As we look forward to the third Sunday of Lent, traditionally known as Gaudete Sunday (the Sunday of exceding joy), why not prepare in a musical fashion?
Who better to set the tone than Trevor Pinnock, one of the most foremost musicologists. In this case, the piece being discussed is the first vocal score for the famous Messiah by Georg Fredrik Handel. Of course no celebration of joy would be complete without reference to other passages in this great musical work such as the tenor opener in the narrative of the operetta and of course the choral opener which sets the stage for the first part of the work, all the texts of which celebrate the Advent period of waiting for the celebration of Christmas.
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