Sweeping tonal splendor

To anticipate the same: purists who appreciate original instruments and small Instrumentation value, had better stay away from this recording. You should come to the wide selection of recordings with period instruments.

Who but Handel's finest oratory with majestic sound and large choir occupation, plus wants in the German language, enjoy, the is no way around this recording. Karl Richter, in the 1960s the German Bach interpreter par excellence, here the music of George Frideric Handel has taken. The result is a celebration of voices and instruments, as it could not be more festive and pompous. Maurice André is a flawless trumpeter; his solos are of singular purity. Elmar Schloter elicits powerful organ sounds, and the quartet of soloists is of a quality and performance that you do not know who really deserves the palm now. The tenor Ernst Haefliger takes with his beautiful voice guided Even the very first Arioso for themselves and then lets the beautiful aria 'Every Valley Shall Be Exalted "resound in a simplicity that is poignant. Gundula Janowitz pleased with her flawless soprano; it meets the aria "Rate Adults, rejoice, O daughter of Zion" with a unique jubilee. No less beautiful she sings (in a duet with Marga Höffgen) "He shall feed his flock" and turn the aria "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Moving it her recitative "There were shepherds abiding in the field". Marga and Franz Crass Höffgen are also first-class occupations. The Munich Bach Choir sings with power and precision. At the final Amen fugue simply breathtaking. The Munich Bach Orchestra finally, the same as the choir was founded by Karl Richter, is a very high-ranking orchestras. Altogether an album for the most festive hours of the year.

The sound of 1964 is properly and well-staggered; The full German text is reproduced in the booklet. Unfortunately, there is an introduction to the work.