Philadelphia Orchestra performs its freshest Messiah in years

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Handel’s Messiah, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of guest conductor Jeannette Sorrell, is the freshest it's felt in years.

feels more like a brand name than the idiosyncratic, shape-shifting masterpiece that it is.

Handel was never an etched-in-stone composer, and in that spirit, Sorrell seems to encourage highly personal ornamentation from the vocal soloists, and sometimes cut the instrumentation down to a few intimate players with herself on harpsichord — while also drawing first-class choral singing from the

 

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