April 20 - 23, 2017
8th Messiah Festival in Salzburg
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April 25 - 28, 2019
10th Messiah Festival in Salzburg
April 23 - 26, 2020
„Messiah“
Choir-Festival
Salzburg
G. F.
Handel`s Oratorio for hundreds of voices
Sing Händel`s MESSIAH in
Salzburg
Georg Friedrich Händel was born on 23rd February 1685
in Halle , Germany . After leaving Germany he lived in Italy
and then in England .
Working for English Royalty he created works of world wide significance. The
oratorio „Messiah“ is Handel’s greatest work.
The piece is so popular that many singers and choirs
all over the world regularly meet up in large Messiah-Choirs for joint
concerts.
This traditions started in the 19th century and saw performances
with many hundred singers in famous concerts such as Boston
in 1869 or London
in 1884.
Since more than 10 years „Messiah“ can be sung in a
large choir in Halle , Germany („Happy Birthday Handel“).
Now the „Jubilate – Choir Salzburg“ invites you for the „Messiah –
Choir-Festival“ in Mozart’s town. W.A. Mozart himself arranged some of Handel‘s
works and performed them in the style of the 18th century.
In Salzburg
will be performed Leonard Bernstein’s version (1956):
This version of Handel's 'Messiah' could quite
possibly be feasible today only as a Bernstein reissue. The quest for
authenticity has overtaken the performance and recording of early music, and
even a conductor recording 'Messiah' without attempting a historically-informed
style of performance wouldn't dare introduce the level of revision that
Bernstein did for his Carnegie Hall performances which preceded it.
The irony here is that Bernstein's rearrangement of
the sections works as the dramatic sequence he intended, and his reasons for doing
it make sense. He made no claims to authenticity and didn't apologize for
mucking about with a "masterpiece." Bernstein saw the second part of
the work as falling into two sections: switching them put the
"joyful" music of the latter half of Part II immediately after Part I
(the "Christmas" section), reshaping the whole work into two large
parts rather than three.