Messiah

Album by George Frideric Handel & Ruth Holton & Vanessa Williamson & James Griffett & Lawrence Albert & Gioia della Musica Praha & Brensky akademicky sbor & Mark Brown

Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, first performed in 1742. The work uses Baroque choral and orchestral forces, pairs solo recitative and arias with large choruses, and it came during Handel's mature London period when he wrote several large-scale sacred works.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Part I. "Overture"
    3:37
  2. 2.
    Part I. "Comfort Ye My People"
    2:56
  3. 3.
    Part I. "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
    3:43
  4. 4.
    Part I. "And The Glory Of The Lord"
    2:38
  5. 5.
    Part I. "Thus Saith The Lord"
    1:29
  6. 6.
    Part I. "But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming?"
    4:07
  7. 7.
    Part I. "And He Shall Purify"
    2:29
  8. 8.
    Part I. "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive"
    0:24
  9. 9.
    Part I. "O Thou That Tellest"
    5:55
  10. 10.
    Part I. "For Behold, Darkness"
    2:21
  11. 11.
    Part I. "The People That Walked In Darkness"
    4:01
  12. 12.
    Part I. "For Unto Us A Child Is Born"
    4:18
  13. 13.
    Part I. "Pastoral Symphony - There Were Shepherds"
    3:58
  14. 14.
    Part I. "And Suddenly There Was With The Angel - Glory To God"
    2:27
  15. 15.
    Part I. "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion!"
    4:20
  16. 16.
    Part I. "Then Shall The Eyes Of The Blind"
    0:27
  17. 17.
    Part I. "He Shall Feed His Flock"
    5:18
  18. 18.
    Part I. "His Yoke Is Easy, And His Burden Is Light"
    2:43
  19. 19.
    Part II. "Behold The Lamb Of God"
    3:58
  20. 20.
    Part II. "He Was Despised And Rejected"
    11:29

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Part II. "Surely He Hath Born Our Griefs"
    1:45
  2. 3.
    Part II. "And with His stripes we are healed"
    1:45
  3. 4.
    Part II. "All we like sheep have gone astray"
    3:55
  4. 5.
    Part II. "All they that see Him"
    0:39
  5. 6.
    Part II. "He trusted in God"
    2:41
  6. 7.
    Part II. "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"
    1:47
  7. 8.
    Part II. "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow"
    1:26
  8. 9.
    Part II. "He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land - But Thou Dids't Not Leave His Soul"
    2:40
  9. 10.
    Part II. "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates"
    3:18
  10. 11.
    Part II. "Unto Which Of The Angels - Let All The Angels"
    1:54
  11. 12.
    Part II. "Thou art gone up on high"
    3:18
  12. 13.
    Part II. "The Lord gave the word"
    1:15
  13. 14.
    Part II. "How beautiful are the feet"
    2:20
  14. 15.
    Part II. "Their sound is gone out"
    1:08
  15. 16.
    Part II. "Why do the nations"
    2:48
  16. 17.
    Part II. "Let us break their bonds asunder"
    1:56
  17. 18.
    Part II. "He that dwelleth in heaven / Thou shalt break them"
    2:35
  18. 19.
    Part II. "Hallelujah"
    3:51
  19. 20.
    Part III. "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
    6:17
  20. 21.
    Part III. "Since by man came death"
    2:09
  21. 22.
    Part III. "Behold, I tell you a mystery"
    0:34
  22. 23.
    Part III. "The Trumpet Shall Sound"
    8:57
  23. 24.
    Part III. "Then shall be brought to pass . . . O Death, where is thy sting?"
    3:57
  24. 25.
    Part III. "If God Be For Us"
    4:48
  25. 26.
    Part III. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain"
    3:22
  26. 27.
    Part III. "Amen"
    3:23

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