Händel - H 56 - Messiah - Part 3 no. 47/48 - The Trumpet Shall Sound - Bass; Neal Davies

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Neal Davies - bass, Cond. R Jacobs - Freiburger BO

47. Accompagnato

Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

(I Corinthians 15: 51-52)

48. Air

The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.
The trumpet. . . da capo

(I Corinthians 15: 52-53)

- On composing the 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Messiah, Handel is said to have remarked (1741), "Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows."
- On composing Messiah, Handel is said to have remarked (1741), "I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the great God Himself."
- Johann Sebastian Bach is attributed with the following remark: "[Handel] is the only person I would wish to see before I die, and the only person I would wish to be, were I not Bach."
- Upon hearing the above statement, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to have exclaimed: "Truly, I would say the same myself if I were permitted to put in a word"
- Jonathan Swift is said to have remarked (Dublin, 1742) while waiting for Handel to visit him, "O pray let me see a German genius before I die!"
- Upon hearing the 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Messiah, Joseph Haydn is said to have "wept like a child" and exclaimed: "He is the master of us all.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to have remarked, "Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt... though he often saunters, in the manner of his time, this is always something there."
- Ludwig van Beethoven is said to have exclaimed, "Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb."
- Ludwig van Beethoven, when asked to name the greatest composer ever, he is said to have responded, "Handel, to him I bow the knee."
- Ludwig van Beethoven, on his deathbed, in his referring to an edition of Handel's works, is reported to have said, "There is the truth''.