Today, at certain times, the world would perhaps need a sort of collective prayer, beyond contingencies, beyond faith, beyond differences of belief. Simply stand by each other and seek a deep spiritual union. Handel's Messiah immediately appeared engaging precisely because of its ability to transform itself into a collective prayer, made exciting by a music whose original trait is to be recognized in the writing, full of charm and energy.
“
There are no words - it was written at the time - to express
the refined pleasure that Handel's great Oratorio
has produced in the large audience.
The most sublime, great and delicate feelings,
adapted to the most majestic and moving words,
have conspired to drag the heart and the ecstatic ear
”
Especially if Fabio Biondi, a specialist in the Baroque repertoire par excellence, takes the stage of the Auditorium di Milano and drags the audience wide into Dublin in 1742, when it was performed for the first time.