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For the first time, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and its artistic director Peter Whelan have recorded what is probably the ensemble's most important work: Handel's Messiah, an annual highlight of the IBO's touring schedule. Surprisingly, this is the first recording on period instruments by an Irish ensemble - even though the work, a classic of oratorio music, was first performed in Dublin in 1742. In that year, the financially strapped Handel came to the second largest city in the British Isles to try his luck again. After the premiere (700 people attended, the ladies were asked to come without crinolines, the gentlemen without their swords), Handel left Dublin a much richer man.
The Irish Baroque Choir and a host of first-class singers (Hilary Cronin, Helen Charlston, Alexander Chance, Nathan Mercieca, Guy Cutting, Frederick Long and Edward Grint) join the IBO to try to capture something of the atmosphere of this extraordinary moment, in a recording that traces the origins of this timeless masterpiece.
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