With superb soloists, orchestra, and choir led by Maestro Kent Tritle, tonight’s Carnegie Hall performance Handel’s Messiah by the Oratorio Society of New York bolstered Messiah’s legacy as one of the greatest choral works ever written.
Maestro Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra delivered an elegant, nonpareil performance expressing the radiant afflatus of Handel’s artistic and spiritual masterpiece Messiah. The exquisite sound of the orchestra with period bows performed by orchestral virtuosos and Tritle‘s attention to purity and detail ensured the finest manifestations of Handel’s choral intentions. The ensemble delightfully conveyed the confidence and security of Handel’s musical counterpoint to elaborate the vital significance of the text, melody, harmonic structures, and the composer’s notable departures from antiquarian pedantry into the dash, freedom, and spontaneity of musical evolution.
Maestro Kent Tritle et al delivered an inspiring, splendid, diverse, and exciting musical program. Blend, articulation, intonation, and phrasing were superb, and conducting was precise and expressive.
Maestro Tritle and his Musica Sacra provided concertgoers with their gift of a sublime inspired performance of Handel’s Messiah.
