Handel: Messiah
Barbara Schlick (soprano) Sandrine Piau (soprano) Tommy Williams (treble) Andreas Scholl (alto) Mark Padmore (tenor) Nathan Berg (bass) Les Arts Florissants William Christie (conductor) Recorded December 1993 BBC Music Magazine Christmas Issue 2013 “Christie negotiates both wide-eyed wonderment of the Nativity and the pathos of Part II with aplomb in a performance underpinned by luxury casting and instrumental finesse.”