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YOU CAN HEAR THE DIFFERENCE

HANDEL'S
Messiah


TWO CD SET

Sir Malcolm Sargent, Conductor
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Choral Society
Norma Procter, Contralto
John Shirley-Quirk, Bass Baritone
Elizabeth Harwood, Soprano
Alexander Young, Tenor
Arnold Grier, Organist


Produced by: Charles Gerhardt
Recording Engineer: K. E. Wilkinson
Recorded May 11-22, 1965
London, England


[CD106]


Disc 1
Part I

[1]   Overture
[2]   Recit - "Comfort Ye"
[3]   Air - "Every Valley"
[4]   Chorus - "And The Glory of The Lord Shall be Revealed"
[5]   Recit - "Thus Saith The Lord"
[6]   Air - "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming"
[7]   Chorus - "And He Shall Purify"
[8]   Recit - "Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive"
[9]   Air - "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion"
[10] Recit - "For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover The Earth"
[11] Air - "The People That Walked In Darkness"
[12] Chorus - "For Unto Us A Child Is Born"
[13] Pifa - (Pastoral Symphony)
[14] Recit - "There Were Shepherds Abiding In The Field"
[15] Recit - "And Low The Angel"
[16] Recit - "And The Angel Said Unto Them"
[17] Recit - "For Unto You"
[18] Recit - "And Suddenly There Was With The Angel"
[19] Chorus - "Glory To God"
[20] Air - "Rejoice Greatly O Daughter Of Zion"
[21] Recit - "Then Shall The Eyes Of The Blind Be Open'd"
[22] Air - "He Shall Feed His Flock Like A Shepherd"
[23] Chorus - "His Yoke Is Easy"


Part II
[24] Chorus - "Behold The Lamb if God
Disc 2
Part II
continued

[1]   Air - "He Was Despised"
[2]   Chorus - "Surely He Haith Borne Our Griefs"
[3]   Chorus - "All We, Like Sheep Have Gone Astray"
[4]   Recit - "All That They See Him to Scorn"
[5]   Chorus - "He Trusted In God That He Would Deliver Him"
[6]   Recit - "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"
[7]   Air - "Behold And See If There Be Any Sorrow"
[8]   Recit - "He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land Of The Living"
[9]   Air - "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell"
[10] Chorus - "Who Is The King Of Glory"
[11] Chorus - "The Lord Gave The Word"
[12] Air - "How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Them"
[13] Chorus - "Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands"
[14] Air - "Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage"
[15] Chorus - "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder"
[16] Recit - "He That Dwelleth In Heaven"
[17] Air - "Thou Shalt Break Them"
[18] Chorus -"Hallelujah!"


Part III
[19] Air - "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
[20] Chorus - "Since By Man Came Death"
[21] Recit - "Behold, I Tell You A Mystery
[22] Air - "The Trumpet Shall Sound"
[23] Chorus - "Worthy Is The Lamb"
[24] Chorus - "Amen"


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