12" Vinyl (1956 LSO)

Messiah

Album by Handel; London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Hermann Scherchen

Released 1956

baroque classical

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1
MESSIAH, HWV 56 - [Record 1. Side A] - PART I. Sinfonia
Handel
5:18
2
[Record 1. Side A] - Accompagnato: 'Comfort ye my people'
Handel
3:58
3
[Record 1. Side A] - Air: 'Ev'ry valley shall be exalted'
Handel
3:30
4
[Record 1. Side A] - Chorus: 'And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed'
Handel
2:46
5
[Record 1. Side A] - Accompagnato: 'Thus saith the Lord of Hosts'
Handel
1:59
6
[Record 1. Side A] - Air: 'But who may abide the day of His coming'
Handel
4:34
7
[Record 1. Side A] - Chorus: 'And He shall purify'
Handel
2:04
8
[Record 1. Side A] - Recitative: 'Behold, a Virgin shall conceive'
Handel
0:45
9
[Record 1. Side A] - Chorus: 'O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion'
Handel
5:22
10
[Record 1. Side B] - Recitative: 'For behold, darkness shall cover the earth'
Handel
4:08
11
[Record 1. Side B] - Air: 'The people that walked in darkness'
Handel
4:49
12
[Record 1. Side B] - Chorus: 'For unto us a child is born'
Handel
3:27
13
[Record 1. Side B] - Pastoral Symphony 'Pifa'
Handel
1:56
14
[Record 1. Side B] - Recitative: 'There were shepherds'
Handel
0:25
15
[Record 1. Side B] - Accompagnato: 'And lo, the angel of the Lord'
Handel
0:54
16
[Record 1. Side B] - Recitative: 'And the angel said unto them'
Handel
1:02
17
[Record 1. Side B] - Accompagnato: 'And suddenly there was with the angel'
Handel
0:14
18
[Record 1. Side B] - Chorus: 'Glory to God in the highest'
Handel
2:15
19
[Record 1. Side B] - Air: 'Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion'
Handel
4:23
20
[Record 2. Side A] - PART II. Chorus: 'Behold the Lamb of God'
Handel
4:32
21
[Record 2. Side A] - Air: 'He was despised and rejected'
Handel
9:45
22
[Record 2. Side A] - Chorus: 'Surely, He hath borne our griefs'
Handel
4:05
23
[Record 2. Side A] - Chorus: 'With His stripes we are healed'
Handel
4:03
24
[Record 2. Side A] - Chorus: 'All we like sheep have gone astray'
Handel
5:03
25
[Record 2. Side B] - Accompagnato: 'All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn'
Handel
1:25
26
[Record 2. Side B] - Chorus: 'He trusted in God'
Handel
2:13
27
[Record 2. Side B] - Accompagnato: 'Thy rebuke hath broken His heart'
Handel
2:04
28
[Record 2. Side B] - Arioso: 'Behold and see, if there is any sorrow'
Handel
1:40
29
[Record 2. Side B] - Accompagnato: 'He was cut off out of the land'
Handel
0:25
30
[Record 2. Side B] - Air: 'But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell'
Handel
2:53
31
[Record 2. Side B] - Chorus: 'Lift up your heads'
Handel
3:26
32
[Record 2. Side B] - Recitative: 'Unto which of the angels'
Handel
0:26
33
[Record 2. Side B] - Chorus: 'Let all the angels of God worship Him'
Handel
1:23
34
[Record 2. Side B] - Air: 'Thou art gone up on high'
Handel
5:59
35
[Record 2. Side B] - Chorus: 'The Lord gave the word'
Handel
1:00
36
[Record 2. Side B] - Air: 'How beautiful are the feet'
Handel
2:29
37
[Record 2. Side B] - Chorus: 'Their sound is gone out'
Handel
3:06
38
[Record 3. Side A] - Aria: 'Why do the nations so furiously rage together'
Handel
2:33
39
[Record 3. Side A] - PART III. Air: 'I know that my Redeemer liveth'
Handel
10:03
40
[Record 3. Side A] - Chorus: 'Since by man came death'
Handel
2:20
41
[Record 3. Side B] - Accompagnato: 'Behold, I tell you a mystery'
Handel
0:46
42
[Record 3. Side B] - Air: 'The trumpet shall sound'
Handel
8:55
43
[Record 3. Side B] - Recitative: 'Then shall be brought to pass'
Handel
0:16
44
[Record 3. Side B] - Duet: 'O death, where is thy sting?'
Handel
0:53
45
[Record 3. Side B] - Chorus: 'But thanks be to God'
Handel
2:01
46
[Record 3. Side B] - Air: 'If God be for us, who can be against us?'
Handel
7:48
47
[Record 3. Side B] - Chorus: 'Worthy is Lamb that was slain'
Handel
10:04