Messiah

Album by George Frideric Handel & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Huddersfield Choral Society & Sir Malcolm Sargent & Isobel Baillie

Messiah is an oratorio by the Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, first performed in 1742. Scored for choir, soloists and orchestra, it synthesises Biblical texts into a sequence of choral and solo movements in the Baroque style and is part of Handel's later output, contributing to the development of the English oratorio tradition.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Messiah: Overture-Sinfonia
    5:00
  2. 2.
    Messiah: Recitative "Comfort ye my people"
    3:33
  3. 3.
    Messiah: Aria "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted"
    3:47
  4. 4.
    Messiah: Chorus "And the glory, the glory of the Lord"
    3:09
  5. 5.
    Messiah: Recitative "Thus said the Lord"
    1:53
  6. 6.
    Messiah: Aria "But who may abide"
    5:05
  7. 7.
    Messiah: Chorus "And he shall purify"
    2:56
  8. 8.
    Messiah: Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"
    0:25
  9. 9.
    Messiah: Aria "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"
    6:51
  10. 10.
    Messiah: Recitative "For behold, darkness shall come over the earth"
    2:53
  11. 11.
    Messiah: Aria "The people that walked in the darkness"
    4:07
  12. 12.
    Messiah: Chorus "For unto us a Child is born"
    4:38
  13. 13.
    Messiah: Pastoral symphony
    4:20
  14. 14.
    Messiah: Recitative "There were shepherds"
    0:21
  15. 15.
    Messiah: Recitative "And lo, the angel of the lord"
    0:28
  16. 16.
    Messiah: Recitative "And the angels said unto them"
    0:24
  17. 17.
    Messiah: Chorus "For unto you is born this day"
    0:24
  18. 18.
    Messiah: Recitative "And suddenly there was with the angel"
    0:25
  19. 19.
    Messiah: Chorus "Glory to God in the highest"
    2:22
  20. 20.
    Messiah: Aria "Rejoice greately, o daughter of Zion"
    4:49
  21. 21.
    Messiah: Recitative "Then shall the eyes of the blind"
    0:29
  22. 22.
    Messiah: Duet "And he shall feed his flock"
    6:44
  23. 23.
    Messiah: Chorus "His yoke is easy"
    2:44

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Behold the lamb of God"
    4:04
  2. 3.
    Messiah: Part II. Aria "He was despised"
    4:48
  3. 4.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Surely he has borne our griefs"
    2:50
  4. 5.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "And with his stripes we were healed"
    2:20
  5. 6.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "All we like sheep"
    4:38
  6. 7.
    Messiah: Part II. Recitative "All they that see Him"
    1:02
  7. 8.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "He trusted in god"
    2:17
  8. 9.
    Messiah: Part II. Recitative "Thy rebuke hath broken his heart"
    1:40
  9. 10.
    Messiah: Part II. Aria "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow"
    2:06
  10. 11.
    Messiah: Part II. Recitative "He was cut off the land"
    0:23
  11. 12.
    Messiah: Part II. Aria "But thou didst not leave his soul in hell"
    2:26
  12. 13.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Lift up your heads"
    3:29
  13. 14.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "The lord gave the word"
    1:33
  14. 15.
    Messiah: Part II. Aria-soprano "How beautiful are the feet"
    3:15
  15. 16.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Their sound is gone out"
    2:06
  16. 17.
    Messiah: Part II. Aria-Bass "Why do the nations?"
    2:38
  17. 18.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Let us break their bonds asunder"
    2:19
  18. 19.
    Messiah: Part II. Recitative "He that dwelleth in heaven"
    0:19
  19. 20.
    Messiah: Part II. Aria "Thou shalt break them"
    2:01
  20. 21.
    Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Hallelujah!"
    4:39
  21. 22.
    Messiah: Part III. Aria "I know that my Redeemer liveth"
    8:22
  22. 23.
    Messiah: Part III. Chorus "Since by man come death"
    2:30
  23. 24.
    Messiah: Part III. Recitativ-bass "Behold, I tell you a mystery"
    0:39
  24. 25.
    Messiah: Part III. Aria-bass "The trumpet shall sound"
    4:08
  25. 26.
    Messiah: Part III. Chorus "Worthy is the Lamb... "
    4:15
  26. 27.
    Messiah: Part III. Chorus "Amen"
    3:44

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