En primer lugar hemos de destacar la excelencia del Dunedin Consort and Players, conjunto nacido en 1966 constituido por una docena de cantantes y dieciséis instrumentistas. Escuchándoles cuesta creer que sea un grupo tan reducido. El coro muestra un excelente equilibrio entre las voces de cada cuerda, huye de la espectacularidad y da la impresión de cantar sin esfuerzo alguno, con la mayor naturalidad del mundo. Magnifico empaste y bellísimo timbre.

José Prieto Marugán, OpusMúsica

Butt bravely resolves to use the same forces Handel had at his disposal in Dublin, which means that the entire oratorio is sung by a dozen singers (with all soloists required to participate in the choruses, as Handel would have expected). Where this approach might risk worthy dull solos churned out by stalwart choir members, the Dunedin Consort’s exemplary singers produce virtuoso choruses that are theatrically charged, splendidly poised and exquisitely blended. Old warhorses ‘For unto us a child is born’ and ‘Surely he hath borne our griefs’ are delightfully inspiring. Butt and the Dunedin Consort marry astute scholarship to sincere artistic expression and the result is comfortably the freshest, most natural, revelatory and transparently joyful Messiah I have heard for a very long time.

David Vickers, Gramophone Magazine