Messiah

Album by George Frideric Handel & Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704

Messiah is an English-language oratorio by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741. It is written in the Baroque style and has choral movements, solo vocal sections and orchestral accompaniment, and it comes from the period when Handel shifted his work away from Italian opera toward English oratorio.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    First Part: Symphony
    2:42
  2. 2.
    First Part: Accompagnato (Comfort ye, comfort ye my people)
    2:48
  3. 3.
    First Part: Air (Ev'ry valley shall be exalted)
    3:07
  4. 4.
    First Part: Chorus (And the glory of the Lord)
    2:32
  5. 5.
    First Part: Accompagnato (Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts)
    1:22
  6. 6.
    First Part: Air (But who may abide the day of His coming)
    3:48
  7. 7.
    First Part: Chorus (And He shall purify)
    2:13
  8. 8.
    First Part: Recitative (Behold, a virgin shall conceive)
    0:19
  9. 9.
    First Part: Air (O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion)
    4:52
  10. 10.
    First Part: Accompagnato (For behold, darkness shall cover the earth)
    1:58
  11. 11.
    First Part: Air (The people that walked in darkness)
    3:59
  12. 12.
    First Part: Chorus (For unto us a Child is born)
    3:36
  13. 13.
    First Part: Pifa
    1:57
  14. 14.
    First Part: Recitative (There were shepherds abiding in the field)
    0:12
  15. 15.
    First Part: Accompagnato (And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them)
    0:20
  16. 16.
    First Part: Recitative (And the angel said unto them)
    0:27
  17. 17.
    First Part: Accompagnato (And suddenly there was with the angel)
    0:16
  18. 18.
    First Part: Chorus (Glory to God in the highest)
    1:48
  19. 19.
    First Part: Air (Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion)
    4:04
  20. 20.
    First Part: Recitative (Then shall the eyes of the blind be open'd)
    0:23
  21. 21.
    First Part: Duet (He shall feed His flock like a shepherd)
    3:39
  22. 22.
    First Part: Chorus (His yoke is easy, His burthen is light)
    2:09

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Second Part: Chorus (Behold the Lamb of God)
    2:49
  2. 3.
    Second Part: Air (He was despised)
    9:26
  3. 4.
    Second Part: Chorus (Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows)
    1:41
  4. 5.
    Second Part: Chorus (And with His stripes we are healed)
    1:29
  5. 6.
    Second Part: Chorus (All we like sheep, have gone astray)
    3:43
  6. 7.
    Second Part: Accompagnato (All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn)
    0:38
  7. 8.
    Second Part: Chorus (He trusted in God)
    2:03
  8. 9.
    Second Part: Accompagnato (Thy rebuke hath broken His heart)
    1:50
  9. 10.
    Second Part: Arioso (Behold, and see if there be any sorrow)
    1:29
  10. 11.
    Second Part: Accompagnato (he was cut off out of the land of the living)
    0:16
  11. 12.
    Second Part: Air (But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell)
    2:13
  12. 13.
    Second Part: Chorus (Lift up your heads)
    2:45
  13. 14.
    Second Part: Recitative (Unto which of the angels)
    0:17
  14. 15.
    Second Part: Chorus (Let all the angels of God worship Him)
    1:21
  15. 16.
    Second Part: Air (Thou art gone up on high)
    3:02
  16. 17.
    Second Part: Chorus (The Lord gave the word)
    1:00
  17. 18.
    Second Part: Air (How beautiful are the feet of them)
    4:42
  18. 19.
    Second Part: Air (Why do the nations so furiously rage together)
    2:36
  19. 20.
    Second Part: Chorus (Let us break their bonds asunder)
    1:37
  20. 21.
    Second Part: Recitative (He that dwelleth in heaven)
    0:12
  21. 22.
    Second Part: Air (Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron)
    1:52
  22. 23.
    Second Part: Chorus (Hallelujah)
    3:18
  23. 24.
    Third Part: Air (I know that my Redeemer liveth)
    5:38
  24. 25.
    Third Part: Chorus (Since by man came death)
    2:06
  25. 26.
    Third Part: Accompagnato (Behold, I tell you a mystery)
    0:35
  26. 27.
    Third Part: Air (The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be rais'd)
    7:48
  27. 28.
    Third Part: Recitative (The shall be brought to pass)
    0:15
  28. 29.
    Third Part: Duet / Chorus (O death, where is thy sting? / But thanks be to God)
    3:25
  29. 30.
    Third Part: Air (If God be for us, who can be against us)
    4:26
  30. 31.
    Third Part: Chorus (Worthy is the Lamb that was slain)
    3:29
  31. 32.
    Third Part: Chorus (Amen)
    3:37

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