| 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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