Gli Angeli Genève
Hors-série: Messiah , Haendel
- Gli Angeli Genève was founded in 2005 by Stephan MacLeod. This ensemble of variable size plays on period instruments (or copies thereof) and comprises musicians who pursue a career in baroque music but are not active in the field of ancient music only. Their eclecticism guarantees freshness and enthusiasm.
- Since its creation, Gli Angeli Genève has been the meeting point for some of the most famous singers and instrumentalists on the international baroque scene and young graduates of the Basel, Lyon, Lausanne and Geneva music schools.
Gli Angeli Genève has a regional support agreement with the City of Geneva, the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the Théâtre du Crochetan
- 7.30 pm
- Victoria Hall
Concert presentation by Philippe Albèra at 6.45 pm
- 5.00 pm
- Victoria Hall
Concert presentation by Philippe Albèra at 4.15 pm
Handel’s Messiah is, for very good reasons, one of the most beautiful, but also one of the most famous and most frequently performed and sung works in the Western musical heritage. Gli Angeli Genève perform it once or twice every December at Victoria Hall, with a wonderful lineup of vocal soloists, led this year by Jeanine De Bique.
We, as musicians, always return to it with fascination, wondering how such a succession of hit pieces — how a libretto made up of such disparate excerpts from the earliest English translations of the Bible — can come together to form such a perfect and intangible whole. One might be tempted to reduce the work to the most famous Hallelujah in history or to a few arias and choruses that are among the most hummed in the world. But the true secret of the eternal success of the Oratorio of oratorios, the King of Kings, lies in the exceptional quality of its structure, in the intelligence with which Jenkins and Handel manage to tell the entire life of Christ in just 140 minutes, and in the way it synthesizes an entire liturgical year of praises and religious songs.
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Building E, door 40, level 1.
Mon. to Fri. : 9am – 1:30pm / 2pm to 5pm
022 917 11 11
Handel’s Messiah is, for very good reasons, one of the most beautiful, but also one of the most famous and most frequently performed and sung works in the Western musical heritage. Gli Angeli Genève perform it once or twice every December at Victoria Hall, with a wonderful lineup of vocal soloists, led this year by Jeanine De Bique.
We, as musicians, always return to it with fascination, wondering how such a succession of hit pieces — how a libretto made up of such disparate excerpts from the earliest English translations of the Bible — can come together to form such a perfect and intangible whole. One might be tempted to reduce the work to the most famous Hallelujah in history or to a few arias and choruses that are among the most hummed in the world. But the true secret of the eternal success of the Oratorio of oratorios, the King of Kings, lies in the exceptional quality of its structure, in the intelligence with which Jenkins and Handel manage to tell the entire life of Christ in just 140 minutes, and in the way it synthesizes an entire liturgical year of praises and religious songs.