Messiah

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Sinfonia: Grave

  Handel
  5:17
• 2
  Accompagnato (Tenor): "Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People..."

  Handel
  3:58
• 3
  Air (Tenor): "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted..."

  Handel
  3:30
• 4
  Chorus: "And The Glory Of The Lord..."

  Handel
  2:47
• 5
  Accompagnato (Bass): "Thus Saith The Lord..."

  Handel
  2:00
• 6
  Air (Contralto): "But Who May Abide..."

  Handel
  4:35
• 7
  Chorus: "And He Shall Purify..."

  Handel
  2:04
• 8
  Recitative (Contralto): "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive..."

  Handel
  0:46
• 9
  Air (Contralto And Chorus): "O Thou That Tellest..."

  Handel
  5:22
• 10
  Accompagnato (Bass): "For, Behold, ... Darkness Shall Cover The Earth..."

  Handel
  4:09
• 11
  Air (Bass): "The People That Walked In Darkness..."

  Handel
  4:49
• 12
  Chorus: "For Unto Us A Child Is Born..."

  Handel
  3:25
• 13
  Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

  Handel
  1:57
• 14
  Recitative (Soprano): "There Were ... Shepherds Abiding In The Field..."

  Handel
  0:26
• 15
  Accompagnato (Soprano): "And Lo, The Angel Of The Lord..."

  Handel
  0:54
• 16
  Recitative (Soprano): "And The Angel Said Upon Them..."

  Handel
  1:03
• 17
  Accompagnato (Soprano): "And Suddenly There Was With The Angel..."

  Handel
  0:15
• 18
  Chorus: "Glory To God In The Highest..."

  Handel
  2:15
• 19
  Air (Soprano): "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion..."

  Handel
  4:23
• 20
  Recitative (Soprano): "Then Shall The Eyes...."

  Handel
  0:41
• 21
  Air (Soprano): "He Shall Feed His Flock..."

  Handel
  5:45
• 22
  Chorus: "His Yoke Is Easy..."

  Handel
  2:16
• CD 2
• 1
  Chorus: "Behold, The Lamb Of God..."

  Handel
  4:32
• 2
  Air (Contralto): "He Was Despised..."

  Handel
  9:46
• 3
  Chorus: "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs..."

  Handel
  4:05
• 4
  Chorus: "And With His Stripes We Are Healed"

  Handel
  4:04
• 5
  Chorus: "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray"

  Handel
  5:03
• 6
  Accompagnato (Tenor): "All They That See Him..."

  Handel
  1:25
• 7
  Chorus: "He Trusted In God..."

  Handel
  2:14
• 8
  Accompagnato (Tenor): "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart..."

  Handel
  2:05
• 9
  Arioso (Tenor): "Behold, And See..."

  Handel
  1:40
• 10
  Accompagnato (Tenor): "He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land..."

  Handel
  0:26
• 11
  Air (Tenor): "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul..."

  Handel
  2:53
• 12
  Chorus: "Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates..."

  Handel
  3:26
• 13
  Recitative (Tenor): "Unto Which Of The Angels..."

  Handel
  0:27
• 14
  Chorus: "Let All The Angels Of God Worship Him"

  Handel
  1:23
• 15
  Air (Bass): "Thou Art Gone Up On High..."

  Handel
  5:59
• 16
  Chorus: "The Lord Gave The Word..."

  Handel
  1:00
• 17
  Air (Soprano): "How Beautiful Are The Feet..."

  Handel
  2:29
• 18
  Chorus: Their Sound Is GOne Out

  Handel
  3:07
• 19
  Air (Bass): "Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage..."

  Handel
  2:33
• 20
  Chorus: "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder..."

  Handel
  1:39
• 21
  Recitative (Tenor): "He That Dwelleth In Heaven

  Handel
  0:21
• 22
  Air (Tenor): "Thou Shalt Break Them"

  Handel
  2:07
• 23
  Chorus: "Hallelujah..."

  Handel
  3:21
• CD 3
• 1
  Air (Soprano): "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth..."

  Handel
  10:03
• 2
  Chorus: "Since By Man Came Death..."

  Handel
  2:21
• 3
  Accompagnato (Bass): "Behold, I Tell You A Mystery..."

  Handel
  0:47
• 4
  Air (Bass): "The Trumpet Shall Sound..."

  Handel
  8:55
• 5
  Recitative (Contralto): "Then Shall Be Brought To Pass..."

  Handel
  0:17
• 6
  Duet (Contralto & Tenor): "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?"

  Handel
  0:53
• 7
  Chorus: "But Thanks Be To God..."

  Handel
  2:02
• 8
  Air (Soprano): "If God Be For Us..."

  Handel
  4:48
• 9
  Chorus: "Worthy Is The Lamb..."

  Handel
  10:05

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Händel Variations

Händel Variations 2019

Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo

Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo 2018

Score

Score 2017

Release credits

• Constance Shacklock
  contralto vocals [2.2, 3.5-6, 1.6, 1.8-9], solo [1.6, 1.8-9, 3.5-6, 2.2]
• Frank Herbert
  solo [1.2-3, 2.6, 2.8-11, 2.13, 2.21-22, 3.6], tenor vocals [1.2-3, 3.6, 2.6, 2.8-11, 2.13, 2.21-22]
• Hermann Scherchen
  conductor
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra
• Margaret Ritchie
  solo [2.17, 1.14-17, 1.19-21, 3.1, 3.8], soprano vocals [2.17, 3.1, 3.8, 1.14-17, 1.19-21]
• Michael J. Dutton
  engineer
• Richard Standen
  bass vocals [1.5, 1.10-11, 3.3-4, 2.15, 2.19], solo [1.5, 1.10-11, 2.15, 2.19, 3.3-4]

Issues

• M
  Messiah

  12" Vinyl (1956 LSO)
  1956
• 

  M
  Messiah

  3x CD (1954 London recording, Remastered 1986)
  1986