Handel / Smart / Towers / Hart-Davis / Boughton Messiah CD

1. Sinfonia (Overture): Grave 2. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro Moderato 3. Recitative: Comfort Ye My People 4. Aria Tenor: Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted 5. Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord 6. Recitative: Thus Saith the Lord 7. Aria Counter-Tenor: But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming? 8. Chorus: And He Shall Purify 9. Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive 10. Aria Counter-Tenor: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion 11. Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion 12. Recitative: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth 13. Aria Baritone: The People That Walked in Darkness 14. Chorus: For Unto Us a Child Is Born 15. Pifa ('Pastoral Symphony') 16. Recitative: There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field 17. Recitative: And Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them 18. Recitative: And the Angel Said Unto Them 19. Recitiative: And Suddenly There Was with the Angel 20. Chorus: Glory to God 21. Aria Soprano: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion 22. Recitative: Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind 23. Aria Counter-Tenor ; Soprano: He Shall Feed His Flock 24. Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy, and His Burthen Is Light 25. Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God 26. Aria Counter-Tenor: He Was Despised 27. Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs 28. Chorus: And with His Stripes We Are Healed 29. Chorus: And We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray 30. Recitative: All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn 31. Chorus: He Trusted in God 32. Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart 33. Aria Soprano: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow 34. Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living 35. Aria Tenor: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell 36. Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates 37. Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time 38. Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him 39. Aria Counter-Tenor: Thou Art Gone Up on High 40. Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word 41. Aria Soprano: How Beautiful Are the Feet 42. Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out 43. Aria Baritone: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together? 44. Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder 45. Recitative: He That Dwelleth in Heaven 46. Aria Tenor: Thou Shalt Break Them 47. Chorus: Hallelujah 48. Aria Soprano: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth 49. Chorus: Since By Man Came Death 50. Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery 51. Aria Baritone: The Trumpet Shall Sound 52. Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass 53. Duet Counter-Tenor ; Tenor: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? 54. Chorus: But Thanks Be to God 55. Aria Soprano: If God Be for Us 56. Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain 57. Chorus: Amen