Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Messiah: No. 1 - Symphony
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    5:10
  • 2
    Messiah: No. 2 Recitative "Comfort ye my people"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:37
  • 3
    Messiah: No. 3 - Air "Every valley shall be exalted"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:34
  • 4
    Messiah: No. 4 Chorus "And the glory of the Lord"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:12
  • 5
    Messiah: No. 5 - Recitative "Ghus saith the Lord"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:02
  • 6
    Messiah: No. 6 - Air "But who may abide"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    5:01
  • 7
    Messiah: No. 7 - Chorus "And he shall purify"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:45
  • 8
    Messiah: No. 8 Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"/Air "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    7:22
  • 9
    Messiah: No. 10 - Recitative "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:31
  • 10
    Messiah: No. 11 - Air "The people that walked in darkness"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:49
  • 11
    Messiah: No. 12 - Chorus "For unto us a child is born"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:30
  • 12
    Messiah: No. 13 Pifa
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:39
  • 13
    Messiah: No. 14 - 16 Recitative "there were shepherds.." "And lo the angel..." " And suddenly there was.."
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:04
  • 14
    Messiah: No. 17 - Chorus "Glory to God in the highest"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:10
  • 15
    Messiah: No. 18 - Air "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:40
  • 16
    Messiah: No. 19 - 20 - Recitative and Duet " Then shall the eyes..He shall feed his floch"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    6:46
  • 17
    Messiah: No. 21 - Chorus "His yoke is easy"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:37
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Messiah: No. 22 - Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:41
  • 2
    Messiah: No. 23 - Air "He was despised"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    12:23
  • 3
    Messiah: No. 24 - Chorus "Surely he hath borne our griefs"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:29
  • 4
    Messiah: No. 25 - Chorus "And with his stripes"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:34
  • 5
    Messiah: No. 26 - Chorus "All we like sheep"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:24
  • 6
    Messiah: No. 27/28 - Recitative & Chorus "All they that see him.. He trusted in God"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:14
  • 7
    Messiah: No. 29 - Recitative "Thy rebuke hath broken his heart"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:24
  • 8
    Messiah: No. 30 - Arioso "Behold and see"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:47
  • 9
    Messiah: No. 31/32 - Recitative and Air "He was cut off..But thour didst not leave"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:58
  • 10
    Messiah: No. 33 - Chorus "lift up your heads"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:30
  • 11
    Messiah: No 34/35 - Recitative & Chorus "unto which of the angels...Let all the angels of God"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:08
  • 12
    Messiah: No. 36 - Air "Thou art gone up on high"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    3:03
  • 13
    Messiah: No. 37 - Chorus "The Lord gave the word"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:47
  • 14
    Messiah: No. 38 - Air "How beauriful are the feet"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:39
  • 15
    Messiah: No. 39 - Chorus "Their sound is gone out"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:43
  • 16
    Messiah: No. 40 - Air "Why do the nations"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:53
  • 17
    Messiah: No. 41 - Chorus "Let us break their bonds"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    1:50
  • 18
    Messiah: No. 42/43 Recitative & Air "He that dwelleth in heaven..Thou shalt break them"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:26
  • 19
    Messiah: No. 44 - Chorus "Hallelujah"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:41
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Messiah: No 45 Air "I know that my Redeemer liveth"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    7:10
  • 2
    Messiah: No 46 Chorus "Since by man came death"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    2:20
  • 3
    Messiah: No 47-48 Recitative & Air "Behold, I tell you a mystery...The trumpet shall sound"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    9:10
  • 4
    Messiah: No 49-51 Recitative, Duet & Chorus "Then shall be brought to pass...O Death...But thanks be"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:30
  • 5
    Messiah: No 52 Air "If God be for us"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:51
  • 6
    Messiah: No 53 Chorus "Worthy is the Lamb"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    9:29
  • 7
    Jephtha: Aria "Deeper, and deeper still"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    8:38
  • 8
    Judas Maccabaeus: Aria "Thanks to my brethren"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    7:23
  • 9
    Judas Maccabaeus: Aria "My arms!"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    4:02
  • 10
    Samson: Aria "With plaintive note and am'rous moan"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    5:13
  • 11
    Samson: Aria "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row"
    Georg Friedrich Händel
    5:54

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