Handel's Messiah | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Discovered at age nine and a celebrated composer by age eighteen, George Frideric Handel experienced a meteoric rise to  | dG1fR1hrREhsV3VpV28

Transcript

00:00Messiah, messenger, is it?

00:09Someone who brings messages to the world.

00:14Beethoven, we know, regarded Handel as the greatest composer.

00:21He said he is the master of us all.

00:25It's powerful stuff if you know where the power is in it.

00:29If you're not moved by this music, there's something wrong with you.

00:32You don't love music.

00:37There's nothing dishonest about Handel's music, ever.

00:40It comes directly from inside him and what you hear is what you get.

00:45Joy, reassurance, these are emotions that are common to all humanity.

00:50Messiah is the greatest oratory ever written.

00:56Messiah is a unique composition and it's a unique libretto, a unique text.

01:02It's about Christ as the saviour, the redeemer.

01:10Handel is the great entrepreneur in music.

01:13He's the chancer.

01:36It's at the bottom of that, the low point, where you find faith.

01:42Reason will never help you get there.