Talk:Messiah (Handel)

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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Messiah (Handel) - 2 --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:37, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Too Hot to Handel

I am watching a performance on PBS right now of 'Too Hot to Handel,' which is a gospel-music rearrangement of Handel's oratorio. This version has apparently been in regular performance since the 1990s, first in the United States. The televised version was recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London, conducted by Marian Alsop. Should this version be included in this article?

(I have never written for Wikipedia, so anyone who is interested should feel free to do so.) 76.29.103.254 (talk) 03:09, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps it should have its own article. Because this article has not even much room for Handel's music. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:08, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

Added links to two gospel arrangements of the Messiah in the See Also section. Transformasian (talk) 23:14, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

I added the internal link to the navbox at the bottom, removed the external link, and dropped the whole section. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:16, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

2024 book

Since there are no places in the article to identify books which aren't sources, I'll put the info below to see if anything from it can be used in the article.

• King, Charles (2024). Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780385548274.

Mapsax (talk) 02:58, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

untitled

I edited this page because as a reader, I was momentarily confused by the use of only a surname for the first mention of a significant person (Hogwood). Common usage in publishing is for the full name of a person to be given at the first mention, allowing the last name only in further references to that person. I explained that in my edit. Your "undo" gives no reason for "undo"ing. That's not courteous. Seauton (talk) 21:17, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I misunderstood your edit summary, please check. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:01, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Source of the Biblical text?

The "Libretto" section has a lot of random facts about Jennens but pretty much nothing about the detailed sources of the text. A quick comparison of Messiah with the King James Version of the Bible shows lots of differences (e.g. I just looked at Psalm 2). ??? Bhami (talk) 17:21, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

Yes, as it says in Structure of Handel's Messiah: the scripture from the Psalms [are] taken from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, which is derived from the Great Bible of 1539. There is one exception: the text of the tenor aria "Thou Shalt Break Them", from Psalm 2:9, is taken from the King James Version. Michael Ly (talk) 13:06, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

These details were considered as too much for the main article but are covered in detail (for each movement) in the Structure article, repeated in the articles for the three parts. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:48, 13 October 2025 (UTC)