Hilary Summers - George Frideric Handel: Messiah (CD)

Handel's Messiah is one of the best known and most performed works in Western music. Alto is pleased to offer Handel's Messiah in full performance by King's College Choir, Cambridge.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Part 1
2. Messiah, HWV 56: Sinfonia
3. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Comfort Ye My People"
4. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted"
5. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "And the Glory, the Glory of the Lord"
6. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Thus Saith the Lord"
7. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "But Who May Abide"
8. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "And He Shall Purify"
9. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive"
10. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "O Thou That Tellest"
11. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "For Behold, Darkness Shall Come Over the Earth"
12. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "The People That Walked in Darkness"
13. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "For Unto Us a Child Is Born"
14. Messiah, HWV 56: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
15. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "There Were Shepherds"
16. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "And the Angel Said Unto Them"
17. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "And Suddenly, There Was with the Angel"
18. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Glory to God in the Highest"
19. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion"
20. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind"
21. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "And He Shall Feed His Flock"
22. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "His Yoke Is Easy"
23. Part 2
24. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Behold the Lamb of God"
25. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "He Was Despised"

Disc: 2

1. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs"
2. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "And with His Stripes We Are Healed"
3. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "All We Like Sheep"
4. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "All They That See Him"
5. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "He Trusted in God"
6. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "They Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"
7. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow"
8. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "He Was Cut Off Out of the Land"
9. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "But Thou Didst Not Leave"
10. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Lift Up Your Heads"
11. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Unto Which of the Angels"
12. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Let All the Angels of God Worship Him"
13. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "Thou Art Gone Up on High"
14. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "The Lord Gave the Word"
15. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "How Beautiful Are the Feet"
16. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Their Sound Is Gone Out"
17. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "Why Do the Nations?"
18. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder"
19. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "He That Dwellers in Heaven"
20. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "Thou Shalt Break Them"
21. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Hallelujah!"
22. Part Three
23. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
24. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Since By Man Came Death"
25. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery"
26. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "The Trumpet Shall Sound"
27. Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative. "Then Shall Be Brought to Pass"
28. Messiah, HWV 56: Duet. "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?"
29. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "But Thanks Be to God"
30. Messiah, HWV 56: Aria. "If God Be for Us"
31. Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus. "Worthy Is the Lamb"