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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.