Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses on the Oratorio of Handel
Author(s): John Newton
Genre(s): Music, Christianity - Other
Narrators: InTheDesert, Thaddeus Griebel, Kerry Adams, Kyle Stedman, Beeswaxcandle, Showard, Owlivia, Gillian Hendrie, Ron Altman, Ruth P., James En, Jaime Kurzweg, Jenno, Charles Zwick Jr., Andy Glover, Ahikam Devadason
Number of Chapters: 50
Length: 20 hours and 36 minutes
Language: English
The celebrated German-British composer G.F. Handel premiered his now famous oratorio "Messiah" in 1742. In 1785 there was a celebration at Westminster Abbey of Handel's birth 100 years before. It was on this occasion that John Newton decided to preach 50 sermons from the Bible passages that form the libretto (by Charles Jennens) of Messiah. The sermons were preached over two years in the Parish Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street - 3 miles from Westminster Abbey. - Summary by InTheDesert