Messiah

Album by George Frideric Handel & London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir & John Alldis

Messiah is an English-language oratorio by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741 and first performed in 1742. The work combines Baroque choral and orchestral writing with solo arias, recitatives and contrapuntal choral passages, and represents a late-career focus by Handel on the English oratorio form that contributed to the development of subsequent choral traditions.
First released: 12th March 2002

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Overture
    4:05
  2. 2.
    Chorus / Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
    2:12
  3. 3.
    Chorus / And With His Stripes We Are Healed
    2:37
  4. 4.
    Tenor Recitative / Comfort Ye My People
    3:00
  5. 5.
    Tenor Aria / Every Valley Shall Be Exalted
    3:47
  6. 6.
    Chorus / All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
    3:46
  7. 7.
    Chorus / And the Glory of the Lord
    3:05
  8. 8.
    Tenor Recitative / All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn
    0:47
  9. 9.
    Bass Recitative / Thus Saith the Lord
    1:37
  10. 10.
    Chorus / He Trusted In God That He Would Deliver Him
    2:20
  11. 11.
    Tenor Recitative / Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart
    1:50
  12. 12.
    Bass Aria / But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?
    5:07
  13. 13.
    Chorus / And He Shall Purify
    2:42
  14. 14.
    Tenor Arioso / Behold, And See If There Be Any Sorrow
    1:35
  15. 15.
    Tenor Recitative / He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land of the Living
    0:21
  16. 16.
    Contralto Recitative / Behold, A Virgin Shall Concieve
    0:25
  17. 17.
    Contralto Aria and Chorus / Oh Thou that Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
    6:23
  18. 18.
    Tenor Aria / But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell
    2:47
  19. 19.
    Chorus / Live Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
    3:37
  20. 20.
    Bass Recitative / For, Behold, A Darkness Shall Cover the Earth
    2:17
  21. 21.
    Soprano Aria / How Beautiful Are The Feet of Them
    2:45
  22. 22.
    Bass Aria / The People That Walked In Darkness
    4:07
  23. 23.
    Chorus / For Unto Us a Child is Born
    4:33
  24. 24.
    Chorus / Their Sound is Gone Out Into All Lands
    1:55
  25. 25.
    Bass Aria / Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage?
    3:14
  26. 26.
    Pastoral Symphony
    3:38
  27. 27.
    Chorus / Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
    1:51
  28. 28.
    Soprano Recitative / There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field
    0:44
  29. 29.
    Soprano Recitative / And the Angel Said Unto Them
    0:41
  30. 30.
    Tenor Recitative / He That Dwelleth in Heaven
    0:17
  31. 31.
    Soprano Recitative / And Suddenly There Was with the Angel
    0:18
  32. 32.
    Tenor Aria / Thou Shalt Break Them
    2:09
  33. 33.
    Chorus / Glory to God
    2:07
  34. 34.
    Chorus / Hallelujah!
    4:12
  35. 35.
    Soprano Aria / Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
    4:41
  36. 36.
    Soprano Aria / I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
    7:20
  37. 37.
    Chorus / Since By Man Came Death
    2:06
  38. 38.
    Contralto Recitative / Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind be Opened
    0:28
  39. 39.
    Contralto Aria and Soprano Aria / He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd
    6:01
  40. 40.
    Bass Recitative / Behold, I Tell You A Mystery
    0:36
  41. 41.
    Bass Aria / The Trumpet Shall Sound
    4:16
  42. 42.
    Chorus / His Yoke is Easy, And His Burthen is Light
    2:25
  43. 43.
    Chorus / Behold The Lamb of God
    3:21
  44. 44.
    Contralto Recitative / Then Shall Be Brought to Pass
    0:17
  45. 45.
    Contralto Aria / He Was Despised
    4:55
  46. 46.
    Contralto And Tenor Duet / O Death, Where is Thy Sting?
    1:04
  47. 47.
    Chorus / But Thanks Be to God
    2:15
  48. 48.
    Soprano Aria / If God Be For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?
    5:16
  49. 49.
    Chorus / Worthy Is The Lamb
    8:39

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