Posted by:
elderolddog
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Date: October 19, 2018 09:48PM
During my misspent youth, come the Christmas season, I would get out the family 4-record Columbia Records edition of The Messiah and play the whole thing, four records, turn them over, four more platters.
I thought it was super-duper, all those voices and the magnificent Philadelphia Symphony orchestra, probably 100+ strong!
A few years ago I discovered what is now my favorite version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ZfXs_3EcEThe choir consists of 35 males, obviously from pre-pubescent to adult, to cover the four parts. That's less than 1/10th the number in the MoTab. And then the orchestra, playing period instruments, has fewer members than the accompanying choir.
Quality AND intimacy!!! (Also the secret to good dating!)
So count me in on the push to heap disdain on the 360 member-strong MoTab choir.