Handel / Smart / Towers / Hart-davis / Boughton - Messiah - Music CD

Track Listing

1.1 Sinfonia (Overture): Grave
1.2 Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro Moderato
1.3 Recitative: Comfort Ye My People
1.4 Aria Tenor: Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted
1.5 Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord
1.6 Recitative: Thus Saith the Lord
1.7 Aria Counter-Tenor: But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?
1.8 Chorus: And He Shall Purify
1.9 Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive
1.10 Aria Counter-Tenor: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
1.11 Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
1.12 Recitative: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth
1.13 Aria Baritone: The People That Walked in Darkness
1.14 Chorus: For Unto Us a Child Is Born
1.15 Pifa ('Pastoral Symphony')
1.16 Recitative: There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field
1.17 Recitative: And Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them
1.18 Recitative: And the Angel Said Unto Them
1.19 Recitiative: And Suddenly There Was with the Angel
1.20 Chorus: Glory to God
1.21 Aria Soprano: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
1.22 Recitative: Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind
1.23 Aria Counter-Tenor ; Soprano: He Shall Feed His Flock
1.24 Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy, and His Burthen Is Light
1.25 Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
1.26 Aria Counter-Tenor: He Was Despised
2.1 Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
2.2 Chorus: And with His Stripes We Are Healed
2.3 Chorus: And We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
2.4 Recitative: All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn
2.5 Chorus: He Trusted in God
2.6 Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart
2.7 Aria Soprano: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow
2.8 Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living
2.9 Aria Tenor: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell
2.10 Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
2.11 Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time
2.12 Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him
2.13 Aria Counter-Tenor: Thou Art Gone Up on High
2.14 Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word
2.15 Aria Soprano: How Beautiful Are the Feet
2.16 Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out
2.17 Aria Baritone: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?
2.18 Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
2.19 Recitative: He That Dwelleth in Heaven
2.20 Aria Tenor: Thou Shalt Break Them
2.21 Chorus: Hallelujah
2.22 Aria Soprano: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
2.23 Chorus: Since By Man Came Death
2.24 Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery
2.25 Aria Baritone: The Trumpet Shall Sound
2.26 Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass
2.27 Duet Counter-Tenor ; Tenor: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
2.28 Chorus: But Thanks Be to God
2.29 Aria Soprano: If God Be for Us
2.30 Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain
2.31 Chorus: Amen