Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Part I
"But who may abide the day of His coming?" (alto)
"Behold, a virgin shall conceive" (alto) - "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion" (alto)
"For behold, darkness shall cover the earth" (bass) - "The people that walked in darkness" (bass)
"There were shepherds abiding in the field" (treble) - "Glory to God in the highest"
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"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion" (soprano II)
"Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened" (soprano I) - "He shall feed His flock like a shepherd" (alto & soprano I)
"Surely He hath borne our griefs" - "All we like sheep have gone astray"
"All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn" (tenor) - "He trusted in God that He would deliver Him"
"Thy rebuke hath broken His heart" (tenor) - "Behold and see..." (tenor) - "He was cut off out of the land..." (soprano I)
"But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell" (soprano I)
"Unto which of the angels said He at any time" (tenor) - "Let all the angels of God worship Him"
"How beautiful are the feet of them" (soprano I)
"Why do the nations so furiously rage together" (bass)
"He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn" (tenor) - "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron" (tenor)
"I know that my redeemer liveth" (soprano I)
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Part III
"Behold, I tell you a mystery" (bass) - "The trumpet shall sound" (bass)
"Then shall be brought to pass..." (alto) - "O Death, where is thy sting?"(alto & tenor) - "But thanks be to God..."
"If God be for us, who can be against us?" (soprano II)
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Part III
Producción
- Nicholas ParkerProducción
- Tim HandleyIngeniería
- Mason ChamberlinIlustración de portada
- Gerhard RufFotografía
- Zarcillo Salzillo y AlcarazIlustración de portada
- Donald BurrowsNotas de álbum
- Hans MemlingIlustración de portada
- Giovanni Antonio CanalIlustración de portada
- Rogier van der WeydenIlustración de portada
- Jean-Francois LabieNotas de álbum
- GiottoIlustración de portada
- Jan ProvostIlustración de portada
- William HoareIlustración de portada
- Edward EdwardsIlustración de portada
- Raffaello, aka RaphaelIlustración de portada
- Hermann HeidelIlustración de portada
- Henning BockFotografía
- Erich LessingFotografía