‎Handel: Messiah by Robert Shaw Orchestra — Apple Music Classical

No. 1. Sinfonia (Overture)

Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Conant, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Orchestra

3:56

No. 2. Recitative: Comfort Ye My People

Robert Shaw, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Orchestra

3:31

No. 3. Air: Every Valley Shall Be Exalted

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Richard Lewis

3:40

No. 4. Chorus: And the Glory of the Lord

Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul, Florence Kopleff, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold

2:49

No. 5. Recitative: Thus Saith the Lord

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold

1:40

No. 6. Air: But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?

Robert Shaw, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold

4:50

No. 7. Chorus: And He Shall Purify

Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Thomas Paul, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Orchestra

2:27

No. 8. Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive

Richard Lewis, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Orchestra

0:28

No. 9. Air: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff

5:39

No. 10. Recitative: For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Richard Lewis, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul

2:29

No. 11. Air: The People That Walked In Darkness

Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Conant, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul

4:56

No. 12. Chorus: For Unto Us a Child Is Born

Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant, Thomas Paul

3:51

No. 13. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw

1:06

No. 14a. Recitative: There Were Shepherds Abiding In the Field; No. 14b and Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them

Robert Conant, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw, Florence Kopleff, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Richard Lewis

0:38

No. 15. Recitative: And the Angel Said Unto Them

Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Richard Lewis

0:49

No. 16. Recitative: And Suddenly There Was With the Angel

Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

0:18

No. 17. Chorus: Glory to God

Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold

1:48

No. 18. Air: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion

Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw

4:38

No. 19. Recitative: Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind

Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Conant, Florence Kopleff

0:28

No. 20. Air: He Shall Feed His Flock; Air: Come Unto Him

Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant

5:26

No. 21. Chorus: His Yoke Is Easy, and His Burthen Is Light

Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Conant, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold

2:11

No. 22. Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God

Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Florence Kopleff, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Conant

4:02

No. 23. Air: He Was Despised

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

12:21

No. 24. Chorus: Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul

2:22

No. 25. Chorus: And With His Stripes We Are Healed

Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Thomas Paul

1:47

No. 26. Chorus: All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astry

Robert Conant, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul

4:19

No. 27. Recitative: All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn

Robert Shaw Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Conant, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw

0:48

No. 28. Chorus: He Trusted In God

Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

1:57

No. 29. Recitative: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Robert Conant

2:19

No. 30. Air: Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow

Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

2:04

No. 31. Recitative: He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living

Robert Conant, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

0:29

No. 32. Air: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell

Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw

2:40

No. 33. Chorus: Lift Up Your Head, O Ye Gates

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul

2:49

No. 34. Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He At Any Time

Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff

0:23

No. 35. Chorus: Let All the Angels of God Worship Him

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale

1:23

No. 36. Air: Thou Art Gone Up On High

Richard Lewis, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw

3:15

No. 37. Chorus: The Lord Gave the Word

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw, Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale

1:06

No. 38. Air: How Beautiful Are the Feet

Richard Lewis, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff

2:38

No. 39. Chorus: Their Sound Is Gone Out

Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

1:24

No. 40. Air: Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra

1:29

No. 41. Chorus: Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder

Thomas Paul, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Conant, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra

1:51

No. 42. Recitative: He That Dwelleth In Heaven

Thomas Paul, Richard Lewis, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Florence Kopleff

0:18

No. 43. Air: Thou Shalt Break Them

Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale

2:12

No. 44. Chorus: Hallelujah

Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale, Thomas Paul, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

3:22

No. 45. Air: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth

Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Thomas Paul, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw

6:54

No. 46. Chorus: Since By Man Came Death

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw, Florence Kopleff, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold

2:04

No. 47. Recitative: Behold, I Tell You a Mystery

Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Conant, Thomas Paul, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra

0:39

No. 48. Air: The Trumpet Shall Sound

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Conant, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis

8:53

No. 49. Recitative: Then Shall Be Brought to Pass

Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Conant, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis

0:19

No. 50. Duet: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Conant, Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw

1:06

No. 51. Chorus: But Thanks Be to God

Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Richard Lewis, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Thomas Paul, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Conant

2:16

No. 52. Air: If God Be for Us

Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Chorale, Thomas Paul, Florence Kopleff, Richard Lewis, Robert Shaw, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Conant

5:21

No. 53. Chorus: Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain

Richard Lewis, Florence Kopleff, Robert Shaw, Robert Conant, Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra, Thomas Paul, Judith Raskin, Robert Arnold, Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale

6:04

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach

Composer
Robert Shaw

Conductor
Robert Shaw Chorale

Choir
Judith Raskin

Soprano

Jon M. Samuels

Reissue Producer
Peter Dellheim

Producer
Bernard Keville

Recording Engineer