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Handel: Messiah

Description: Box set / Audio CD released 1993-05-10 at Duo / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Symphony - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Da ... more

Handel: Messiah ... Davis
2 1. Accompagnato: Comfort ye, My people - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 2. Air: Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 3. Chorus: And the glory of the Lord - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 4. Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord - John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 5. Air: "But who may abide the day of his coming" - Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
7 6. Chorus: And He shall purify the sons of Levi - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
8 7. Recit: Behold, a Virgin shall conceive 8. Aria:O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion 9. Coro - Helen Watts, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
9 10. Accompagnato: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth 11. Aria: The people that walked in darkness - John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
10 12. Chorus: "For unto us a Child is born" - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
11 13. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
12 14. Recitative: There were shepherds - Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord - Recitative: And the angel said unto them - Accompagnato: And suddenly - Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
13 15. Chorus: Glory to God in the highest - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
14 16. Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion - Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
15 17a. Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind - Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
16 18a. Duet: He shall feed his flock - Heather Harper, Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
17 19. Chorus: His yoke is easy - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
18 20. Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
19 21. Air: He was despised - Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Disc #2 Tracklisting
1 Chorus: Surely He hath borne - And with His stripes - All we like sheep - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
2 25. Accompagnato: All they that see Him - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
3 26. Chorus: He trusted in God - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
4 27. Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
5 28. Arioso: Behold and see - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
6 Recitativo accompagnato: He was cut off - Air: But Thou didst not leave - Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, John Wakefield
7 31. Chorus: Lift up your heads - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
8 Recitativo: Unto which of the angels - Chorus: Let all the Angels - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, London Symphony Chorus
9 34a. Air: "Thou art gone up on high" - Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, John Shirley-Quirk
10 36. Air: How beautiful are the feet - Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
11 37a. Chorus: Their sound is gone out - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
12 38. Air: Why do the nations - John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
13 39. Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
14 Recitativo: He that dwelleth - Air: Thou shalt break them - John Wakefield, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
15 42. Chorus: "Hallelujah" - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
16 43. Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth - Heather Harper, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
17 44. Chorus: Since by man came death - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
18 45. Accompagnato: Behold, I tell you a mystery - John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
19 46. Air: The trumpet shall sound - John Shirley-Quirk, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
20 Recitativo: Then shall be brought - Duet: O death were is thy sting - Chorus: But thanks be to God - Helen Watts, John Wakefield, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
21 Chorus: 23. The Lord gave the word - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
22 50. Air: If God be for us - Heather Harper, Helen Watts, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis
23 51. Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb... Amen - London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Newest Review: ... for a choral work (say, Brahm's requiem - also a lovely piece), so people can't be *that* bored of it. Most people ... more

... think of the Messiah as a huge choral piece - possibly a big male voice choir with boy sopranos singing the high parts. It is often done this way, but it doesn't have to be. I have an excellent CD from Naxos (the cheapest I could find - I was a student at the time) with only two people singing each part. And its fantastic. Of course, your average amateur choir member couldn't pull this off - its not a particularly difficult sing (certainly not second time around) but it does require a fair amount voice fl...more

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Handel: Messiah: "A favourite thing" - singing the Messiah (609 words)
by NCG1 - written on 11.07.02 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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Singing makes me happy. It also makes me yawn - a side effect of all that oxygen, I suspect. But singing the Messiah makes me more than happy - it gets me high! I come home from rehearsals bubbling (and believe me, 'bubbling' is *not* my natural state at 10.00 on a Monday evening after a long day at work) and I come home from concerts ecstatic. That's why Jill Murphy's request has prompted me to write in this unfamiliar category - I can't think of anything else that makes me feel as good. Well, anything else I can write about on dooyoo...;-) Handel is best known for the Messiah. In fact, its so popular that is has been somewhat ...

Not quite as prolific as he might seem (190 words)
by Gwenick - written on 08.08.00 (Useful, 16 readings)
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Many people mistakenly believe that Handel wrote a great many works. They wouldn't be completely wrong in assuming this, he did write a large a number, but not as many as some might think. Take for example his Recorder Sonata in F major. I played it for a music competition a few years ago. Last year I entered another competition and played th Concerto in F major, apart from a few additions here and there, this was exactly the same piece I had played several years earlier under a different name. I also happen to know that the Organ Concerto in F major is made up chiefly of the same music, again one or two slight alterations. This is very common for ...

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