Handel’s Messiah has become one of the major icons in the musical life of the UK. Choral societies perform it to willing audiences at Christmas and Easter, the ’Hallelujah’ chorus is sung at football grounds to ribald new lyrics, and the roof of the Royal Albert Hall is periodically tested by the rising air from several thousand enthusiastic amateurs giving it their all in a ‘Messiah from Scratch’.
Bonus DVD
The bonus DVD features highlights from the performances in December 2006 and an interview with Sir Colin Davis.

Composer George Frideric Handel
Conductor Sir Colin Davis
Performers London Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae
Soloists Susan Gritton, Sara Mingardo, Mark Padmore, Alastair Miles

Part 1
1. No 1. Sinfonia
2. No 2. Comfort Ye My People
3. No 3. Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted
4. No 4. And the Glory of the Lord
5. No 5. Thus Saith the Lord
6. No 6. But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?
7. No 7. And He Shall Purify
8. No 8. Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive
9. No 9. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
10. No 9.a. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (Chorus)
11. No 10. For, Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth
12. No 11. The People That Walked In Darkness
13. No 12. For Unto Us a Child Is Born
14. No 13. Pifa
15. Nos 14a-16. There Were Shepherds Abiding In the Field
16. No 17. Glory to God
17. No 18. Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
18. No 19. Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind
19. No 20. He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd
20. No 21. His Yoke Is Easy

Part II
21. No 22. Behold the Lamb of God
22. No 23. He Was Despised
23. No 24. Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs
24. No 25. And With His Stripes We Are Healed
25. No 26. All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray
26. No 27. All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn
27. No 28. He Trusted In God
28. No 29. Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart
29. No 30. Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow
30. No 31. He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living
31. No 32. But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell
32. No 33. Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
33. No 34. Unto Which of the Angels Said He At Any Time
34. No 35. Let All the Angels of God Worship Him
35. No 36. Thou Art Gone Up On High
36. No 37. The Lord Gave the Word
37. No 38. How Beautiful Are the Feet
38. Part II, No 39. Their Sound Is Gone Out
39. No 40. Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?
40. No 41. Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder
41. No 42. He That Dwelleth In Heaven
42. No 43. Thou Shalt Break Them
43. No 44. Hallelujah

Part III
44. No 45. I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
45. No 46. Since By Man Came Death
46. No 47. Behold, I Tell You a Mystery
47. No 48. The Trumpet Shall Sound
48. No 49. Then Shall Be Brought to Pass
49. No 50. O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
50. No 51. But Thanks Be to God
51. No 52. If God be for us
52. No 53a. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
53. No 53b. Amen

Release Date 26 May 2008
LSO0607 | 822231160724

Producer James Mallinson
Engineers Neil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes for Classic Sound Ltd
Recorded December 2006, Barbican, London

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