@@mariaestherbendezuavellane4429 Sir Neville Marriner dirija. El coro es de Academia de St. Martin in the Fields. Tengo el DVD con el coro completo de este coro de Mesías. Valió la pena comprarlo.
Sylvia McNair is the greatest soprano ever! I get chills every time I watch this video...she is the greatest! I first saw this in the early 90's and it is just a great today as it was back then. I am thankful that she has overcome the hardships she has endured over the past few years and wish her the best!
Rick Blake Can you be specific about her hardships? At the time of our interview, she was young & looking up the mountain she’d climb w joyous alacrity. What has happened, I mean, besides age & fewer occasions to sing? Is she not head of some music school, not giving master classes? Or has she lost some significant persons in her life? I hate to think of her in distress, even tho’ we all go through these times. Thanks, in advance, for anything that might help me to understand, Blake.
@@mckavitt13 She's a cancer survivor. From the sound of it, around 2006 she had a severe bout with it. But she fought through and is still with us today.
Brava, Miss McNair!! What distinct diction & not even British! I still remember our wonderful interview at Opera de Lyon quite a few years back. You were singing Béatrice et Bénédicte, I believe. Unforgettable!
Glorious, thrilling delivery though I wouldn't elevate her to the position of "The greatest soprano ever". I especially warmed to her tasteful trills; as for the cadenza it was intelligently inventive and the more delightful as a result. Unlike the vast majority of sopranos there isn't the remotest trace of squeal in the upper register, the tone mellifluous throughout indeed. Altogether beyond joyful.
This is the original version and can be found in the Coopersmith and Beirenreiter Editions. It is in 12/8. There is even a 12/8 version of this where Handel cut 48 bars! There is even a tenor version which Mozart used.
HL Watts Handel has written this particular piece in two versions: 12/8 and 4/4. In this video, Sylvia sings the 12/8 version. Perhaps you've heard the 4/4 in the past? The 4/4 seems to be more prevalent in RU-vid.
Actually, Handel wrote several versions employing differing time signatures of which this is one. He was also wonderfully 'accommodating' as it were to the varying skills of the artistes available at any given time. In passing, there's a wonderful story that even as he was travelling to Dublin to conduct the very first performance of "Messiah", delayed en route because of storms, he was altering the score here and there. He sent word ahead (to Chester I think I'm correct in saying) to assemble a quartet of singers to try out his doodlings, so to speak, instructing that they must be able to sight-read. Unfurtunately, in the event the bass incurred the great man's famous wrath because it turned out the poor creature was clearly having great difficulty complying with the composer's stipulation. Mr H thundered, "I was told that you could sight-read Herr Whateverhisnamewas" to which the hapless man haltingly responded, "Ah yes, Herr Handel, but, alas, not at first sight!" Priceless.
I think most people.understand that the 'nations' refers to those who were not worshippers of YHWH', The King James version also refers to them as 'foreign' or 'strangers'. Was the book of Zachariah written in Aramaic?. But what a beautifully understated performance, almost intimate, and the musicians pick up on that and play the same way as she sings!
Handel utilizó el texto bíblico de la versión King James y el español que aquí se lee es de la versión Reina Valera donde naciones es sinónimo de gentiles o paganos :)
Audición REJOICE.CANTA SOLO EL SOLISTA EN VOZ FEMENINA debe de ser muy aguda.En este bonito fragmente la orquesta replica a la voz,repitiendo los mismos motivos melódicos que primero ha cantado la soprano.
Handel wrote both versions. Personally I find this far more lyrical, the 4/4 is clunky and ponderous by comparison. In addition, it is in 12/8 not 6/8 and IT IS NOT A TARANTELLA !
@@steerpike1359 I completely agree, Chris. This is my favourite version by far and if I’m not mistaken I believe it was Handel’s original version before he started changing it. The 4/4 sounds indeed clunky and quite boxy to my ears. This one sounds much more joyful! I wish more groups performed it this way.