11 reviews

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Dts Surround Sound, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 156 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: 000123209
UPC: 044007043295
EAN: 0044007043295

Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: October 14, 2003
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3 out of 5 stars

Disappointing February 18, 2008
Teemacs (Switzerland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Nev Marriner and the ASMF can usually be relied upon to produce a sparkling performance, and they and the ASMF Chorus do, in this Dublin performance to celebrate the first performance (in a long-disppeared venue in Fishamble Street). In particular, Mark Bennett, the trumpeter, playing a modern piccolo trumpet, produces the best trumpet part in "The trumpet shall sound" that I've ever heard, naturally far better than Valentine Snow could have played it with his natural trumpet.

So what's the problem? The tenor and bass soloists, that's what. Both are major disappointments. Especially with note runs of the "And I will sha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-(etc.)-ke". The notes are not clearly enunciated and just plain tuneless. It spoiled the whole thing for me.

For a really top DVD version of "Messiah", seek out the ABC (as in Australian Broasdcasting Corporation) Shop, which is selling a an absolute knockout Downunder version as a CD/DVD package. I expected a Region 4 DVD (I have a code-free player), but the DVD appears code-free. The bass Terry Tahu Rhodes is especially good (there are clips on YouTube).

2 out of 5 stars

Jarring Soloists! February 11, 2008
Richard Bruce Wood
The orchestra and chorus are superb as is the video. The ornamentations used by the (especially the female)soloists are in maginal taste and quite often jarring. Buy something else!

1 out of 5 stars

What version of the score was used? January 12, 2008
Telstar (Los Angeles, Ca USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have a number of versions of the score for this, and there are a lot of pitch and rhythm changes in this performance that are NOT based on what Handel wrote (and I am not talking about solo vocal passages, with their rather awful improvisations...but ensemble).

The tenor is awful! He sings sharp at important points. The Basso Continuo is completely lost in ensemble.

Marriner himself seems to give a very perfunctory, uninspired reading.

The strings and brass are, as usual, fine.

Therefore, I completely disagreee with everyone that has written here.

5 out of 5 stars

Handel's Messiah January 8, 2008
MLE (Washington)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The orchestra using instuments used in Handel's time were enjoyable. Made it seem more authentic. The chorus was good and so were the solo singers.

5 out of 5 stars

Very Enjoyable Performance December 27, 2007
B. Wilkinson (Irvine, CA USA)
This is a very good performance. I am not a music expert, but I previously enjoyed Andrew Parrott's performance Handel: Messiah very much. And like it, this performance utilizes a contratenor. The video lets you enjoy a concert performance anytime you're in the mood. There is also an audio CD available Handel - Messiah / McNair von Otter Chance Hadley Lloyd Marriner. I'm glad to have both the DVD and CD.