Handel's Messiah

George Frideric Handel

Messiah, HWV 56
1. Sinfonia
2. Accompagnato: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Tenor)
3. Air: Ev’ry valley shall be exalted (Tenor)
4. Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord (Chorus)
5. Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts
(Baritone)
6. Air: But who may abide the day of His coming (Mezzo
Soprano)
7. Chorus: And He shall purify (Chorus)
Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Mezzo Soprano)
8. Air and Chorus: O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion
(Mezzo Soprano, Chorus)
9. Accompagnato: For, behold, darkness (Baritone)
10. Air: The people that walked in darkness (Baritone)
11. Chorus: For unto us a child is born (Chorus)
12. Pifa: Pastoral Symphony
Recitative: There were shepherds abiding in the field
(Soprano)
13. Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon
them (Soprano)
Recitative: And the angel said unto them (Soprano)
14. Accompagnato: And suddenly there was with the angel
(Soprano)
15. Chorus: Glory to God in the highest (Chorus)
16. Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Soprano)
Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened (Mezzo
Soprano)
17. Duet: He shall feed his fl ock like a shepherd (Mezzo
Soprano and Soprano)
18. Chorus: His yoke is easy, His burden is light (Chorus)
INTERMISSION
19. Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God (Chorus)
20. Air: He was despised (Mezzo Soprano)
21. Chorus: Surely He hath borne our griefs (Chorus)
22. Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed (Chorus)
23. Chorus: All we, like sheep, have gone astray (Chorus)
24. Accompagnato: All they that see him, laugh him to scorn
(Tenor)
25. Chorus: He trusted in God (Chorus)
26. Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken (Tenor)
27. Arioso: Behold and see (Tenor)
28. Accompagnato: He was cut off (Soprano)
29. Air: But Thou didst not leave (Soprano)
36. Air: Why do the nations rage? (Baritone)
37. Chorus: Let us break their bonds (Chorus)
Recitative: He that dwelleth in Heaven shall laugh them to
scorn (Tenor)
38. Air: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (Tenor)
39. Chorus: Hallelujah! (Chorus)
40. Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth (Soprano)
41. Chorus: Since by man came death (Chorus)
42. Accompagnato: Behold I tell you a mystery (Baritone)
43. Air: The trumpet shall sound (Baritone)
46. Air: If God be for us (Soprano)
47. Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain (Chorus)
Chorus: Amen (Chorus)