Messiah
Messiah
Handel / Aam / Higginbottom

Messiah, Handel / Aam / Higginbottom, CD

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Classical Composers, Eamonn Dougan, Edward Higginbottom, Handel / Aam / Higginbottom, Naxos

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.


  • Disc 1, Track: 1 - Sinfonia
  • Disc 1, Track: 2 - Accompanied Recitative: Comfort Ye, My People (Tenor)
  • Disc 1, Track: 3 - Aria: Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Tenor)
  • Disc 1, Track: 4 - Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord
  • Disc 1, Track: 5 - Accompanied Recitative: Thus Saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass)
  • Disc 1, Track: 6 - Aria: But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming (Countertenor)
  • Disc 1, Track: 7 - Chorus: And He Shall Purify
  • Disc 1, Track: 8 - Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive, and Bear a Son (Countertenor)
  • Disc 1, Track: 9 - Aria (Countertenor) and Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings of Zion
  • Disc 1, Track: 10 - Accompanied Recitative: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth (Bass)
  • Disc 1, Track: 11 - Aria: The People That Walked in Darkness (Bass)
  • Disc 1, Track: 12 - Chorus: For Unto Us a Child Is Born
  • Disc 1, Track: 13 - Pifa
  • Disc 1, Track: 14 - Accompanied Recitative: There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field (Trebles: Henry Jenkinson and Robert Brooks)
  • Disc 1, Track: 15 - Chorus: Glory to God in the Highest
  • Disc 1, Track: 16 - Aria: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (Tenor)
  • Disc 1, Track: 17 - Recitative: Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Opened (Countertenor)
  • Disc 1, Track: 18 - Aria: He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd (Countertenor; Treble: Otta Jones)
  • Disc 1, Track: 19 - Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy, His Burthen Is Light
  • Disc 1, Track: 20 - Chorus: Behold, the Lamb of God
  • Disc 1, Track: 21 - Aria: He Was Despised and Rejected of Men (Countertenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 1 - Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs and Carried Our Sorrows
  • Disc 2, Track: 2 - Chorus: And with His Stripes We Are Healed
  • Disc 2, Track: 3 - Chorus: All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
  • Disc 2, Track: 4 - Accompanied Recitative: All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn (Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 5 - Chorus: He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him
  • Disc 2, Track: 6 - Accompanied Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 7 - Aria: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 8 - Accompanied Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
  • Disc 2, Track: 9 - Aria: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
  • Disc 2, Track: 10 - Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
  • Disc 2, Track: 11 - Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time (Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 12 - Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him
  • Disc 2, Track: 13 - Aria: Thou Art Gone Up on High (Countertenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 14 - Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word
  • Disc 2, Track: 15 - Aria: How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them That Preach the Gospel of Peace (Treble: Otta Jones)
  • Disc 2, Track: 16 - Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands
  • Disc 2, Track: 17 - Aria: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together (Bass)
  • Disc 2, Track: 18 - Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
  • Disc 2, Track: 19 - Recitative: He That Dwelleth in Heaven Shall Laugh Them to Scorn (Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 20 - Aria: Thou Shalt Break Them with a Rod of Iron (Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 21 - Chorus: Hallelujah
  • Disc 2, Track: 22 - Aria: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Treble: Henry Jenkinson)
  • Disc 2, Track: 23 - Chorus: Since By Man Came Death
  • Disc 2, Track: 24 - Accompanied Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery (Bass)
  • Disc 2, Track: 25 - Aria: The Trumpet Shall Sound (Bass) (Trumpet: David Blackadder)
  • Disc 2, Track: 26 - Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass the Saying That Is Written (Countertenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 27 - Duet: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting (Countertenor and Tenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 28 - Chorus: But Thanks Be to God
  • Disc 2, Track: 29 - Aria: If God Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us (Countertenor)
  • Disc 2, Track: 30 - Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain
  • Disc 2, Track: 31 - Chorus: Amen