I know that my Redeemer liveth

Fuchsia arrangement of the Handel aria for high voice and piano - with optional choir and band, as featured in Messyah

Bakground info:
Music of the Fuchsia is the name given to the duo of Rosemary Forbes-Butler (soprano) and Paul Ayres (piano). Through improvisation and performance they have made several new versions of Baroque songs by Lully, Purcell, Handel and others.
Subsequently, Paul extended the arrangement with choir and band, and this version has been used in Messyah, his re-written version of Handel's Messiah.

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...the highlight was the finale, a dazzling version of Handel's I know that my Redeemer liveth. This started conventionally enough and the words remained unchanged. But the music, with the original tune elaborated, edited and enlarged, and tempos accelerated or slowed, ended up as an exhilarating hybrid. It was an amalgam of cantata, beat, hot gospel etc that left both performers and audience breathless." [Iain Gilmour, reviewing a performance by Rosemary Forbes-Butler at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, on www.Edinburghguide.com, August 2003]

"After a brief moment of kidology that all was roughly as normal, 'I know that my Redeemer liveth' went gospel, crooned convincingly by tenor Tom Raskin with ravishing choral support. A show-stopper." [Andrew Green, reviewing a performance of this song as part of Messyah, a re-written version of Handel's Messiah, in Early Music Today, June/July 2006]