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Choir Works

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Paul Guinery is joined by Lyndon Jenkins to introduce the original recording of Thomas Beecham's version of Handel's Messiah, re-orchestrated by Eugene Goosens in 1959. Beecham believed that a version of Messiah using full symphony orchestra would help to bring Handel's masterpiece back into popular favour. But it was the revival of period performance practices ten years later which was to achieve his aim.

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Monica Sinclair (contralto), Jon Vickers (tenor). Giorgio Tozzi (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham

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Presenter:
Paul Guinery
Guest:
Lyndon Jenkins
Source: Radio Times

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