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Messiah HWV 56

Text: Charles Jennens
Edward Higginbottom, Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of New College Oxford, Toby Spence (Tenor), Eamonn Dougan (Bass), Iestyn Davies (Countertenor), Robert Brooks (Child's Voice), Henry Jenkinson (Child's Voice), Otta Jones (Child's Voice)
℗ 2016

  • Part I

    • Sinfonia
      03:04
    • 1. Accompanied recitative: Comfort ye, my people (Tenor)
      03:13
    • 2. Aria: Every valley shall be exalted (Tenor)
      03:19
    • 3. Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
      02:32
    • 4. Accompanied recitative: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass)
      01:27
    • 5. Aria: But who may abide the day of His coming (Countertenor)
      04:31
    • 6. Chorus: And He shall purify
      02:32
    • 7. Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son (Countertenor)
      00:24
    • 8. Aria and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Countertenor)
      05:43
    • 9. Accompanied recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Bass)
      02:10
    • 10. Aria: The people that walked in darkness (Bass)
      03:35
    • 11. Chorus: For unto us a Child is born
      03:52
    • 12. Pifa
      02:13
    • 13. Accompanied recitative: There were shepherds abiding in the field (Trebles)
      01:28
    • 14. Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
      02:15
    • 15. Aria: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Tenor)
      04:06
    • 16. Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened (Countertenor)
      00:24
    • 17. Aria: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd (Countertenor, Treble)
      04:54
    • 18. Chorus: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light
      02:19

  • Part II

    • 1. Chorus: Behold, the Lamb of God
      02:49
    • 2. Aria: He was despised and rejected of men (Countertenor)
      12:21
    • 3. Chorus: Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
      02:01
    • 4. Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed
      01:55
    • 5. Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray
      03:34
    • 6. Accompanied recitative: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn (Tenor)
      00:42
    • 7. Chorus: He trusted in God that He would deliver Him
      02:21
    • 8. Accompanied recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Tenor)
      01:45
    • 9. Aria: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow (Tenor)
      01:33
    • 10. Accompanied recitative: He was cut off out of the land of the living (Treble)
      00:18
    • 11. Aria: But thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Treble)
      02:00
    • 12. Chorus: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
      03:08
    • 13. Recitative: Unto which of the angels said He at any time (Tenor)
      00:19
    • 14. Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship Him
      01:40
    • 15. Aria: Thou art gone up on high (Countertenor)
      03:10
    • 16. Chorus: The Lord gave the word
      01:12
    • 17. Aria: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace (Treble)
      02:18
    • 18. Chorus: Their sound is gone out into all lands
      01:32
    • 19. Aria: Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Bass)
      02:49
    • 20. Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
      01:53
    • 21. Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn (Tenor)
      00:10
    • 22. Aria: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (Tenor)
      02:17
    • 23. Chorus: Hallelujah
      04:04

  • Part III

    • 1. Aria: I know that my redeemer liveth (Treble)
      05:44
    • 2. Chorus: Since by man came death
      02:05
    • 3. Accompanied recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery (Bass)
      00:36
    • 4. Aria: The trumpet shall sound (Bass)
      08:39
    • 5. Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written (Countertenor)
      00:15
    • 6. Duet: O death, where is thy sting (Countertenor and Tenor)
      01:06
    • 7. Chorus: But thanks be to God
      02:11
    • 8. Aria: If God is for us, who can be against us (Countertenor)
      04:53
    • 9. Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
      03:17
    • 10. Chorus: Amen
      03:35

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