| RECORDINGS |
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| LABEL: |
EMERGO
CLASSICS/SAGA CLASSICS |
| CATALOG
NUMBER: |
EC
3343-2 |
| UPC
NUMBER: |
016861334321 |
| NUMBER
OF DISCS: |
3 |
| RUNNING
TIME: |
57:22,
56:28, 34:98 |
| YEAR
RECORDED: |
1961 |
| CD
RELEASE DATE: |
1994 |
| CONDUCTOR: |
FREDERIC
JACKSON |
| ORCHESTRA: |
LONDON
PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA |
| CHOIR: |
LONDON
PHILHARMONIC
CHOIR |
| SOPRANO: |
HEATHER
HARPER |
| ALTO: |
HELEN
WATTS |
| TENOR: |
DUNCAN
ROBERTSON |
| BASS: |
ROGER
STALMAN |
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| AUDIO SAMPLES |
HIGHLIGHTS |
OTHER
RELEASES |
NONE
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DISC ONE
SIDE ONE
1. Overture
2. Comfort ye, my people
3. Ev'ry valley shall be exalted
4. And the glory of the Lord
5. Thus saith the Lord of hosts
6. But who may abide
7. And He shall purify
SIDE TWO
1. Behold, a virgin shall conceive
2. O thou that tellest good tidings
3. O thou that tellest good tidings
4. For behold! darkness shall cover
5. The people that walked in darkness
6. For unto us a child is born
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DISC
TWO
SIDE THREE
1. Pastorale Symphony
2. There were shepherds abiding in the
field / And the angel said unto
them
3. Glory to God in the highest
4. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion
5. Then shall the eyes of the blind be
open'd / He shall feed His flock
6. His yoke is easy, His burthen is
light
SIDE FOUR
1. Behold the Lamb of God
2. He was despised and rejected
3. Surely, He hath borne our griefs
4. And with His stripes we are healed
5. All we like sheep have gone astray
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DISC
THREE
SIDE FIVE
1. All they that see Him
2. He trusted in God
3. Thy rebuke hath borken His heart
4. Behold and see if there by any
sorrow
5. He was cut off out of the land
6. But thou didn't not leave his soul
in hell
7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates
8. Unto which of the angels
9. Let all the angels of God worship
10. Thou art gone up on high
SIDE SIX
1. The Lord gave the word
2. How beautiful are the feet
3. Their sound is gone out
4. Why do the nations so furiously
rage
5. Let us break their bonds
6. He that dwelleth in Heaven
7. Thou shalt break them with a rod
8. Hallelujah
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DISC FOUR
SIDE
SEVEN
1. I know that my Redeemer liveth
2. Since by man came death by man came
also the ressurection
3. For as in Adam all die even so in
Christ
4. Behold I tell you a mystery
5. The trumpet shall sound
SIDE EIGHT
1. Then shall be brought to pass
2. O death, where is thy sting?
3. But thanks be to God
4. If God is for us
5. Worthy is the Lamb
6. Blessing and honor
7. Amen |
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SITE RATING: 4/10
SITE
REVIEW:
One of the more obscure Messiahs
to come from
the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra
has been this 1961 effort
by former Chorus Master Frederic Jackson.
Jackson's name more
frequently is seen on the credits of the 1958
Susskind recording
which blankets the marketplace every
Christmas-time
in ultra-low-budget releases, but on this
later recording, made a mere
three years after the first, Jackson graduates
from Chorus Master to
Director of the London Philharmonic forces,
and delivers a
performance, which unfortunately, is only
slightly more accomplished
than the Susskind.
The orchestra and chorus play and sing
in a blunt, perfunctory
manner, giving wooden, somewhat bored
performances, led by Jackson's
unimaginative direction, which doesn't attempt
any interpretive color,
but merely gets the job done - the instances
where he does veer from
the norm, such as a surprising soft entrance
on "Glory To God" instead
of the usual breaking forth, reenforces the
banality of the rest of the
oratorio. The best that can be said about the
choir is that they are in
tune, and perform the larger choruses with
great fervor. The
soloists are all overheated, with wide
vibratos and suspect tone
colors; their extreme emotiveness more a
popular method of the times,
but still sounding forced and unnatural.
The glacial tempos can
best be judged by the program being spread out
over four
LP sides, instead of the usual three.
Still, there is great power
in some of the choruses - with a thrilling
"Worthy Is The Lamb" and the
final, declamatory "Amen." Released once
on CD in 1994, this
particular performance remains stubbornly
out-of-print, lacking the
wide-spread distribution of Susskind's
recording, and likely to remain
obscure.
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