The Messiah

by George Frideric Handel; Elizabeth Harwood, Norma Procter, Alexander Young, John Shirley‐Quirk, Arnold Greir, Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Part I: Overture5:09
  2. Part I: Recit - “Comfort Ye”4:00
  3. Part I: Air - “Every Valley”4:16
  4. Part I: Chorus - “And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed”3:51
  5. Part I: Recit - “Thus Saith the Lord”1:51
  6. Part I: Air - “But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming”5:31
  7. Part I: Chorus - “And He Shall Purify”3:07
  8. Part I: Recit - “Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive”0:32
  9. Part I: Air - “O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion”7:12
  10. Part I: Recit - “For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth”2:56
  11. Part I: Air - “The People That Walked in the Darkness”5:06
  12. Part I: Chorus - “For Unto Us a Child Is Born”5:18
  13. Part I: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)4:00
  14. Part I: Recit - “There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Fields”0:25
  15. Part I: Recit - “And Low the Angel”0:29
  16. Part I: Recit - “And the Angel Said Unto Them”0:25
  17. Part I: Recit - “For Unto You”0:28
  18. Part I: Recit - “And Suddenly There Was With the Angel”0:25
  19. Part I: Chorus - “Glory to God”2:47
  20. Part I: Air - “Rejoice Greatly O Daughter of Zion”5:07
  21. Part I: Recit - “Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Open’d”0:36
  22. Part I: Air - “He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd”5:51
  23. Part I: Chorus - “His Yoke Is Easy”2:59
  24. Part II: Chorus - “Behold the Lamb God”4:06

CD 2

  1. Part II: Air - “He Was Despised”5:39
  2. Part II: Chorus - “Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs”5:32
  3. Part II: Chorus - “All We, Like Sheep Have Gone Astray”5:14
  4. Part II: Recit - “All That They See Him to Scorn”0:51
  5. Part II: Chorus - “He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him”2:24
  6. Part II: Recit - “Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart”2:07
  7. Part II: Air - “Behold and See If There Be Any Sorrow”2:15
  8. Part II: Recit - “He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living”0:26
  9. Part II: Air - “But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell”2:35
  10. Part II: Chorus - “Who Is the King of Glory”4:00
  11. Part II: Chorus - “The Lord Gave the Word”1:37
  12. Part II: Air - “How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them”3:02
  13. Part II: Chorus - “Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All the Lands”2:04
  14. Part II: Air - “Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage”3:05
  15. Part II: Chorus - “Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder”2:22
  16. Part II: Recitative - “He That Dwelleth in Heaven”0:17
  17. Part II: Air - “Thou Shalt Break Them”2:16
  18. Part II: Chorus - “Hallelujah”5:24
  19. Part III: Air - “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”7:09
  20. Part III: Chorus - “Since by Man Came Death”2:32
  21. Part III: Recit - “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery”0:41
  22. Part III: Air - “The Trumpet Shall Sound”4:22
  23. Part III: Chorus - “Worthy Is the Lamb”4:58
  24. Part III: Chorus - “Amen”4:28