Eric Kisch wrote:
>And for the record, Sir Charles made very fine recordings of Messiah
>and Israel in Egypt. Not original instruments but HIP enough for light
>textures and plenty of bounce - - as well as the necessary Handelian
>grandeur.
There might be light textures and plenty of bounce, but those modern
strings ruin it for me.
I think highly of Mackerras in most of the repertoire he has recorded, but
his Handel I can not appreciate. In the Terfel Handel aria disc, Mackerras
was the conductor, and he did a very poor job. He managed to make Handel
sound ordinary to me, and that's not easy to do. He took the life out of
Handel's music.
Don