Today for Comfort at One, sing along from wherever you are with Trinity ensembles in this concert that has been a highlight of the holiday season. This Christmas extravaganza, the Community Carol Sing, features Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY, and the Trinity Youth Chorus.
Today, Comfort at One brings you Trinity ensembles, under the direction of Julian Wachner, performing parts one and three of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.
Trinity’s Messiah is unique—presented in a sacred space, on historic instruments, with soloists chosen from the choir to best complement each aria, air, and recitative. Trinity presented one of the first performances in North America in 1770, and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Julian Wachner are widely regarded as some of the greatest interpreters of the work.
For today’s Comfort at One, we give you one of the most dramatic movements of Messiah, “He was despised,” powerfully performed in this clip by Jonathan Woody of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
"Messiah Week" for Comfort at One continues as we feature another impressive choral movement featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. We hope that you enjoy Trinity’s interpretation of “Purify” in a performance praised by The New York Times: “With the church’s choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Mr. Wachner provides gritty, gutsy, edge-of-the-seat performances.”
Today’s Comfort at One "Messiah Week" continues with a series of solos from the Passion section in part two of the oratorio, featuring Thomas McCargar from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. In these scenes, Handel musically paints the scorn and agony of Christ leading up to his death.
Trinity and Handel’s Messiah go back a long way together, 250 years to be exact, and the earliest performances came with colorful stories of people from the days when New York City was just a small village. Watch this episode of Ask Trinity Archives with archivists Joe Lapinski and Marissa Maggs.
