Messiah (The Complete Oratorio)

Album by George Frideric Handel & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus & Robert Shaw

Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741 and first performed in Dublin in 1742. Rooted in the Baroque tradition, it combines solo recitative and aria writing with large-scale choral sections and orchestral accompaniment, and it represents a prominent work in Handel's output and the Western choral repertoire.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Messiah: 1. Sinfonia
    3:38
  2. 2.
    Messiah: 2. Comfort Ye, My People / 3. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
    6:21
  3. 3.
    Messiah: 4. And the Glory of the Lord
    3:09
  4. 4.
    Messiah: 5. Thus Saith the Lord / 6. But Who May Abide / 7. And He Shall Purify
    8:28
  5. 5.
    Messiah: 8. Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive / 9. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
    5:43
  6. 6.
    Messiah: 10. For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth / 11. The People That Walked in Darkness
    5:48
  7. 7.
    Messiah: 12. For Unto Us a Child Is Born
    3:45
  8. 8.
    Messiah: 13. Pifa - 'Pastoral Symphony' / 14a. There Were Shepherds / 14b. And Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them / 15. And the Angel Said Unto Them / 16. And Suddenly There Was With the Angel / 17. Glory to God
    4:17
  9. 9.
    Messiah: 18. Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
    4:24
  10. 10.
    Messiah: 19. Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind
    0:27
  11. 11.
    Messiah: 20. He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd
    5:02
  12. 12.
    Messiah: 21. His Yoke Is Easy
    2:11
  13. 13.
    Messiah: 22. Behold the Lamb of God
    2:34
  14. 14.
    Messiah: 23. He Was Despised
    10:53
  15. 15.
    Messiah: 24. Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
    2:10

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Messiah: 25. And with His stripes we are healed / 26. All we like sheep
    6:09
  2. 3.
    Messiah: 27. All they that see him / 28. He trusted in God
    2:55
  3. 4.
    Messiah: 29. Thy rebuke hath broken His heart / 30. Behold, and see if there be any sorrow / 31. He was cut off out of the land of the living / 32. But thou didst not leave
    6:28
  4. 5.
    Messiah: 33. Lift up your heads
    2:53
  5. 6.
    Messiah: 34. Unto which of the angels / 35. Let all the angels of God worship Him
    1:41
  6. 7.
    Messiah: 36. Thou art gone up on high
    3:09
  7. 8.
    Messiah: 37. The Lord gave the word
    1:06
  8. 9.
    Messiah: 38. How beautiful are the feet
    2:22
  9. 10.
    Messiah: 39. Their sound is gone out
    1:23
  10. 11.
    Messiah: 40.Why do the nations? / 41. Let us break their bonds asunder
    4:42
  11. 12.
    Messiah: 42. He that dwelleth in heaven / 43. Thou shalt break them
    2:13
  12. 13.
    Messiah: 44. Hallelujah (chorus)
    3:47
  13. 14.
    Messiah: 45. I know that my Redeemer liveth
    5:34
  14. 15.
    Messiah: 46. Since by man came death
    1:50
  15. 16.
    Messiah: 47. Behold, I tell you a mystery / 48. The trumpet shall sound
    9:26
  16. 17.
    Messiah: 49. Then shall be brought to pass / 50. O death, where is thy sting / 51. But thanks be to God
    3:35
  17. 18.
    Messiah: 52. If God be for us
    4:49
  18. 19.
    Messiah: 53. Worthy is the lamb...Amen
    6:46

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