)
01a. Introduction to BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 65 - Choral Day – Handel’s Messiah
01b. BBC Proms 2024 - Prom 65 - Choral Day – Handel’s Messiah - interval Harpsichordist, conductor and researcher Joseph McHardy talks to Penny Gore about the impact of Handel's Messiah at home and abroad.
02. Handel arr. Mozart - Messiah, Part 2
03. Handel arr. Mozart - Messiah, Part 3

Nardus Williams (soprano)
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
Ashley Riches (bass)
Philharmonia Chorus
Bath Minerva Choir
Fourth Choir
Jason Max Ferdinand Singers
LYC Chamber Choir
Voices of the River’s Edge
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Gavin Carr (chorus master)
John Butt (conductor)

Our Proms Choral Day culminates with one of music’s everlasting masterpieces, Handel’s Messiah. The choral movements are where this work’s most exciting, most joyous and most explosive music is to be found. ‘I did think I did see all Heaven before me,’ wrote the composer as he finished this musical reflection on faith, one that still brings audiences to their feet nearly three centuries after it was written. Heard here in Mozart’s thrilling arrangement, Messiah is delivered by massed choirs and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under early music specialist John Butt.

Presented by Penny Gore, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

First broadcast: 7 September 2024    
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