Handel Messiah Highlights
Album by George Frideric Handel
Handel Messiah Highlights is a compilation album of excerpts from the oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel, associated with the work composed in 1741 and first performed in 1742. The compilation distils the larger sacred oratorio into a concise sequence of choral and solo passages that exemplify Baroque vocal writing and provides an accessible overview of the work's structure and its enduring role in the Western choral tradition.
First released: 1st January 2000
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- 1.Hallelujah
- 2.Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
- 3.O' Thou Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
- 4.How Beautiful Are the Feet
- 5.Why Do the Nations
- 6.For Unto Us a Child Is Born
- 7.Comfort Ye My People
- 8.We Trusted in God
- 9.I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
- 10.The Trumpet Shall Sound
- 11.Amen
