This recording of Mozart’s edition of The Messiah conducted by Helmuth Rilling is one of the most thrilling interpretations of this rare work.

Helmuth Rilling has enjoyed an extraordinary career and earned a plethora of awards, most recently the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize in 2011 and the Martin Luther Medal in 2012. Now over 80 years old, he continues to be internationally active as a conductor and a teacher.

Mozart re orchestrated Händel’s score and re visited several arias to adapt the work to the changing tastes of Viennese Classics, rendering this not only a brilliant work in its own right, but an example of how Mozart embraced his Baroque predecessors.