Classics Reconsidered: Handel’s Messiah (English Chamber Orchestra / Charles Mackerras)

Friday, July 12, 2024

Richard Wigmore and Lindsay Kemp assess how Charles Mackerras’s 1966 recording of Messiah stands up more than half a century later

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