If you do. And, if you have not yet heard it this Christmas season, then you will want to listen to this.
NPR (National Public Radio) has on its website the complete Oratorio that was recorded a few years ago by the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
It is 1 hr. 57 minutes in length including a short advertisement for some other recording or whatever (which seems to be the thing websites do before they let you hear their content these days) and comments by several musicians and commentators that precede the actual performance.
All of that preliminary stuff takes about 9 minutes. Then the program begins.
So, even if you can no longer find a performance of the Messiah in your ‘neck of the woods’ (I can’t), then, thanks to high speed internet, we can still enjoy the beautiful inspiring, God-honoring music of Handel’s Messiah.
HERE'S THE LINK and when you get to that page, you will see a little link at the top of the page just above the picture. The little link says “Listen: Handel’s Messiah." Click on that and you will get it.
If you can't find that little link to click, then TRY THIS
