Handel / Aam / Higginbottom Messiah CD

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.

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) 22. Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs and Carried Our Sorrows 23. Chorus: And with His Stripes We Are Healed 24. Chorus: All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray 25. Accompanied Recitative: All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn (Tenor) 26. Chorus: He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him 27. Accompanied Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor) 28. Aria: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor) 29. Accompanied Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living (Treble: Henry Jenkinson) 30. Aria: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell (Treble: Henry Jenkinson) 31. Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates 32. Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time (Tenor) 33. Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him 34. Aria: Thou Art Gone Up on High (Countertenor) 35. Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word 36. Aria: How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them That Preach the Gospel of Peace (Treble: Otta Jones) 37. Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands 38. Aria: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together (Bass) 39. Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder 40. Recitative: He That Dwelleth in Heaven Shall Laugh Them to Scorn (Tenor) 41. Aria: Thou Shalt Break Them with a Rod of Iron (Tenor) 42. Chorus: Hallelujah 43. Aria: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Treble: Henry Jenkinson) 44. Chorus: Since By Man Came Death 45. Accompanied Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery (Bass) 46. Aria: The Trumpet Shall Sound (Bass) (Trumpet: David Blackadder) 47. Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass the Saying That Is Written (Countertenor) 48. Duet: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting (Countertenor and Tenor) 49. Chorus: But Thanks Be to God 50. Aria: If God Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us (Countertenor) 51. Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain 52. Chorus: Amen