Messiah

Album by George Frideric Handel & Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chicago Symphony Chorus & Sir Georg Solti

Messiah is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, first performed in Dublin in 1742. Scored for choir, soloists and orchestra, it exemplifies Baroque choral writing with recitatives and da capo arias and stands as an important work of Handel's English-period output and of the Baroque oratorio tradition.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Messiah: No. 1 Symphony
    3:05
  2. 2.
    Messiah: No. 2 Recitative: Comfort ye my people / No. 3 Air: Every valley shall be exalted
    6:42
  3. 3.
    Messiah: No. 4 Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
    2:43
  4. 4.
    Messiah: No. 5 Recitative: Thus saith the Lord / No. 6 Air: But who may abide
    5:44
  5. 5.
    Messiah: No. 7 Chorus: And he shall purify
    2:41
  6. 6.
    Messiah: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive / No. 8: Air and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
    6:01
  7. 7.
    Messiah: No. 9 Recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth / No. 10 Air: The people that walked in darkness
    5:46
  8. 8.
    Messiah: No. 11 Chorus: For unto us a child is born
    4:19
  9. 9.
    Messiah: No. 12 Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
    2:54
  10. 10.
    Messiah: Recitative: There were shepherds, abiding in the field / No. 13 Recitative: And lo, the angel of the Lord / Recitative: And the angel said unto them / No. 14 Recitative: And suddenly there was with the angel / No. 15 Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
    3:42
  11. 11.
    Messiah: No. 16 Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion
    4:20
  12. 12.
    Messiah: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind / No. 17 Duet: He shall feed his flock
    5:31
  13. 13.
    Messiah: No. 18 Chorus: His yoke is easy
    2:36
  14. 14.
    Messiah: No. 19 Chorus: Behold the lamb of God
    2:40
  15. 15.
    Messiah: No. 20 Air: He was despised / No. 21 Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs
    11:30

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Messiah: No. 22 Chorus: And with his stripes / No. 23 Chorus: All we like sheep
    5:57
  2. 3.
    Messiah: No. 24 Recitative: All they that see him / No. 25 Chorus: He trusted in God
    2:57
  3. 4.
    Messiah: No. 26 Recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken his heart / No. 27 Arioso: Behold and see if there be any sorrow / No. 28 Recitative: He was cut off out of the land / No. 29 Air: But thou didst not leave his soul in hell
    5:59
  4. 5.
    Messiah: No. 30 Chorus: Lift up your heads / Recitative: Unto which of the angels / No. 31 Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship him
    4:51
  5. 6.
    Messiah: No. 32 Air: Thou art gone up on high
    3:21
  6. 7.
    Messiah: No. 33 Chorus: The Lord gave the word
    1:07
  7. 8.
    Messiah: No. 34a Air: How beautiful are the feet / No. 35a Chorus: Their sound is gone out
    3:39
  8. 9.
    Messiah: No. 36 Air: Why do the nations so furiously rage together? / No. 37 Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder / Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven / No. 38 Air: Thou shalt break them
    6:48
  9. 10.
    Messiah: No. 39 Chorus: Hallelujah
    3:47
  10. 11.
    Messiah: No. 40 Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth
    5:48
  11. 12.
    Messiah: No. 41 Chorus: Since by man came death
    2:07
  12. 13.
    Messiah: No. 42 Recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery / No. 43 Air: The trumpet shall sound
    9:02
  13. 14.
    Messiah: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass / No. 44 Duet: O Death, where is thy sting? / No. 45 Chorus: But thanks be to God
    3:27
  14. 15.
    Messiah: No. 46 Air: If God be for us
    4:48
  15. 16.
    Messiah: No. 47 Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
    6:36

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