# Help me buy a new Messiah CD

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-a-new-messiah-cd/273484 "2004-11-07T11:48:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-a-new-messiah-cd/273484/1 "2004-11-07T11:48:01Z")

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I only have one CD of Handel’s Messiah. It is about 15 years old and I’m looking for a new one. Mine is from the Maryland Handel Festival on a Pro Arte CD.

Conducter: Antal Dorati  
Soloists: Edith Mthis, James Bowman, Claes Ahnsjo, Tom Krause  
Univseristy of Maryland Chorus  
Smithsonian Conceto Grosso

Anyone have any personal favourites to recommend?

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**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-buy-a-new-messiah-cd/273484/2 "2004-11-07T17:05:04Z")

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I highly recommend the 250th anniversary recording (done in 1992) with the Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. The soloists are Sylvia McNair, Anne-Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Jerry Hadley, and Robert Lloyd. It’s a terrific performance, and the soloists are by and large excellent, especially the women… 🙂