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.
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)
- Disc 2 -
1 Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs and Carried Our Sorrows
2 Chorus: And with His Stripes We Are Healed
3 Chorus: All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
4 Accompanied Recitative: All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn (Tenor)
5 Chorus: He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him
6 Accompanied Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor)
7 Aria: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor)
8 Accompanied Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
9 Aria: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
10 Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
11 Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time (Tenor)
12 Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him
13 Aria: Thou Art Gone Up on High (Countertenor)
14 Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word
15 Aria: How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them That Preach the Gospel of Peace (Treble: Otta Jones)
16 Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands
17 Aria: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together (Bass)
18 Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
19 Recitative: He That Dwelleth in Heaven Shall Laugh Them to Scorn (Tenor)
20 Aria: Thou Shalt Break Them with a Rod of Iron (Tenor)
21 Chorus: Hallelujah
22 Aria: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
23 Chorus: Since By Man Came Death
24 Accompanied Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery (Bass)
25 Aria: The Trumpet Shall Sound (Bass) (Trumpet: David Blackadder)
26 Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass the Saying That Is Written (Countertenor)
27 Duet: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting (Countertenor and Tenor)
28 Chorus: But Thanks Be to God
29 Aria: If God Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us (Countertenor)
30 Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain
31 Chorus: Amen
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.
