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Handel: Messiah

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from: Double Decca

Release Date September 18, 1995
The singers in this recording deliver beautiful performances, both the soloists and the chorus - good phrasing, diction, and ensemble singing. However, I didn't realize before buying this CD that, as the liner notes say, "Neville Mariner's recording is based on the first London performance of 1743, and several numbers are markedly different from the more familiar later versions." Some pieces are sung by different voice parts, and others include bars of music that Handel cut or changed later. The most disappointing part for me was "But who may abide," (sung by bass instead of alto) which lacks the prestissimo "refiner's fire" section that most of us are used to (and which I really enjoy!) This would certainly ... Read More:

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Handel: Messiah /Gritton · Röschmann · Fink · C Daniels · Davies · Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh

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by: Gabrieli Consort Gabrieli Players Paul McCreesh

Release Date August 09, 2004
I agree with the other reviewers in that there are some very good things in this recording, but the overall performance is, for me, very disappointing. It gets off to a bad start with the first recitative "Comfort ye" being taken at a funereal pace, and followed by "Ev'ry valley" sung as though the last train was due in a few minutes, and everyone had to be through in time to catch it! Other tempi are likewise somewhat, to say the least, unusual, and the setting of the words in the aria "The trumpet shall sound" is completely bizarre. The soloists are, on the whole, good, though soprano I is inferior to soprano II, and the contralto is variable. The orchestra and chorus are good, but it is the overall performance that, for me, is not satisfactory. ... Read More:

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The Last Valley

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by: John Barry with Crouch End Festival Chorus & The Prague Philharmonic

Release Date October 23, 2001
I have been a Barry Fan for years, and I rate The Last Valley as his best film score. However, this re-make leaves a lot to be desired. If you have never heard the original, then you will enjoy this. but I am totally familiar with the original, and I found this recording dissapointing. The orchestral work is o.k. The original was superb. The choral work is o.k. The original was outstanding. Having searched for the original on C.D. but not found it, I must now somehow make my own from the vinyl The Last Valley (Prague Po, Raine)

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Hawaii

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by: Various

Release Date August 21, 2006
I have been a Barry Fan for years, and I rate The Last Valley as his best film score. However, this re-make leaves a lot to be desired. If you have never heard the original, then you will enjoy this. but I am totally familiar with the original, and I found this recording dissapointing. The orchestral work is o.k. The original was superb. The choral work is o.k. The original was outstanding. Having searched for the original on C.D. but not found it, I must now somehow make my own from the vinyl The Last Valley (Prague Po, Raine)

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A Handel Festival

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from: Intersound

Release Date October 18, 1994
I have been a Barry Fan for years, and I rate The Last Valley as his best film score. However, this re-make leaves a lot to be desired. If you have never heard the original, then you will enjoy this. but I am totally familiar with the original, and I found this recording dissapointing. The orchestral work is o.k. The original was superb. The choral work is o.k. The original was outstanding. Having searched for the original on C.D. but not found it, I must now somehow make my own from the vinyl The Last Valley (Prague Po, Raine)

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Country Gospel

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by: Various

Release Date February 22, 2005
I have been a Barry Fan for years, and I rate The Last Valley as his best film score. However, this re-make leaves a lot to be desired. If you have never heard the original, then you will enjoy this. but I am totally familiar with the original, and I found this recording dissapointing. The orchestral work is o.k. The original was superb. The choral work is o.k. The original was outstanding. Having searched for the original on C.D. but not found it, I must now somehow make my own from the vinyl The Last Valley (Prague Po, Raine)

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Masters of Gospel

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by: Rambos

Release Date March 01, 1994
I have been a Barry Fan for years, and I rate The Last Valley as his best film score. However, this re-make leaves a lot to be desired. If you have never heard the original, then you will enjoy this. but I am totally familiar with the original, and I found this recording dissapointing. The orchestral work is o.k. The original was superb. The choral work is o.k. The original was outstanding. Having searched for the original on C.D. but not found it, I must now somehow make my own from the vinyl The Last Valley (Prague Po, Raine)

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Life Is What You Make Of it

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by: Steve Travis

Release Date July 03, 2006
I have been a Barry Fan for years, and I rate The Last Valley as his best film score. However, this re-make leaves a lot to be desired. If you have never heard the original, then you will enjoy this. but I am totally familiar with the original, and I found this recording dissapointing. The orchestral work is o.k. The original was superb. The choral work is o.k. The original was outstanding. Having searched for the original on C.D. but not found it, I must now somehow make my own from the vinyl The Last Valley (Prague Po, Raine)