Messiah
Album by Georg Friedrich Händel; Joan Sutherland, Grace Bumbry, Kenneth McKellar, David Ward, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
Released 1991
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Messiah: No. 1 - SymphonyGeorg Friedrich Händel5:10
- 2Messiah: No. 2 Recitative "Comfort ye my people"Georg Friedrich Händel3:37
- 3Messiah: No. 3 - Air "Every valley shall be exalted"Georg Friedrich Händel3:34
- 4Messiah: No. 4 Chorus "And the glory of the Lord"Georg Friedrich Händel3:12
- 5Messiah: No. 5 - Recitative "Ghus saith the Lord"Georg Friedrich Händel2:02
- 6Messiah: No. 6 - Air "But who may abide"Georg Friedrich Händel5:01
- 7Messiah: No. 7 - Chorus "And he shall purify"Georg Friedrich Händel2:45
- 8Messiah: No. 8 Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"/Air "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"Georg Friedrich Händel7:22
- 9Messiah: No. 10 - Recitative "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth"Georg Friedrich Händel2:31
- 10Messiah: No. 11 - Air "The people that walked in darkness"Georg Friedrich Händel4:49
- 11Messiah: No. 12 - Chorus "For unto us a child is born"Georg Friedrich Händel4:30
- 12Messiah: No. 13 PifaGeorg Friedrich Händel3:39
- 13Messiah: No. 14 - 16 Recitative "there were shepherds.." "And lo the angel..." " And suddenly there was.."Georg Friedrich Händel2:04
- 14Messiah: No. 17 - Chorus "Glory to God in the highest"Georg Friedrich Händel2:10
- 15Messiah: No. 18 - Air "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion"Georg Friedrich Händel4:40
- 16Messiah: No. 19 - 20 - Recitative and Duet " Then shall the eyes..He shall feed his floch"Georg Friedrich Händel6:46
- 17Messiah: No. 21 - Chorus "His yoke is easy"Georg Friedrich Händel2:37
- CD 2
- 1Messiah: No. 22 - Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God"Georg Friedrich Händel3:41
- 2Messiah: No. 23 - Air "He was despised"Georg Friedrich Händel12:23
- 3Messiah: No. 24 - Chorus "Surely he hath borne our griefs"Georg Friedrich Händel2:29
- 4Messiah: No. 25 - Chorus "And with his stripes"Georg Friedrich Händel2:34
- 5Messiah: No. 26 - Chorus "All we like sheep"Georg Friedrich Händel4:24
- 6Messiah: No. 27/28 - Recitative & Chorus "All they that see him.. He trusted in God"Georg Friedrich Händel3:14
- 7Messiah: No. 29 - Recitative "Thy rebuke hath broken his heart"Georg Friedrich Händel2:24
- 8Messiah: No. 30 - Arioso "Behold and see"Georg Friedrich Händel1:47
- 9Messiah: No. 31/32 - Recitative and Air "He was cut off..But thour didst not leave"Georg Friedrich Händel2:58
- 10Messiah: No. 33 - Chorus "lift up your heads"Georg Friedrich Händel3:30
- 11Messiah: No 34/35 - Recitative & Chorus "unto which of the angels...Let all the angels of God"Georg Friedrich Händel2:08
- 12Messiah: No. 36 - Air "Thou art gone up on high"Georg Friedrich Händel3:03
- 13Messiah: No. 37 - Chorus "The Lord gave the word"Georg Friedrich Händel1:47
- 14Messiah: No. 38 - Air "How beauriful are the feet"Georg Friedrich Händel2:39
- 15Messiah: No. 39 - Chorus "Their sound is gone out"Georg Friedrich Händel1:43
- 16Messiah: No. 40 - Air "Why do the nations"Georg Friedrich Händel2:53
- 17Messiah: No. 41 - Chorus "Let us break their bonds"Georg Friedrich Händel1:50
- 18Messiah: No. 42/43 Recitative & Air "He that dwelleth in heaven..Thou shalt break them"Georg Friedrich Händel2:26
- 19Messiah: No. 44 - Chorus "Hallelujah"Georg Friedrich Händel4:413.0 ★
- CD 3
- 1Messiah: No 45 Air "I know that my Redeemer liveth"Georg Friedrich Händel7:10
- 2Messiah: No 46 Chorus "Since by man came death"Georg Friedrich Händel2:20
- 3Messiah: No 47-48 Recitative & Air "Behold, I tell you a mystery...The trumpet shall sound"Georg Friedrich Händel9:10
- 4Messiah: No 49-51 Recitative, Duet & Chorus "Then shall be brought to pass...O Death...But thanks be"Georg Friedrich Händel4:30
- 5Messiah: No 52 Air "If God be for us"Georg Friedrich Händel4:51
- 6Messiah: No 53 Chorus "Worthy is the Lamb"Georg Friedrich Händel9:29
- 7Jephtha: Aria "Deeper, and deeper still"Georg Friedrich Händel8:38
- 8Judas Maccabaeus: Aria "Thanks to my brethren"Georg Friedrich Händel7:23
- 9Judas Maccabaeus: Aria "My arms!"Georg Friedrich Händel4:02
- 10Samson: Aria "With plaintive note and am'rous moan"Georg Friedrich Händel5:13
- 11Samson: Aria "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row"Georg Friedrich Händel5:54
More by Georg Friedrich Händel, Joan Sutherland, Grace Bumbry, Kenneth McKellar, David Ward, London Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Sir Adrian Boult
Release credits
- trumpet [19]
- bass vocals [1.5-6, 1.9-10, 2.12, 2.16, 3.3], solo [1.5-6, 1.9-10, 3.3, 2.12, 2.16]
- contralto vocals [2.2, 3.4, 1.8, 1.16], solo [2.2, 1.8, 1.16, 3.4]
- producer [1.15, 2.19]
- solo [3.1, 3.5, 1.13, 1.15-16, 2.7-8, 2.14], soprano vocals [3.1, 3.5, 2.7-8, 2.14, 1.13, 1.15, 1.15-16]
- solo [1.2-3, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11, 2.18, 3.4], tenor vocals [1.2-3, 2.6, 2.9, 2.11, 2.18, 3.4]
- engineer [1.15, 2.19]
- choir vocals [3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 1.4, 1.7-8, 1.11, 1.14-15, 1.17, 2.1, 2.3-6, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.17, 2.19]
- performing orchestra
- organ [19]
- conductor
