Tracklist

  • Hybrid SACD 1
  • 1
    Messiah: Overture (Sinfony). Grave - Allegro moderato
    George Frideric Handel
    3:28
  • 2
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Tenor: 'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people'. Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    2:33
  • 3
    Messiah: Air. Tenor: 'Ev'ry valley shall be exalted'. Andante
    George Frideric Handel
    3:21
  • 4
    Messiah: Chorus: 'And the Flory of the Lord shall be revealed'. Allegro giocoso - Adagio
    George Frideric Handel
    2:35
  • 5
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Bass: 'Thus saith the Lord'. Solenne
    George Frideric Handel
    1:31
  • 6
    Messiah: Air. Mezzo-soprano: 'But who may abide the day of his coming!'. Larghetto - Prestissimo - Larghetto - Prestissimo - Adagio
    George Frideric Handel
    4:01
  • 7
    Messiah: Chorus: 'And He shall purify the sons of Levi'
    George Frideric Handel
    2:31
  • 8
    Messiah: Recitative. Mezzo-soprano: 'Behold! A virgin shall conceive'
    George Frideric Handel
    0:29
  • 9
    Messiah: Air. Mezzo-soprano and Chorus: 'O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion'. Andante
    George Frideric Handel
    5:07
  • 10
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Bass: 'For behold, darkness shall cover the earth'. Andante larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    2:20
  • 11
    Messiah: Air. Bass: 'The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light'. Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    3:09
  • 12
    Messiah: Chorus: 'For unto us a Child is born'. Andante allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    4:04
  • 13
    Messiah: Pastoral Symphony (Pifa). Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    0:53
  • 14
    Messiah: Recitative. Soprano: ;There were shepherds abiding in the field'.
    George Frideric Handel
    0:14
  • 15
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Soprano: 'And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them'. Andante
    George Frideric Handel
    0:21
  • 16
    Messiah: Recitative. Soprano: 'And the angel said unto them'
    George Frideric Handel
    0:38
  • 17
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Soprano: 'And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude...'. Allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    0:18
  • 18
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Glory to God in the highest'. L'istesso tempo
    George Frideric Handel
    2:04
  • 19
    Messiah: Air. Soprano: 'Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion'. Allegro - Meno mosso - Tempo I - [ ] - Tempo I
    George Frideric Handel
    4:45
  • 20
    Messiah: Recitative. Mezzo-soprano: 'Then shall the eyes of the blind be open'd'
    George Frideric Handel
    0:28
  • 21
    Messiah: Duet. Mezzo-soprano and Soprano: 'He shall feed His flock like a shepherd'. Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    5:21
  • 22
    Messiah: Chorus: 'His yoke is easy'. Not too fast and with lots of bounce!
    George Frideric Handel
    2:26
  • Hybrid SACD 2
  • 1
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Behold the Lamb of God'. Largo
    George Frideric Handel
    2:57
  • 2
    Messiah: Air. Mezzo-soprano: 'He was despised and rejected of men'. Largo
    George Frideric Handel
    5:11
  • 3
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows'. Largo e staccato
    George Frideric Handel
    1:54
  • 4
    Messiah: Chorus: 'And with His stripes we are healed'. Alle breve moderato
    George Frideric Handel
    1:49
  • 5
    Messiah: Chorus: 'All we like sheep have gone astray'. Allegro moderato - Adagio
    George Frideric Handel
    3:56
  • 6
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Tenor: 'All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn'. Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    0:43
  • 7
    Messiah: Chorus: 'He trusted in God that He would deliver Him'. Allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    2:20
  • 8
    Messiah: Accompagnato. 'Tenor: 'Thy rebuke hath broken His Heart'. Largo
    George Frideric Handel
    1:42
  • 9
    Messiah: Arioso. Tenor: 'Behold, and see if there by any sorrow like unto His sorrow'. Largo e piano
    George Frideric Handel
    1:16
  • 10
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Tenor: 'He was cut off out of the land of the living'
    George Frideric Handel
    0:16
  • 11
    Messiah: Air. Tenor: 'But thou didst not leave His soul in Hell'. Andante larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    2:07
  • 12
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Lift up your heads, O ye gates'. A tempo ordinario
    George Frideric Handel
    3:13
  • 13
    Messiah: Chorus: 'The Lord gave the word'. Andante allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    1:00
  • 14
    Messiah: Air. Soprano: 'How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace'. Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    2:07
  • 15
    Messiah: Air. Bass: 'Who do the nations so furiously rage together'. Allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    2:52
  • 16
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Let us break their bonds asunder'. Allegro e staccato
    George Frideric Handel
    1:48
  • 17
    Messiah: Recitative. Tenor: 'He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn' -
    George Frideric Handel
    0:15
  • 18
    Messiah: Air. Tenor: 'Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron'. Andante
    George Frideric Handel
    1:55
  • 19
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Hallelujah!'. Allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    3:58
  • 20
    Messiah: Air. Soprano: 'I know that my Redeemer liveth'. Larghetto
    George Frideric Handel
    6:16
  • 21
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Since by man came death'. Grave - Allegro - Grave - Allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    2:07
  • 22
    Messiah: Accompagnato. Bass: 'Behold, I tell you a mystery'
    George Frideric Handel
    0:35
  • 23
    Messiah: Air. Bass: 'The trumpet shall sound'. Pomposo, ma non allegro
    George Frideric Handel
    4:10
  • 24
    Messiah: Chorus: 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain'. Largo - Larghetto - Allegro moderato
    George Frideric Handel
    7:00

More by Handel, Erin Wall, Elizabeth DeShong, Andrew Staples, John Relyea, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

Release credits

Issues

  • Messiah
    M
    2x Hybrid SACD
    November 2016