2x CD
The Messiah
Album by Handel; Elizabeth Harwood, Norma Procter, Alexander Young, John Shirley‐Quirk, Arnold Greir, The Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent
Released 1992
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Part I: OvertureGeorge Frideric Handel5:09
- 2Part I: Recit - “Comfort Ye”George Frideric Handel4:00
- 3Part I: Air - “Every Valley”George Frideric Handel4:16
- 4Part I: Chorus - “And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed”George Frideric Handel3:51
- 5Part I: Recit - “Thus Saith the Lord”George Frideric Handel1:51
- 6Part I: Air - “But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming”George Frideric Handel5:31
- 7Part I: Chorus - “And He Shall Purify”George Frideric Handel3:07
- 8Part I: Recit - “Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive”George Frideric Handel0:32
- 9Part I: Air - “O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion”George Frideric Handel7:12
- 10Part I: Recit - “For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth”George Frideric Handel2:56
- 11Part I: Air - “The People That Walked in the Darkness”George Frideric Handel5:06
- 12Part I: Chorus - “For Unto Us a Child Is Born”George Frideric Handel5:18
- 13Part I: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)George Frideric Handel4:00
- 14Part I: Recit - “There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Fields”George Frideric Handel0:25
- 15Part I: Recit - “And Low the Angel”George Frideric Handel0:29
- 16Part I: Recit - “And the Angel Said Unto Them”George Frideric Handel0:25
- 17Part I: Recit - “For Unto You”George Frideric Handel0:28
- 18Part I: Recit - “And Suddenly There Was With the Angel”George Frideric Handel0:25
- 19Part I: Chorus - “Glory to God”George Frideric Handel2:47
- 20Part I: Air - “Rejoice Greatly O Daughter of Zion”George Frideric Handel5:07
- 21Part I: Recit - “Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Open’d”George Frideric Handel0:36
- 22Part I: Air - “He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd”George Frideric Handel5:51
- 23Part I: Chorus - “His Yoke Is Easy”George Frideric Handel2:59
- 24Part II: Chorus - “Behold the Lamb God”George Frideric Handel4:06
- CD 2
- 1Part II: Air - “He Was Despised”George Frideric Handel5:39
- 2Part II: Chorus - “Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs”George Frideric Handel5:32
- 3Part II: Chorus - “All We, Like Sheep Have Gone Astray”George Frideric Handel5:14
- 4Part II: Recit - “All That They See Him to Scorn”George Frideric Handel0:51
- 5Part II: Chorus - “He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him”George Frideric Handel2:24
- 6Part II: Recit - “Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart”George Frideric Handel2:07
- 7Part II: Air - “Behold and See If There Be Any Sorrow”George Frideric Handel2:15
- 8Part II: Recit - “He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living”George Frideric Handel0:26
- 9Part II: Air - “But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell”George Frideric Handel2:35
- 10Part II: Chorus - “Who Is the King of Glory”George Frideric Handel4:00
- 11Part II: Chorus - “The Lord Gave the Word”George Frideric Handel1:37
- 12Part II: Air - “How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them”George Frideric Handel3:02
- 13Part II: Chorus - “Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All the Lands”George Frideric Handel2:04
- 14Part II: Air - “Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage”George Frideric Handel3:05
- 15Part II: Chorus - “Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder”George Frideric Handel2:22
- 16Part II: Recitative - “He That Dwelleth in Heaven”George Frideric Handel0:17
- 17Part II: Air - “Thou Shalt Break Them”George Frideric Handel2:16
- 18Part II: Chorus - “Hallelujah”George Frideric Handel5:24
- 19Part III: Air - “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”George Frideric Handel7:09
- 20Part III: Chorus - “Since by Man Came Death”George Frideric Handel2:32
- 21Part III: Recit - “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery”George Frideric Handel0:41
- 22Part III: Air - “The Trumpet Shall Sound”George Frideric Handel4:22
- 23Part III: Chorus - “Worthy Is the Lamb”George Frideric Handel4:58
- 24Part III: Chorus - “Amen”George Frideric Handel4:28
More by Handel, Elizabeth Harwood, Norma Procter, Alexander Young, John Shirley‐Quirk, Arnold Greir, The Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent
Release credits
- solo [4, 6-7, 9, 16-17], tenor vocals [1.2-3, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.9, 2.16-17]
- soprano vocals [1.14-16, 1.18, 1.20, 1.22, 2.12, 2.19]
- bass-baritone vocals [2.14, 2.21-22, 1.5-6, 1.10-11]
- contralto vocals [1.8-9, 1.21-22, 2.1]
- choir vocals [2.2-3, 2.5, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18, 2.20, 2.23-24, 1.4, 1.7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.19, 1.23-24]
- performing orchestra
- conductor
Issues
T- G1992
GCassette1992- T2x CD23 June 1994
T2x CD1996
T2x CD1997