'In an interview ten years ago, Jane Glover confessed she'd done Messiah some 50 times, but liked to address it always to the audience member who'd never heard it before. She does that here, deliverin ...
'Glover's sense of drama, attention to detail and tempo relationships, and feeling for ritual nourish a persuasive interpretation, one backed by the Northern Sinfonia's stylish playing. Elizabeth Watt ...
'George Bernard Shaw said it should be a capital offence to perform Messiah with more than 80 musicians, and protested against the Victorians' 'attempts to make the brute force of a thousand throats d ...