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Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Handel's Messiah Highlights (Music CD)

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square present the triumphant and angelic sound of George Frideric Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Taking over two years to record, the choir conductor, Mack Wilberg, has painstakingly captured an awe-inspiring version of arguably the best choral work ever written. The attention to every detail is impeccable, the vocal performances are unforgettable, and the “Hallelujah” chorus performed by the 360-member Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the 85-member Orchestra at Temple Square will long be considered one of the best versions ever recorded.

This single-disc version features 15 popular selections from Handel’s Messiah.

Handel's Messiah
Edition: Wilberg

Highlights
14 tracks
Total Time: 1 hour

  • Overture
  • Comfort Ye My Little People
  • Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted
  • And the Glory of the Lord
  • O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
  • For Unto Us a Child Is Born
  • He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepard
  • Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
  • And with His Stripes We Are Healed
  • All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
  • Hallelujah
  • I Know That My Redeemer Lives
  • The Trumpet Shall Sound
  • Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain

About the Artist

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir represent men and women from many different backgrounds and professions and range in age from 25 to 60. They reflect a medley of unique lives and experiences and are brought together by their love for singing and their faith. Their incomparable voices are the common chord that unites to form the choral group known all over the world as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir originated in the mid-19th century in Salt Lake City. As the Latter-day Saints moved west, Church President Brigham Young included musicians among members of the advance parties. Consequently, a small choir first sang for a conference of the Church in the Salt Lake Valley on August 22, 1847, just 29 days after the first group arrived. The origins of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir may be found in the desire and commitment of early converts to include appropriate music in both sacred and secular events.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has appeared at 13 world's fairs and expositions, performed at the inaugurations of five U.S. presidents, and sung for numerous worldwide telecasts and special events. Five of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's recordings have achieved "gold record" and two have achieved "platinum record" status. The most popular was the Grammy-Award-winning 1959 release of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the Philadelphia Orchestra.




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