Artist: Edward Higginbottom

Title: Messiah

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2006

Label: Naxos

UPC: 747313013173

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. Sinfonia
2. Accompanied Recitative: Comfort Ye, My People (Tenor)
3. Aria: Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Tenor)
4. Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord
5. Accompanied Recitative: Thus Saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass)
6. Aria: But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming (Countertenor)
7. Chorus: And He Shall Purify
8. Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive, and Bear a Son (Countertenor)
9. Aria (Countertenor) and Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings of Zion
10. Accompanied Recitative: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth (Bass)
11. Aria: The People That Walked in Darkness (Bass)
12. Chorus: For Unto Us a Child Is Born
13. Pifa
14. Accompanied Recitative: There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field (Trebles: Henry Jenkinson and Robert Brooks)
15. Chorus: Glory to God in the Highest
16. Aria: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (Tenor)
17. Recitative: Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Opened (Countertenor)
18. Aria: He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd (Countertenor; Treble: Otta Jones)
19. Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy, His Burthen Is Light
20. Chorus: Behold, the Lamb of God
21. Aria: He Was Despised and Rejected of Men (Countertenor)

DISC 2:
1. Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs and Carried Our Sorrows
2. Chorus: And with His Stripes We Are Healed
3. Chorus: All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
4. Accompanied Recitative: All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn (Tenor)
5. Chorus: He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him
6. Accompanied Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor)
7. Aria: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor)
8. Accompanied Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
9. Aria: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
10. Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
11. Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time (Tenor)
12. Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him
13. Aria: Thou Art Gone Up on High (Countertenor)
14. Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word
15. Aria: How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them That Preach the Gospel of Peace (Treble: Otta Jones)
16. Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands
17. Aria: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together (Bass)
18. Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
19. Recitative: He That Dwelleth in Heaven Shall Laugh Them to Scorn (Tenor)
20. Aria: Thou Shalt Break Them with a Rod of Iron (Tenor)
21. Chorus: Hallelujah
22. Aria: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
23. Chorus: Since By Man Came Death
24. Accompanied Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery (Bass)
25. Aria: The Trumpet Shall Sound (Bass) (Trumpet: David Blackadder)
26. Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass the Saying That Is Written (Countertenor)
27. Duet: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting (Countertenor and Tenor)
28. Chorus: But Thanks Be to God
29. Aria: If God Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us (Countertenor)
30. Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain
31. Chorus: Amen

Handel' most popular and joyous oratorio, a work of unfailing melodic invention and dramatic expressiveness, has become almost a British national institution, regularly performed by all manner of choirs and orchestras.