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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 Complete Oratorio version contains every movement on two compact discs and comes with a DVD with over 40 minutes of bonus content. An added feature is a code for a free high definition 320k mp3 or FLAC digital download.

The bonus DVD includes exclusive footage of interviews with the soloists, with conductor Mack Wilberg on the motivation for this recording, with musicologist Luke Howard on Messiah’s historical background, and with painter J. Kirk Richards about the creation of the moving cover artwork, plus a special music video of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square performing Handel’s “Hallelujah” chorus in the historic Tabernacle on Temple Square.

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.