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Haendel: Messiah

Georg Friedrich Händel

Haendel: Messiah

Watts, Wyn-Rogers, Le Brocq, …, Northern Sinfonia / Glover

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212024621

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Catalog number: SIGCD 246
Releasedate: 01-04-11

http://www.signumrecords.com/products/booklets/SIGCD246booklet.pdf

The Huddersfield Choral Society continue with arguably the best-loved musical work of all time Messiah, more than two and a half centuries on from that celebrated first performance in Dublin’s New Music Hall in April 1742.

Christians Awake

Sinfony (Overture)

Accompagnato: Comfort Ye (tenor)

Song: Every Valley (tenor)

Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord

Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord (bass)

Song: But who may abide (alto)

Chorus: And He shall purify

Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (alto)

Song & Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (alto)

Accompagnato: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (bass)

Song: The people that walked in darkness (bass)

Chorus: For unto us a Child is born

Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

Recitative, Accompagnato, Recitative: There were shepherds (soprano), And lo, the Angel of the Lord (soprano), And the Angel said unto them (soprano)

Accompagnato: And suddenly there was with the Angel (soprano)

Chorus : Glory to God in the highest

Song: Rejoice greatly (soprano)

Recitative, Song: Then shall the eyes of the blind (alto), He shall feed His flock (alto & soprano)

Chorus: His yoke is easy

Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God

Song: He was despised (alto)

Chorus: Surely, He hath borne our griefs

Chorus: And with His stripes

Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray

Accompagnato: All they that see Him (tenor)

Chorus: He trusted in God

Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (tenor)

Song: Behold and see (tenor)

Accompagnato: He was cut off (tenor)

Song: But Thou didst not leave (tenor)

Chorus : Lift up your heads

Song: Thou art gone up on high (alto)

Chorus : The Lord gave the word

Song: How beautiful are the feet (soprano)

Chorus : Their sound is gone out into all lands

Song: Why do the nations so furiously rage (bass)

Chorus : Let us break their bonds asunder

Recitative : He that dwelleth in Heaven (tenor)

Song: Thou shalt break them (tenor)

Chorus: Hallelujah!

Song: I know that my Redeemer liveth (soprano)

Chorus: Since by man came death

Accompagnato : Behold, I tell you a mystery (bass)

Song: The trumpet shall sound (bass)

Recitative & Duet: Then shall be brought to pass (alto), O death, where is thy sting? (alto & tenor)

Chorus: But thanks be to God

Song: If God be for us (soprano)

Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb