Messiah

Album by George Frideric Handel & Elly Ameling & Anna Reynolds & Philip Langridge & Gwynne Howell & Sir Neville Marriner

Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, first performed in Dublin in 1742. Musically it exemplifies the Baroque oratorio with its combination of solo arias, recitatives and expansive choral writing, and it was composed during Handel's English period where it occupies a central place among his English oratorios and contributed to the formation of the choral repertoire.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Messiah, Part 1: 1. Symphony
    3:03
  2. 2.
    Messiah, Part 1: 2-3. Recitative & Air "Comfort ye my people... Every valley shall be exalted"
    6:23
  3. 3.
    Messiah, Part 1: 4. Chorus. "And the glory of the Lord"
    2:57
  4. 4.
    Messiah, Part 1: 5-6. Recitative & Air "Thus saith the Lord... But who may abide"
    4:29
  5. 5.
    Messiah, Part 1: 7. Chorus. "And he shall purify"
    2:07
  6. 6.
    Messiah, Part 1: 8-9. Recitative & Air. "Behold, a virgin shall conceive.. "
    6:01
  7. 7.
    Messiah, Part 1: 10-11. Recitative & Air. "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth"
    6:14
  8. 8.
    Messiah, Part 1: 12. Chorus. "For unto us a child is born"
    3:35
  9. 9.
    Messiah, Part 1: 13. Pifa
    2:53
  10. 10.
    Messiah, Part 1: 14-16. Recitative. "There were shepherds.. And the angel came upon them"
    3:10
  11. 11.
    Messiah, Part 1: 17. Chorus. "Glory to God in the highest"
    1:44
  12. 12.
    Messiah, Part 1: 18. Air. "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion"
    4:10
  13. 13.
    Messiah, Part 1: 19-20. Recitative and Aria. "Then... He shall feed his flock"
    4:58
  14. 14.
    Messiah, Part 1: 21. Chorus. "His yoke is easy"
    2:00
  15. 15.
    Messiah, Part 2: 22. Chorus. "Behold the Lamb of God"
    2:58
  16. 16.
    Messiah, Part 2: 23. Air. "He was despised"
    11:16

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Messiah, Part 2: 24. Chorus. "Surely he hath borne our griefs"
    2:07
  2. 3.
    Messiah, Part 2: 25. Chorus. "And with his stripes"
    1:26
  3. 4.
    Messiah, Part 2: 26. Chorus. "All we like sheep"
    3:27
  4. 5.
    Messiah, Part 2: 27-28. Recitative & Chorus. "All they that see him... He trusted in God"
    2:51
  5. 6.
    Messiah, Part 2: 29-30. Recitative & Arioso. "Thy rebuke hath broken his heart"
    3:48
  6. 7.
    Messiah, Part 2: 31-32. Recitative & Air. "He was cut off out of the land of the living"
    2:22
  7. 8.
    Messiah, Part 2: 33. Chorus. "Lift up your heads"
    2:57
  8. 9.
    Messiah, Part 2: 34-35. Recitative & Chorus. "Let all the angels of God worship him"
    1:41
  9. 10.
    Messiah, Part 2: 36. Air. "Thou art gone up on high"
    3:10
  10. 11.
    Messiah, Part 2: 37. Chorus. "The Lord gave the word"
    1:02
  11. 12.
    Messiah, Part 2: 38. Duet. "How beautiful are the feet"
    3:17
  12. 13.
    Messiah, Part 2: 39. Arioso. "Their sound is gone out"
    1:09
  13. 14.
    Messiah, Part 2: 40-41. Air & Chorus. "Why do the nations rate together.. Break their bonds"
    3:07
  14. 15.
    Messiah, Part 2: 42-43. Recitative & Air. "He that dwelleth in heaven"
    2:33
  15. 16.
    Messiah, Part 2: 44. Chorus. "Hallelujah!"
    3:45
  16. 17.
    Messiah, Part 3: 45. Air. "I know that my Redeemer liveth"
    5:13
  17. 18.
    Messiah, Part 3: 46. Chorus. "Since by man came death"
    1:50
  18. 19.
    Messiah, Part 3: 47-48. Recitative & Air. "Behold, I tell you a mystery"
    10:09
  19. 20.
    Messiah, Part 3: 49-51. Recitative, Duet & Chorus. "Then shall be brought to pass"
    4:56
  20. 21.
    Messiah, Part 3: 52. Air. "If God be for us"
    4:39
  21. 22.
    Messiah, Part 3: 53. Chorus. "Worthy is the Lamb... Amen"
    6:35

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