Pearl Acoustics - Great Recordings of all time
First performed in 1742, in many ways, The Messiah turned out to be Handel’s most famous and often played work. In this video, I take a look his life, his travels and his compositions, and play a selection of highly regarded recordings of this masterpiece.
Equipment used in this video:
Playback:
Loudspeakers: Pearl Acoustics SG
Preamplifier and Dac: Sugden Saphire DAP 800
Power Amplifier: Pearl Acoustics 170
CD Player (Transport): Lyngdorf CD-2
Cables: Loudspeaker cables: Pearl Acoustics Sibelius Neutral Balance
Interconnects: AudioQuest (various)
Listening Room acoustic panels: GIK
Recording:
Sennheiser ME-2 lavalier microphone with XSW-D wireless kit, coupled to a Zoom H6 with MSH-6 capsule activated
Content Links:
Spotify Link to intro & outro music:
‘Philia’ taken from The Four Loves, by Stefan Meylaers:
Zadok the Priest: https://open.spotify.com/track/2JoH4WelznXZHJeWxu8ALt?si=8c65a02e64ce4570
My three favourite versions:
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock: 1998 Archiv
Dunedin Consort • John Butt (Dublin Version, 1742) released on Linn records 2006
Britten Symphonia with Polophony conducted by Stephen Lytton: 2009 on Hyperion
Other featured versions (Symphony only):
The English Concert – John Nelson
London Philharmonic – Karl Richter
The Philharmonia Orchestra – Otto Klemperer
The New York Philharmonic – Leonard Bernstein
Boston Baroque – Martin Pearlman
Bach Consort Wein – Rubén Dubrovsky
About Pearl Acoustics:
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