An authentic scale performance of Basil Lam 's edition, using a choir of some 30 voices and an orchestra playing on period or modern copies of period instruments.
ELIZABETH HARRISON (900) KEVIN SMITH
(counter-tenor)
PAUL ELLIOTT (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass) LOUIS HALSEY SINGERS LOUIS HALSEY BAROQUE ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE LESLIE PEARSON (harpsichord)
MARTIN NEARY (Organ) conducted by LOUIS HALSEY Part 1
8.25* Interval Reading
During the intervals, readings of religious verse by FR CHRISTOPHER PEMBERTON -
8.30* Messiah, Part
9.25* Interval Reading
9.30* Messiah, Part 3