Handel: Messiah
Martin Pearlman & Boston Baroque
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CAT # 80322-25
DISC ONE 1. Handel: Messiah: Sinfonia 2:54 2. Handel: Messiah: Comfort ye, my people - Tenor Recitative 2:48 3. Handel: Messiah: Every valley shall be exhalted - Tenor Air 3:10 4. Handel: Messiah: And the glory of the Lord - Chorus 2:39 5. Handel: Messiah: Thus saith the Lord - Bass Recitative 1:24 6. Handel: Messiah: But who may abide - Alto Air 3:58 7. George Frideric Handel: Messiah: No. 7. "And He shall purify" from Part One 2:09 8. Handel: Messiah: Behold, a virgin shall conceive - Alto Recitative 9. Handel: Messiah: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion - Alto Air & Chorus 5:20 10. Handel: Messiah: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth - Bass Recitative 1:50 11. Handel: Messiah: The people that walked in darkness - Bass Air 4:05 12. Handel: Messiah: For unto us a Child is born - Chorus 3:35 13. Handel: Messiah: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) 2:56 14. Handel: Messiah: There were shepherds - Soprano Recitative / And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon 15. Handel: Messiah: And the angel said unto them - Soprano Recitative 16. Handel: Messiah: And suddenly there was with the angel - Soprano Recitative 17. Handel: Messiah: Glory to God - Chorus 1:44 18. Handel: Messiah: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion - Soprano Air 4:16 19. Handel: Messiah: Then shall the eyes of the blind - Alto Recitative 20. Handel: Messiah: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd - Alto & Soprano Air 4:39 21. Handel: Messiah: His yoke is easy - Chorus 2:20 22. Handel: Messiah: Behold the lamb of God - Chorus 2:27 23. Handel: Messiah: He was despised - Alto Air 8:25 DISC TWO 1. Handel: Messiah: Surely he hath borne our griefs - Chorus 1:48 2. Handel: Messiah: And with His stripes we are healed - Chorus 1:44 3. Handel: Messiah: All we like sheep - Chorus 3:24 4. Handel: Messiah: All they that see him - Tenor Recitative 5. Handel: Messiah: He trusted in God - Chorus 2:16 6. Handel: Messiah: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart - Tenor Recitative 1:31 7. Handel: Messiah: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow - Tenor Arioso 1:13 8. Handel: Messiah: He was cut off out of the land of the living - Tenor Recitative 9. Handel: Messiah: But thou didst not leave his soul in Hell - Tenor Air 2:41 10. Handel: Messiah: Lift up your heads - Chorus 2:57 11. Handel: Messiah: Unto which of the angels - Tenor Recitative 12. Handel: Messiah: Let all the angels of God worship Him - Chorus 1:24 13. Handel: Messiah: Thou art gone up on high - Alto Air 2:53 14. Handel: Messiah: The Lord gave the word - Chorus 1:12 15. Handel: Messiah: How beautiful are the feet - Soprano Air 2:04 16. Handel: Messiah: Their sound is gone out - Chorus 1:21 17. Handel: Messiah: Why do the nations? - Bass Air 2:41 18. Handel: Messiah: Let us break their bonds asunder - Chorus 1:41 19. Handel: Messiah: He that dwelleth in heaven - Tenor Recitative 20. Handel: Messiah: Thou shall break them - Tenor Air 2:05 21. Handel: Messiah: Hallelujah - Chorus 3:40 22. Handel: Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth - Soprano Air 5:03 23. Handel: Messiah: Since by man came death - Chorus 2:04 24. Handel: Messiah: Behold, I tell you a mystery - Bass Recitative 25. Handel: Messiah: The trumpet shall sound - Bass Air 8:41 26. Handel: Messiah: Then shall be brought to pass - Alto Recitative 27. Handel: Messiah: O death, where is thy sting? - Alto & Tenor Duet 1:09 28. Handel: Messiah: But thanks be to God - Chorus 2:08 29. Handel: Messiah: If God be for us - Soprano Air 4:01 30. Handel: Messiah: Worthy is the lamb . . . Amen - Chorus 7:11
Handel's Messiah performed with class and energy by America's premier period instrument ensemble and chorus.
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