The Messiah
19940623
Labels: Chesky Records
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Disc1
| 1 | Part I: Overture | George Frideric Handel | 5:09 |
| 2 | Part I: Recit - “Comfort Ye” | George Frideric Handel | 4:00 |
| 3 | Part I: Air - “Every Valley” | George Frideric Handel | 4:16 |
| 4 | Part I: Chorus - “And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed” | George Frideric Handel | 3:51 |
| 5 | Part I: Recit - “Thus Saith the Lord” | George Frideric Handel | 1:51 |
| 6 | Part I: Air - “But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming” | George Frideric Handel | 5:31 |
| 7 | Part I: Chorus - “And He Shall Purify” | George Frideric Handel | 3:07 |
| 8 | Part I: Recit - “Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive” | George Frideric Handel | 0:32 |
| 9 | Part I: Air - “O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion” | George Frideric Handel | 7:12 |
| 10 | Part I: Recit - “For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth” | George Frideric Handel | 2:56 |
| 11 | Part I: Air - “The People That Walked in the Darkness” | George Frideric Handel | 5:06 |
| 12 | Part I: Chorus - “For Unto Us a Child Is Born” | George Frideric Handel | 5:18 |
| 13 | Part I: Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) | George Frideric Handel | 4:00 |
| 14 | Part I: Recit - “There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Fields” | George Frideric Handel | 0:25 |
| 15 | Part I: Recit - “And Low the Angel” | George Frideric Handel | 0:29 |
| 16 | Part I: Recit - “And the Angel Said Unto Them” | George Frideric Handel | 0:25 |
| 17 | Part I: Recit - “For Unto You” | George Frideric Handel | 0:28 |
| 18 | Part I: Recit - “And Suddenly There Was With the Angel” | George Frideric Handel | 0:25 |
| 19 | Part I: Chorus - “Glory to God” | George Frideric Handel | 2:47 |
| 20 | Part I: Air - “Rejoice Greatly O Daughter of Zion” | George Frideric Handel | 5:07 |
| 21 | Part I: Recit - “Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Open’d” | George Frideric Handel | 0:36 |
| 22 | Part I: Air - “He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd” | George Frideric Handel | 5:51 |
| 23 | Part I: Chorus - “His Yoke Is Easy” | George Frideric Handel | 2:59 |
| 24 | Part II: Chorus - “Behold the Lamb God” | George Frideric Handel | 4:06 |
Disc2
| 1 | Part II: Air - “He Was Despised” | George Frideric Handel | 5:39 |
| 2 | Part II: Chorus - “Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs” | George Frideric Handel | 5:32 |
| 3 | Part II: Chorus - “All We, Like Sheep Have Gone Astray” | George Frideric Handel | 5:14 |
| 4 | Part II: Recit - “All That They See Him to Scorn” | George Frideric Handel | 0:51 |
| 5 | Part II: Chorus - “He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him” | George Frideric Handel | 2:24 |
| 6 | Part II: Recit - “Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart” | George Frideric Handel | 2:07 |
| 7 | Part II: Air - “Behold and See If There Be Any Sorrow” | George Frideric Handel | 2:15 |
| 8 | Part II: Recit - “He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living” | George Frideric Handel | 0:26 |
| 9 | Part II: Air - “But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell” | George Frideric Handel | 2:35 |
| 10 | Part II: Chorus - “Who Is the King of Glory” | George Frideric Handel | 4:00 |
| 11 | Part II: Chorus - “The Lord Gave the Word” | George Frideric Handel | 1:37 |
| 12 | Part II: Air - “How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them” | George Frideric Handel | 3:02 |
| 13 | Part II: Chorus - “Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All the Lands” | George Frideric Handel | 2:04 |
| 14 | Part II: Air - “Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage” | George Frideric Handel | 3:05 |
| 15 | Part II: Chorus - “Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder” | George Frideric Handel | 2:22 |
| 16 | Part II: Recitative - “He That Dwelleth in Heaven” | George Frideric Handel | 0:17 |
| 17 | Part II: Air - “Thou Shalt Break Them” | George Frideric Handel | 2:16 |
| 18 | Part II: Chorus - “Hallelujah” | George Frideric Handel | 5:24 |
| 19 | Part III: Air - “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” | George Frideric Handel | 7:09 |
| 20 | Part III: Chorus - “Since by Man Came Death” | George Frideric Handel | 2:32 |
| 21 | Part III: Recit - “Behold, I Tell You a Mystery” | George Frideric Handel | 0:41 |
| 22 | Part III: Air - “The Trumpet Shall Sound” | George Frideric Handel | 4:22 |
| 23 | Part III: Chorus - “Worthy Is the Lamb” | George Frideric Handel | 4:58 |
| 24 | Part III: Chorus - “Amen” | George Frideric Handel | 4:28 |