I'm a little late, but if you're still watching for responses, I like to have one relatively "authentic" and one wildly inauthentic version on hand. For me that tends to be Gardiner (DG/Archiv) and Beecham. The Marriner is good. I haven't heard the Hogwood.

Most years, btw, I usually wind up giving two or three copies of the Beecham as Christmas presents -- don't even people who dislike classical music need a Messiah for the holiday season?