Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses on the Oratorio of Handel

LibriVox recording of Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses on the Oratorio of Handel by John Newton. Read in English by volunteer readers. The celebrated German-British composer G.F. Handel premiered his now famous oratorio "Messiah" in 1742. In 1785 there was a celebration at Westminster Abbey of Handel's birth 100 years before. It was on this occasion that John Newton decided to preach 50 sermons from the Bible passages that form the libretto (by Charles Jennens) of Messiah. The sermons were preached over two years in the Parish Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street - 3 miles from West