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Messiah HWV 56

Text: Charles Jennens
Stephen Cleobury, Brandenburg Consort, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, John Mark Ainsley (Tenor), Alastair Miles (Bass), Hillary Summers (Alto), Lynne Dawson (Soprano)
1993, Cambridge
53 Tracks, 2:14:24
    • 1. Symphony
      03:03
    • 2. Recitative "Comfort Ye My People"
      02:51
    • 3. Air "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted"
      03:20
    • 4. Chorus "And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed"
      02:52
    • 5. Recitative "Thus Said the Lord of Hosts"
      01:19
    • 6. Air "But Who May Abide"
      04:05
    • 7. Chorus "And He Shall Purify"
      02:30
    • 8. Recitative "Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive"
      00:23
    • 9. Air "O Thou That Tellest"
      05:27
    • 10. Recitative "For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth"
      02:01
    • 11. Air "The People That Walked in Darkness"
      03:17
    • 12. Chorus "For Unto Us a Child Is Born"
      04:05
    • 13. Pifa. Pastoral Symphony
      02:31
    • 14. Recitative "There Were Shepherds"
      00:31
    • 15. Recitative "And the Angel Said Unto Them"
      00:31
    • 16. Recitative "And Suddenly There Was with the Angel"
      00:17
    • 17. Chorus "Glory to God in the Highest"
      01:52
    • 18. Air "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion"
      04:17
    • 19. Recitative "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind"
      00:24
    • 20. Duet "He Shall Feed His Flock"
      04:35
    • 21. Chorus "His Yoke Is Easy"
      02:20
    • 1. Chorus "Behold, the Lamb of God"
      02:22
    • 2. Air "He Was Despised and Rejected of Men"
      09:51
    • 3. Chorus "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs"
      01:43
    • 4. Chorus "And with His Stripes We Are Healed"
      01:47
    • 5. Chorus "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray"
      03:43
    • 6. Recitative "All They That See Him"
      00:40
    • 7. Chorus "He Trusted in God"
      02:19
    • 8. Recitative "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"
      01:48
    • 9. Air "Behold, and See if There Be Any Sorrow"
      01:22
    • 10. Recitative "He Was Cut Off Out of the Land"
      00:17
    • 11. Air "But Thou Didst Not Leave"
      02:20
    • 12. Chorus "Lift Up Your Heads"
      02:58
    • 13. Recitative "Unto Which of the Angels"
      00:19
    • 14. Chorus "Let All the Angels of God Worship Him"
      01:28
    • 15. Air "Thou Art Gone Up on High"
      03:12
    • 16. Chorus "The Lord Gave the Word"
      01:04
    • 17. Air "How Beautiful Are the Feet"
      02:03
    • 18. Chorus "Their Sound Is Gone Out"
      01:30
    • 19. Air "Why Do the Nations?"
      01:26
    • 20 Chorus "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder"
      01:43
    • 21. Recitative "He That Swelleth in Heaven"
      00:12
    • 22. Air "Thou Shalt Break Them"
      01:59
    • 23. Chorus "Hallelujah!"
      03:35
    • 1. Air "I Know That My Redeemer"
      05:48
    • 2. Chorus "Since by Man Came Death"
      02:02
    • 3. Recitative "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery"
      00:34
    • 4. Air "The Trumpet Shall Sound"
      08:31
    • 5. Recitative "Then Shall Be Brought to Pass"
      00:17
    • 6. Duet "O Death, Where is Thy Sting?"
      01:03
    • 7. Chorus "But Thanks Be to God"
      02:02
    • 8. Air "If God Be for Us"
      05:06
    • 9. Chorus "Worthy Is the Lamb... Amen"
      06:49