Handel's Messiah: His Yoke Is Easy

The SPCO performs an excerpt from George Frideric Handel's Messiah.

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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
The Singers — Minnesota Choral Artists, chorus
Matthew Culloton, artistic director
Recorded December 20-23, 2018 at the Ordway Concert Hall

[FlowersInHisHair]

They make it look so easy, so e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-easy

[georgehaigler]

❤ Breathtakenly Beautiful! His Yoke IS Easy and His Burden IS Light! Praise the Lord!!!

[carolzulu]

Stunning performance that touches the heart and soul. 🎹🎻🎹

[doris]

So beautiful! I really like the way you slow the tempo down towards the end.
Thank you so much! Just beautiful!!❤❤❤

[adrianplatt]

I agree with an earlier comment: Best performance of this piece I have ever heard. One of my very favourite choruses. Love the Amen chorus too at the end with its magical use of canon. Magnificent, the way the exacting pace is pulled back for the final assertion of the opening words... then after the 'halt' that comes before the last few bars, WOW what sensitivity and blending together, feeling each other's notes as they merge their parts to bring the final cadence with precise timing and togetherness. Absolutely lovely.

[basseybassey]

This is so lovely. I love the breadth control. Truly, His yoke is easy and His burden is light

[ysuke]

Every line, every composition of Handel is brilliant

[mdwms]

Handel's favorite instrument was the oboe which is one reason he used 2 oboes in this orchestration, which is the original one. I've played it over 50 times.

[ysuke]

No doubt the best performance of this piece

[isaacmensahdogbe]

The best performance of this piece I have ever seen.

[최성욱-xg]

Job 28:20 - 28
20. Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
21. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
22. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
23. God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
24. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
25. To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
26. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
27. Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
28. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

[lenorathompson]

Brings back such happy memories of going to the SPCO Messiah sing-a-long as a child with my family!!! There's is no more divine music. Thank you for this!

[rev.stephena.cakouros]

When Jesus said "Take my yoke upon you and you will find rest unto your souls" ''He was not saying that the Christian will have it easy in this world. He was saying that sin UNLIKE righteousness has a terrible kickback or reciprocity.. Puritan saying, :"If you wear the yoke of sin it will gall l your neck. You will pass from the pleasure of sin to the pain o sin."
May God keep us in the way where we will rest in Jesus.

[ysuke]

I don't know why people say Bach is better than Handel.