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
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