1GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)
2MESSIAH
3Der Messias - Le Messie HWV 56
4COMPACT DISC 1 [73'52]
5PART ONE - ERSTER TEIL - PREMIČRE PARTIE
61. Sinfony (Grave - Allegro moderato)
72. Accompagnato (Tenor): „Comfort ye my people”
83. Air (Tenor): „Ev'ry valley shall be exalted”
94. Chorus: „And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed”
105. Accompagnato (Bass): „Thus saith the Lord of Hosts”
116. Air (Alto): „But who may abide the day of his coming”
127. Chorus: „And he shall purify the sons of Levi”
138. Recitative (Contralto): „Behold, a virgin shall conceive”
149. Air (Contralto) and Chorus: „O thou that tellest good tidings”
1510. Accompagnato (Bass): „For behold, darkness shall cover”
1611. Aria (Bass): „The people that walked in darkness”
1712. Chorus: „For unto us a Child is born”
1813. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony/Hirtenmusik/Pastorale)
1914. Recitative (Soprano): „There were shepherds abiding in the field”
20Accompagnato (Soprano): „And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them”
21Recitative (Soprano): „And the angel said unto them”
22Accompagnato (Soprano): „And suddenly there was with the angel”
2317. Chorus: „Glory to God in the highest”
2418. Air (Soprano): „Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion”
2519. Recitative (Contralto): „Then shall the eyes of the blind be open'd”
2620. Air (Contralto & Soprano): „He shall feed his flock”
2721. Chorus: „His yoke is easy, his burthen is light”
28PART TWO - ZWEITER TEIL - DEUXIČME PARTIE
2922. Chorus: „Behold the Lamb of God”
3023. Air (Contralto): „He was despised”
31COMPACT DISC 2 [76'14]
3224. Chorus: „Surely, he hath borne our griefs”
3325. Chorus: „And with his stripes we are healed”
3426. Chorus: „All we, like sheep, have gone astray”
3527. Accompagnato (Tenor): „All they that see him”
3628. Chorus: „He trusted in God”
3729. Accompagnato (Tenor): „Thy rebuke hath broken his heart”
3830. Arioso (Tenor): „Behold, and see, if there be any sorrow”
3931. Accompagnato (Soprano): „He was cut off out of the land”
4032. Air (Soprano): „But thou didst not leave his soul”
4133. Chorus: „Lift up your heads, O ye gates”
4233. Recitative (Tenor): „Unto which of the angels”
4335. Chorus: „Let all the angels of God worship him”
4436. Air (Alto): „Thou art gone up on high”
4537. Chorus: „The Lord gave the word”
4638. Air (Soprano): „How beautiful are the feet”
4739. Chorus: „Their sound is gone out”
4840. Air (Bass): „Why do the nations so furiously rage”
4941. Chorus: „Let us break their bonds asunder”
5042. Recitative (Tenor): „He that dwelleth in heaven”
5143. Air (Tenor): „Thou shalt break them”
5244. Chorus: „Hallelujah!”
53PART THREE - DRITTER TEIL - TROISIČME PARTIE
5445. Air (Soprano): „I know that my Redeemer liveth”
5546. Chorus: „Since by man came death”
5647. Recitative (Bass): „Behold, I tell you a mystery”
5748. Air (Bass): „The trumpet shall sound”
5849. Recitative (Alto): „Then shall be brought to pass”
5950. Duet (Alto & Tenor): „O death, where is thy sting?”
6051. Chorus: „But thanks be to God”
6152. Air (Contralto): „If God be for us”
6253. Chorus: „Worthy is the Lamb that was slain - Amen”
63Arleen Auger, soprano
64Anne Sofie von Otter, contralto (Alt)
65Michael Chance, alto (Altus/haute-contre)
66Howard Crook, tenor
67John Tomlinson, bass
68THE ENGLISH CONCERT CHOIR
69THE ENGLISH CONCERT
70TREVOR PINNOCK
