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This Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square recording of Handel’s Messiah relies on historical research and Baroque musical tradition to create a new landmark Messiah for our time.

This Messiah Highlights version contains fourteen selections from the oratorio, including seven of the most familiar and beloved choruses and beautiful arias. Pieces that feature the each of the acclaimed soloists are also presented.

This musical masterpiece by George Frideric Handel, first performed in the spring of 1742, has become one of the world’s most beloved musical works. Over the years the Choir has performed selections from Messiah multiple times. In fact, the Choir’s very first recording in 1910 included the famous “Hallelujah” chorus. In 1959 the Choir’s recording of Messiah was a best-selling album and one of the most successful classical recordings of its time.

“In recent years, new insights about the music of the Baroque period has emerged,” said Mack Wilberg. After detailed historical research and examination of every note of the vocal and instrumental parts of Messiah, Wilberg and the Choir and Orchestra worked diligently to capture the Baroque performance aesthetics of Handel’s composition.  Musicologist Luke Howard observed that this Messiah recording “is different. This is a new approach that combines historical research with the kind of sound that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir can produce, which is a big, rich, 19^th Century Sound.”

Learn about the guest artists who sang with the Choir for this amazing work.