Watching the conductor makes me so happy.

by far the best version of this song here on KZread... wow

@MF-pu2gv

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I listen to this every advent...

@user-xe2ey9jz9k

8 ай бұрын

What the name of the Conductor!

@vicjones3992

6 ай бұрын

Anthony Walker

Each and everyone to their own over the tempo. Sounds just right to me. Nice, sharp and crisp. Well done to the choir and musicians.

This performance gives me chills everytime...perfect speed, perfectly executed 👏🏼 best version

@keiththomas3141

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah ... You're right. It's done at a perfect speed with precision and clarity. Wow.

@martinkalk8256

2 жыл бұрын

Have to disagree on that one. The speed is way too fast. Handel wrote it for 76 while this one is 118. I know he wrote it a bit too slow but this is overkill hahaha

@pulsee.9059

2 жыл бұрын

xd

@mtntime1

Жыл бұрын

Agree 100% on the chills. Especially those soprano voices. Just amazing. I never get tired of hearing this.

What a happy conductor, totally in the spirit. I feel awesome listening and watching this.

You can tell this song was inspired by God. It's as close to perfection as you can get down here in this World.

Maestro Walker is amazing

Finally, a version that is actually fast enough, and the sopranos aren't out :) thank you!

Love it. This is a good speed. Too many performance are slow and tired. This has real drive and energy.

This is one of the most talented conductors I've ever seen.

I'm an atheist but this music can make me (a man) cry (with happiness) as also can the final "Amen". A sublime exposition of the best of the human genius, makes me optimistic despite all the inhumanity we see around us.

This song makes my mind happy and vivid.

I love this, wish i was there

so wonderful....the best one yet....!!! I love the peppy conductor too....!

One of the best pieces ever written, it's genius

I heard such a beautiful rendition of this in church many years ago that caused tears to flow even though I was not weeping.

One of my alltime favorite Christmas songs. This one really is super fast but I like it better than the slower versions; it brings across the song's joyous exuberance even more. The quality of the audio and video is superb and the conductor is just a delight to watch. Just makes one feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

@alexanderarribeno6346

4 жыл бұрын

What helps crate the joyful atmosphere?

I love the Conductor! Amazing skills and wonderful in interpretation of song. Bravo to you🤝🙏🏼 You all are wonderful 🤗

@GilSancha

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Que maravilla! Sobretodo, da gusto ver la cara del director mientras conduce la orquestra y al coro: pareciera que se rie con los ojos.

Oh my God, how much do you love us!

Sublime.....beautiful rendition.....great pace.....voices electrifying.

Its a nice song .I m very happy everytime I heard

This is so W O N D E R F U L can play it over and over, especially love the joy in the conductor's face.

@denizemontiel4904

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

Great performance!

Great performance!!!

Still one of my favorite performances since 2010... very clean and clear... love the tempo. Well done!

Wonderful rendition. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Penetrating singing voices recalled me a young days when I was a member of choir in church.I love this tune,especially tempo of this performance. Thank you ! Merry Christmas !

Wonderful and divine.

Perfect tempo! One of the better versions i have heard yet! This is the just how it is meant to be, fast and staccato!

This heavenly music can only come from a heart deeply fulfilled with the love of God. Thank you for sharing!

this is like the best performance of this song

This verse has caught my attention this year especially. Handel wrote under an unction of the Spirit. Hera this, "unto us". God gave His most precious gift unto all mankind. What have we done with Him? We could review all the blasphemies over the lst 2000 years. But no. May we receive the One who is wonderful, counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace. And He, Jesus, is more!! May we each receive more and more of Him. Enjoyed this version very much.

My all time favorite Christmas song...l always feel so full joy listening to it...May you all have blessed Christmas and be filled with the Holy Spirit

The speed is just right , in my opinion

@markkusavikivi6490

8 жыл бұрын

I was born in Haeme. It is a county in Finland, where the slowest men have been born from time to time. Still I prefer this fast version best of all versions I have found in KZread. Not only fastness, also all other musical articulation and voices hit my soul in a pleasant way.

@SKrox24

7 жыл бұрын

Sama täällä.

@Imakeeeeeno

7 жыл бұрын

have you listened to the Marc Minkowski version?

@pzbrawl

5 жыл бұрын

Hear hear!

@joewright9879

4 жыл бұрын

Suilven Mountain if you have time, you might listen to the Warsaw Philharmonic perform this piece.

my favorite! every christmas so emotional! All of you makes me christmas-happy! thank you so much!

It is very good!!/

perfection,makes you glad to be alive.Love this version so vibrant and full of life!

In regards to the fast tempo: Jan Peter Larsen in his article "Handelian Tempo Problems and Messiah" states Handel "wanted to have his music performed in what we would call very quick tempi...Everything points to the fact that excessive slowness has been the besetting sin of most Handel performances"

@windstorm1000

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Shanahan yes, but he took it too far--there's no flavor to it---no 'bloom'

@hannahkilpatrick4237

7 жыл бұрын

It isn't just Handel - slow tempi are a problem besetting performances of 'classical' composers (in the broadest sense) from Bach to Faure and beyond. Karajan's dominance of the golden age of recording has a lot to do with it, but so does the mid-20C perception of 'classical' music as necessarily dignified and a bit stuffy. But my god, the objections to Messiah in its early days due to its perceived excessive excitement and joy...! Bring back the delight.

Just wonderful, just the right speed, some great melismas, I love the messiah,

I love the fast pace!

@achantus1

9 жыл бұрын

The tempo is pretty much perfect!

AMAZING

A tiny touch of Heaven!!! Thank-you,

This truly sounds better every time it is heard .... And I loved it the first time!!!!

One of the summits of universal music.

Absolutely SUPERB! I just love it!

1:16 WONDERFUL

Thanks for sharing! The best performance of this selection I have heard.

Another Christmas, we thank God going into 2020. Amem. Great song

There is the spark. Good pace! Better faster than the way too slow versions I have seen, which get lost in the first stretches! Here is a rhythm, almost a musette you can dance to. Joy expressed.

Excellent 👌. God bless you and Merry Christmas ⛄

As do I, my friend. It is useless for me to attempt singing with our local chorus because of this piece. Glorious and Heavenly. Thank you . . .

So refreshing in these crude days.

Faster than I'm used to, but wow, I'm impressed they got all the notes despite their speed!

love this song! God bless you!

Bravo Sydney! Vielen Dank an Chor, Orchester und an den Dirigenten. Sehr eindrucksvoll! Wunderschöne Darbietung und Interpretation dieses Meisterwerks!

@bert2493

8 жыл бұрын

Wer seid ihr? : „Cantillation comprises Australia's finest professional choristers under the direction of Australian conductor Antony Walker and manager Alison Johnston“

I love this oratorio!

As far as I know this is the Orchestra of the Antipodes under Anthony Walker. One of my preferred Messiah performances :-)

@buttergirlist

9 жыл бұрын

I totally agree,the prophesizes of the coming Messiah I think is pretty exciting.

This is how it is done! Too many slow dirge versions of this magnificent piece. Bravo!

in those yesteryears days only the elite could hear and see such abundance of greatness.

Glory to the Lord Jesus Christ!

Perfect tempo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️

amazing!!

Bravissimi, tutti.

OK, the tempo is a little fast but I love the crisp feel to it. Full of joy. Thanks for posting.

Marvelous performance that, like most, made me smile. What an utterly delightful composition.

For me, it's the soprano voices that makes this song. So crisp, so beautiful, so angelic. Just something about them I can't quite explain. They have this kind of power or something. Anybody know what I'm trying to say?

@lilyradliff8716

2 жыл бұрын

I think I understand what you are trying to say.....like you said, only angelic....only angels can sing like this....with heavenly power and awe....!

@MrFrozenCanuck - Call me sentimental during this time of year, Patrick. But I end up teary-eyed most times I listen to this song.

Superb. One of my favourite versions.

I've seen a lot of film in my 60 yrs about 8000 Films and this 4 minutes of Handel is directed so SUBLIMELY that my heart aches watching it-It is one of the loveliest most exquisite 4 mins of music, editing, direction and overall artistry that I have ever seen and all I can say to ALL concerned is a GIANT MAHALO AND ALOHA!

Certified Intergalactic!

Beautiful performance.

I like the up tempo version of this performance. The song is usually played at a slower tempo, which is good, but this up tempo version is good also,

merry Christmas! birthday of Jesus the Savior of the world He loves you sooo much more than you can ever imagine have a wonderful day God bless you and your family

Wonderful. Thank you for being thoughtful and including the lyrics with the upload!

wow. the speed is good. beautiful song

HERMOSO...EXCELENTE INTERPRETACION¡¡

I remember this from college choir as one of the most difficult vocal pieces - funny, because I can't stand listening to it, but it was really fun to sing! (I'm a soprano.)

Beautiful harmony and good angle of camera!

That would be a visit to you by the Holy Spirit! Laus Deo!

Wowwwww!!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

excellente

such a great and wonderful choir..... congratulations.. L.

We're learning this song in our chorus class (really good song! ^-^)

Uma das melhores interpretações que já ouvi, magnífico!!!!!

Spot-on tempo!! Brilliantly directed!

!Wonderful

Jesus is God!!!!

They nailed it.

Handel's masterpiece!

Handel on speed...and I love it!

@helenacastro8539

6 жыл бұрын

Miserere mei

Makes me feel so good to be a Christian.

@progoodenterprises3673

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you

@murbo13

3 жыл бұрын

Rejoice!

@keiththomas3141

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, me too.

@michaelwayumba109

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you too

Beautiful

BRILLIANT!!!

Me gustan las matices que le da en los pasajes sublimes.

very wonderful !!

good voice & choir

Perfect! Thank You and God Bless You!

most lively performance ever

This is terrific! Who are these wonderful musicians? Wow! That is not easy. The breath control alone...