Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Messiah: Sinfonia
    3:08
  • 2
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-TENOR: Comfort ye my people
    3:48
  • 3
    Messiah: AIR-TENOR: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted
    3:56
  • 4
    Messiah: CHORUS: And the glory, the glory of the Lord
    2:37
  • 5
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-BASS: Thus saith the Lord
    1:29
  • 6
    Messiah: AIR-BASS: But who may abide
    4:37
  • 7
    Messiah: CHORUS: And He shall purify
    2:52
  • 8
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-ALTO: Behold, a virgin shall conceive
    0:31
  • 9
    Messiah: AIR-ALTO & CHORUS: O thou that tellest
    6:14
  • 10
    Messiah: RECITATIVE/BASS: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
    1:38
  • 11
    Messiah: AIR-BASS: The people that walked in darkness
    4:25
  • 12
    Messiah: CHORUS: For unto us a child is born
    4:13
  • 13
    Messiah: PIFA: Pastoral Symphony
    3:42
  • 14
    Messiah: RECITATIVES-SOPRANO: There were shepherds; And lo, the Angel of the Lord
    0:47
  • 15
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-SOPRANO: And the angel said unto them
    0:37
  • 16
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-SOPRANO: And suddenly there was with the angel
    0:20
  • 17
    Messiah: CHORUS: Glory to God in the highest
    1:40
  • 18
    Messiah: AIR-SOPRANO: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion
    5:03
  • 19
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-ALTO: Then shall the eyes of the blind
    0:34
  • 20
    Messiah: DUET-ALTO & SOPRANO: And he shall feed his flock
    5:46
  • 21
    Messiah: CHORUS: His yoke is easy
    2:49
  • 22
    Messiah: CHORUS: Behold the Lamb of God
    3:01
  • 23
    Messiah: AIR-ALTO: He was despised
    10:54
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Messiah: CHORUS: Surely, he hath borne our griefs
    3:15
  • 2
    Messiah: CHORUS: And with His stripes we are healed
    1:39
  • 3
    Messiah: CHORUS: All we like sheep
    3:30
  • 4
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-TENOR: All they that see Him
    0:45
  • 5
    Messiah: CHORUS: He trusted in God
    2:02
  • 6
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-TENOR: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
    1:54
  • 7
    Messiah: AIR-TENOR: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
    1:45
  • 8
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-TENOR: He was cut off out of the land
    0:23
  • 9
    Messiah: AIR-TENOR: But thou didst not leave
    2:38
  • 10
    Messiah: CHORUS: Lift up your heads
    3:13
  • 11
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-TENOR: Unto which of the angels
    0:19
  • 12
    Messiah: CHORUS: Let all the angels of God worship him
    1:17
  • 13
    Messiah: AIR-ALTO: Thou art gone up on high
    3:20
  • 14
    Messiah: CHORUS: The Lord gave the word
    1:08
  • 15
    Messiah: AIR-SOPRANO: How beautiful are the feet
    3:01
  • 16
    Messiah: CHORUS: Their sound is gone out
    1:14
  • 17
    Messiah: AIR-BASS: Why do the nations?
    2:58
  • 18
    Messiah: CHORUS: Let us break their bonds asunder
    1:52
  • 19
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-TENOR: He that dwelleth in heaven
    0:16
  • 20
    Messiah: AIR-TENOR: Thou shalt break them
    2:16
  • 21
    Messiah: CHORUS: Hallelujah
    3:37
  • 22
    Messiah: AIR-SOPRANO: I know that my redeemer liveth
    7:18
  • 23
    Messiah: CHORUS: Since by man came death
    1:59
  • 24
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-BASS: Behold, I tell you a mystery
    0:42
  • 25
    Messiah: AIR-BASS: The trumpet shall sound
    8:44
  • 26
    Messiah: RECITATIVE-ALTO: Then shall be brought to pass
    0:19
  • 27
    Messiah: DUET-ALTO & TENOR: O death, where is thy sting?
    1:10
  • 28
    Messiah: CHORUS: But thanks be to God
    2:25
  • 29
    Messiah: AIR-SOPRANO: If God be for us
    5:29
  • 30
    Messiah: CHORUS: Worthy is the Lamb…Amen
    6:42

More by George Frideric Handel

Release credits

  • solo [1.2-3, 2.4, 2.6-9, 2.11, 2.19-20, 2.27], tenor vocals [1.2, 1.2-3, 1.3, 2.4, 2.6-9, 2.11, 2.19-21, 2.27, 2.30]
  • choir vocals [1.1-4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.16-18, 1.21-23, 2.1-3, 2.5, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.21-23, 2.28, 2.30]
  • engineer [2.2, 2.4-13, 2.15-16, 2.18-20, 2.23-29, 1.4-11, 1.14-15, 1.19-22], recording [1.1-3, 1.12-13, 1.16-18, 1.23, 2.1, 2.3, 2.14, 2.17, 2.21-22, 2.30]
  • harpsichord [1.1-3, 1.12-13, 1.16-18, 1.23, 2.1, 2.3, 2.14, 2.17, 2.21, 2.21-22, 2.30], organ [1.1-3, 1.12-13, 1.16-18, 1.23, 2.1, 2.3, 2.14, 2.17, 2.21, 2.21-22, 2.30]
  • performing orchestra
  • conductor
  • bass vocals [1.5-6, 1.10-11, 2.17, 2.21, 2.24-25, 2.30], solo [2.17, 2.24-25, 1.5-6, 1.10-11]
  • solo [1.14-16, 1.18, 1.20, 2.15, 2.22, 2.29], soprano vocals [2.15, 2.21-22, 2.22, 2.29-30, 1.14-16, 1.16, 1.18, 1.20]
  • producer
  • alto vocals [2.13, 2.26-27, 1.8-9, 1.19-20, 1.23], contralto vocals [21, 30], solo [1.8-9, 1.19-20, 1.23, 2.13, 2.26-27]

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