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Celebrate Christmas as people around the world have for more than 250 years! This is the 1743 London version of Handel's Messiah, performed by none other than Sir Neville Mariner and the Academy & Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.Format: CD
Oct 1995
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Celebrate Christmas as people around the world have for more than 250 years! This is the 1743 London version of Handel's Messiah, performed by none other than Sir Neville Mariner and the Academy & Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Tracks
1.1 Messiah: No 1 Symphony 1.2 Messiah: Nos 2/3 Recitative ; Air Tenor. Comfort Ye My People... Every Valley Shall Be Exalted 1.3 Messiah: No 4 Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord 1.4 Messiah: Nos 5 - 6 Recitative ; Air Bass: Thus Saith the Lord... But Who May Abide 1.5 Messiah: No 7 Chorus: And He Shall Purify 1.6 Messiah: Nos 8 - 9 Recitative ; Air Alto ; Chorus: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive... O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion 1.7 Messiah: Nos 10-11 Recitative ; Air Bass: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth... The People That Walked in Darkness 1.8 Messiah: No 12 Chorus: For Unto Us a Child Is Born 1.9 Messiah: No 13 Pifa 1.10 Messiah: Nos 14 - 16 Recitative Soprano: There Were Sheperds, Abiding in the Field... And Lo! the Angel of the Lord Come Upon Them... And the Angel Said Unto Them... And Suddenly There Was with the Angel 1.11 Messiah: No 17 Chorus: Glory to God in the Highest 1.12 Messiah: No 18 Air Soprano: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion 1.13 Messiah: Nos 19 - 20 Recitative and Aria Alto: Then Shall the Eyes... He Shall Feed His Flock 1.14 Messiah: No 21 Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy 1.15 Messiah: No 22 Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God 1.16 Messiah: No 23 Air Alto: He Was Despised 2.1 Messiah: No. 24 Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs 2.2 Messiah: No. 25 Chorus: And with His Stripes 2.3 Messiah: No. 26 Chorus: All We Like Sheep 2.4 Messiah: Nos. 27 - 28 Recitative Tenor ; Chorus: All They That See Him... He Trusted in God 2.5 Messiah: Nos. 29 - 30 Recitative ; Arioso Soprano: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart... Behold and See 2.6 Messiah: Nos. 31 - 32 Recitative ; Air Tenor: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living... But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell 2.7 Messiah: No. 33 Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads 2.8 Messiah: Nos. 34 - 35 Recitative Tenor ; Chorus: Unto Which of the Angels... Let All the Angels of God Worship Him 2.9 Messiah: No. 36 Air Bass: Thou Art Gone Up on High 2.10 Messiah: No. 37 Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word 2.11 Messiah: No. 38 Duet Soprano ; Alto, Chorus: How Beatiful Are the Feet... Break Forth Into Joy 2.12 Messiah: No. 39 Arioso Tenor: Their Sound Is Gone Out 2.13 Messiah: Nos. 40 - 41 Air Bass ; Chorus: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together... Let Us Break Their Bonds 2.14 Messiah: Nos. 42 - 43 Recitative ; Air Tenor: He That Dwelleth in Heaven... Thou Shalt Break Them 2.15 Messiah: No. 44 Chorus: Hallelujah 2.16 Messiah: No. 45 Air Soprano: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth 2.17 Messiah: No. 46 Chorus: Since By Man Came Death 2.18 Messiah: Nos. 47 - 48 Recitative ; Air Bass: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery... The Trumpet Shall Sound 2.19 Messiah: No. 49 - 51 Recitative Alto, Duet Alto ; Tenor, Chorus: Then Shall Be Brougt to Pass... O Death, Where Is Thy Sting... But Thanks Be to God 2.20 Messiah: No. 52 Air Alto: If God Be for Us 2.21 Messiah: No. 53 Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb... Amen
Number of Tracks
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