Messiah

by Sir Adrian Boult

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. No. 01 / Symphony5:10
  2. No. 02 / Recitative "Comfort ye my people"3:37
  3. No. 03 / Air "Every valley shall be exalted"3:34
  4. No. 04 / Chorus "And the glory of the Lord"3:12
  5. No. 05 / Recitative "Ghus saith the Lord"2:02
  6. No. 06 / Air "But who may abide"5:01
  7. No. 07 / Chorus "And he shall purify"2:45
  8. No. 08 - 09 / Air "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"7:22
  9. No. 10 / Recitative "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth"2:31
  10. No. 11 / Air "The people that walked in darkness"4:49
  11. No. 12 / Chorus "For unto us a child is born"4:30
  12. No. 13 / Pifa3:39
  13. No. 14 - 16 / Recitative "there were shepherds.." "And lo, the angel..." " And suddenly there was.."2:04
  14. No. 17 / Chorus "Glory to God in the highest"2:10
  15. No. 18 / Air "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion"4:40
  16. No. 19 - 20 / Recitative and Duet " Then shall the eyes..He shall feed his floch"6:46
  17. No. 21 / Chorus "His yoke is easy"2:37

CD 2

  1. No. 22 / Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God"3:41
  2. No. 23 / Air "He was despised"12:23
  3. No. 24 / Chorus "Surely he hath borne our griefs"2:29
  4. No. 25 / Chorus "And with his stripes"2:34
  5. No. 26 / Chorus "All we like sheep"4:24
  6. No. 27 - 28 / Recitative & Chorus "All they that see him.. He trusted in God"3:14
  7. No. 29 / Recitative "Thy rebuke hath broken his heart"2:24
  8. No. 30 / Arioso "Behold and see"1:47
  9. No. 31 - 32 / Recitative and Air "He was cut off..But thour didst not leave"2:58
  10. No. 33 / Chorus "lift up your heads"3:30
  11. No 34 - 35 / Recitative & Chorus "unto which of the angels...Let all the angels of God"2:08
  12. No. 36 / Air "Thou art gone up on high"3:03
  13. No. 37 / Chorus "The Lord gave the word"1:47
  14. No. 38 / Air "How beauriful are the feet"2:39
  15. No. 39 / Chorus "Their sound is gone out"1:43
  16. No. 40 / Air "Why do the nations"2:53
  17. No. 41 / Chorus "Let us break their bonds"1:50
  18. No. 42 - 43 / Recitative and Air "He that dwelleth in heaven..Thou shalt break them"2:26
  19. No. 44 / Chorus "Hallelujah"4:41

CD 3

  1. No. 45 / Air "I know that my Redeemer liveth"7:10
  2. No. 46 / Chorus "since by man came death"2:20
  3. No. 47 - 48 / Recitative and Air "Behold, I tell you a mystery...The trumpet shall sound"9:10
  4. No. 49 - 51 / Recitative, Duet and Chorus "Then shall be...O Death, where is th sting?.. But thanks..."4:30
  5. No. 52 / Air "If God be for us"4:51
  6. No. 53 / Chorus "Worthy is the Lamb...Amen"9:29
  7. ARIAS / "Deeper, and deeper still..."8:38
  8. ARIAS / "Thanks to my brethren..."7:23
  9. ARIAS / "My arms!...Sound an alarm"4:02
  10. ARIAS / "With plaintive note"5:13
  11. ARIAS / "Let the bright Seraphim"5:54