MUSIK AM 13. special concert – Messiah

Programme

George Frideric Handel 1685-1759
Messiah HWV 56

Johanna Pommranz, soprano
Wiebke Wighardt, alto
Lars Tappert, tenor
Hans Porten, bass
BACHCHOR STUTTGART
MAIN BAROCKORCHESTER
Guest conductor: Kristina Pfeffer

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About the programme

Handel’s best-known oratorio “Messiah” tells the story of Jesus’s salvation, from the prophecies of the Old Testament to the birth, the Passion and the resurrection of the Saviour to his hoped-for return on the Day of Judgement. The Romantic Friedrich Schleiermacher enthused: “As Jesus was received by the choir of angels, so we accompany him with music and song to the great Halleluja of the ascension; for me, music such as Handel’s ‘Messiah’ is, as it were, a shortened promulgation of the whole of Christianity.”