The Messiah
Album by George Frideric Handel & Elizabeth Harwood & Norma Procter & Alexander Young & John Shirley‐Quirk & Arnold Greir & Royal Choral Society & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Malcolm Sargent
The Messiah is an English-language oratorio by George Frideric Handel, completed in 1742 and first performed in Dublin that year. Scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, it combines Baroque recitative, aria and large choral movements with orchestral accompaniment and occupies a central place in Handel's output and in the development of the English oratorio tradition.
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Disc 1
- 1.Part I: Overture5:09
- 2.Part I: Recit - “Comfort Ye”4:00
- 3.Part I: Air - “Every Valley”4:16
- 4.Part I: Chorus - “And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed”3:51
- 5.Part I: Recit - “Thus Saith the Lord”1:51
- 6.Part I: Air - “But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming”5:31
- 7.Part I: Chorus - “And He Shall Purify”3:07
- 8.Part I: Recit - “Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive”0:32
- 9.Part I: Air - “O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion”7:12
- 10.Part I: Recit - “For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth”2:56
- 11.Part I: Air - “The People That Walked in the Darkness”5:06
- 12.Part I: Chorus - “For Unto Us a Child Is Born”5:18
- 13.Part I: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)4:00
- 14.Part I: Recit - “There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Fields”0:25
- 15.Part I: Recit - “And Low the Angel”0:29
- 16.Part I: Recit - “And the Angel Said Unto Them”0:25
- 17.Part I: Recit - “For Unto You”0:28
- 18.Part I: Recit - “And Suddenly There Was With the Angel”0:25
- 19.Part I: Chorus - “Glory to God”2:47
- 20.Part I: Air - “Rejoice Greatly O Daughter of Zion”5:07
- 21.Part I: Recit - “Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Open’d”0:36
- 22.Part I: Air - “He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd”5:51
- 23.Part I: Chorus - “His Yoke Is Easy”2:59
- 24.Part II: Chorus - “Behold the Lamb God”4:06
Disc 2
- 2.Part II: Air - “He Was Despised”5:39
- 3.Part II: Chorus - “Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs”5:32
- 4.Part II: Chorus - “All We, Like Sheep Have Gone Astray”5:14
- 5.Part II: Recit - “All That They See Him to Scorn”0:51
- 6.Part II: Chorus - “He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him”2:24
- 7.Part II: Recit - “Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart”2:07
- 8.Part II: Air - “Behold and See If There Be Any Sorrow”2:15
- 9.Part II: Recit - “He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living”0:26
- 10.Part II: Air - “But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell”2:35
- 11.Part II: Chorus - “Who Is the King of Glory”4:00
- 12.Part II: Chorus - “The Lord Gave the Word”1:37
- 13.Part II: Air - “How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them”3:02
- 14.Part II: Chorus - “Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All the Lands”2:04
- 15.Part II: Air - “Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage”3:05
- 16.Part II: Chorus - “Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder”2:22
- 17.Part II: Recitative - “He That Dwelleth in Heaven”0:17
- 18.Part II: Air - “Thou Shalt Break Them”2:16
- 19.Part II: Chorus - “Hallelujah”5:24
- 20.Part III: Air - “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”7:09
- 21.Part III: Chorus - “Since by Man Came Death”2:32
- 22.Part III: Recit - “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery”0:41
- 23.Part III: Air - “The Trumpet Shall Sound”4:22
- 24.Part III: Chorus - “Worthy Is the Lamb”4:58
- 25.Part III: Chorus - “Amen”4:28
