Handel, arr Mozart Messiah at 7.30 tonight {NOT live apparently]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Do all the versions include 'And with His Stripes we are Healed ? There was always an announcement at Messiah rehearsals I went to that it would be dropped,so I don't remember it.

At amateur performances some choruses are dropped if they have been under-rehearsed, but the casualty is more often "His Yoke is Easy".

[jonfan]

The Huddersfield Choral Society were often conducted by Beecham and Sargent in the Mozart version, according to the programmes anyway.

Not that they would be the same choir members unless they were gamba's age or more.

I don't think Beecham ever conducted the HCS, at least not while Sargent was their conductor.

[arundodo]

My favourite of all performances of "Messiah" has to be the Beecham/RPO recording. But it has little to do with Handel. And almost none (I think) with Mozart. As the late Richard Hickox (clang!) once said to me : "you have no taste at all, do you?"

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Actually, Beecham's vast arrangement has a great deal to to with Handel (who composed every note) and Mozart (whose arrangement was the basis for the Beecham/Goossens orchestration.

[BBMmk2]

I have never liked this edition that Mozart made. For example, in the 'The Trumpet Shall Sound', WAM gave the trumpet part to an oboe!?!?!? Why?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have never liked this edition that Mozart made. For example, in the 'The Trumpet Shall Sound', WAM gave the trumpet part to an oboe!?!?!? Why?

Couldn't get the trumpeters by the end of the 18th Century, Bbm: a whole generation of specialist skills seem to have vanished.