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| LABEL: |
LORENZ
PUBLISHING COMPANY
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| CATALOG
NUMBER: |
CC44
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| UPC
NUMBER: |
UNKNOWN
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| NUMBER OF DISCS: |
1
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| RUNNING TIME: |
UNKNOWN
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| YEAR
RECORDED: |
1982
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| CD
RELEASE DATE: |
1982
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| CONDUCTOR: |
LARRY
PUGH
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| ORCHESTRA: |
N/A
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| CHOIR: |
N/A
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| SOPRANO: |
UNKNOWN
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| MEZZO-SOPRANO: |
UNKNOWN
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| TENOR: |
UNKNOWN
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| BARITONE: |
UNKNOWN
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DISC ONE
1. Overture and Comfort Ye My People
4:12
2. And the Glory of the Lord 1:56
3. The Lord Whom Ye Seek :33
4. But Who May Abide 2:48
5. Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive :28
6. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to
Zion 1:35
7. For Unto Us A Child is Born 2:40
8. There Were Sheperds Abiding in the
Fields :17
9. And Lo! The Angel of the Lord Came Upon
Them :21
10. And the Angel said Unto Them :35
11. And Suddenly, There was With the Angel
:23
12. Glory to God 2:14
13. Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be
Opened :32
14. He Shall Feed His Flock 5:51
15. Hallelujah 3:57
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SITE RATING: 1/10
SITE
REVIEW: Not a performance, per
se, but a promotional recording using
studio synthesizers and multi-tracked voices
in an effort to sell a "simplified" version of
Messiah arranged by Larry Pugh.
As such, it's not much to listen to - the
performance is rather cold and robotic, and
the "soloists" are definitely not
"classically" trained - the tenor sounds like
he dropped in from a karaoke bar, and in fact,
he takes the bass solos as well -
which is a little odd. And the soprano
and alto soloist are about the same caliber -
nice clear, unaffected voices, such as you
might find in any community college or local
talent show. As far as the "simplified
arrangement" goes, imagine Messiah
without all those pesky melismas - not unlike
The
Young Messiah or The
New Young Messiah, but still maintaining
some semblance of baroque purity about
it. The question I have for purchasers
of this simplified arrangement is this - if
you really can't realistically tackle a
fully-realized Messiah, why
bother? Do you really think that
audiences will enjoy a "dumbed-down"
version? Or that anyone would want to
hear a Messiah performed with the
synthesized "performance tracks" which you can
purchase on CD? Huh. A karaoke
Messiah. I think I'll pass.
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