Today we are sharing a video celebrating Messiah - the famous work by George Frederic Handel. It is a famous piece of classical music and it is full of quotations from the Bible - the King James Version. The video is a bit longer than our usual productions but it is worth taking the time to listen to this sacred oratorio. I have selected pieces relating to the Christmas story. Handel did not write the lyrics - he was given them by a Christian named Charles Jennens.
Handel was more interested in musical production and it suited him to produce Christian oratorios rather than operas for purely practical reasons. They needed fewer actors and actresses and he had found some of the latter to be temperamental. Handel was prone to have temper tantrums and he was a glutton and obese. Yet, it is amazing that this work was produced celebrating the person of Jesus the Messiah.
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