"Actor: Christopher Hogwood"

• Christopher Hogwood - Handel's Messiah | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this performance of Handel's best-loved oratorio by the Academy of Ancient Music conductor Christopher Hogwood has returned to the original performance traditions. In Handel's day the Messiah was performed by fewer than forty instrumentalists and a chorus less than thirty strong of boy trebles and men. In this recording the choruses are sung by boy trebles and male altos tenors and basses and members of the Choir of Westminster Abbey. The soloists improvise embellishments in

• George Frideric Handel - Acis and Galatea (The Royal Opera / The Royal Ballet, 2009) | Blu Ray | (01/03/2010) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Haydn - The Creation - Orchestra Of The Academy Of Ancient Music | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-3.24 (-19.10%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A unique concert performance of Haydn's popular choral work set to beautiful BBC images of the natural world and great works of art by Haydn's contemporaries such as Blake and Turner chosen to match Haydn's own literal vision of the Bible's verse. Christopher Hogwood leads the Academy of Ancient Music and soloists Emma Kirkby (soprano) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) and Michael George (bass) in this original-instrument performance from the beautiful cathedral of Gloucester in the West of England. Tracklisting: 1. Haydn: The Creation - Opening Credits 2. Overture-The Representation Of Chaos 3. In The Beginning God Created The Heaven 4. Now Vanish Before The Holy Beams-Despairing..Rage 5. And God Made The Firmament 6. And God Said: Let The Waters Under The Heavens... 7. And God Said:Let The Earth Bring Forth Grass 8. And The Heavenly Hosts Proclaimed 9. And God Said: Let There Be Lights In The Firmament 10. The Heavens Are Telling The Glory Of God 11. And God Said: Let The Waters Bring Forth 12. And God Created Great Whales 13. And The Angels Struck Their Immortal Harps 14. The Lord Is Great 15. And God Said: Let The Earth Bring Forth 16. Now Heaven In Fullest Glory Shone 17. And God Created Man 18. And God Saw Everything 19. On Thee Each Living Soul Awaits 20. Achieved Is The Glorious Work 21. In Rosy Mantle Appears 22. By Thee With Bliss O Bounteous Lord 23. Of Stars The Fairest 24. Our Duty We Performed Now 25. Graceful Consort! At Thy Side 26. O Happy Pair 27. Haydn: The Creation - Closing Credits