Neville Marriner & The Academy And Chorus Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields - Handel: Messiah (1995)
Artist: Sir Neville Marriner, Academy And Chorus Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
Title: Handel: Messiah
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 02:20:23
Total Size: 671 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Handel: Messiah
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 02:20:23
Total Size: 671 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
CD 1
Part I
01. No.1 Symphony
02. Nos.2/3 Recitative & Air tenor : Comfort ye my people
03. No.4 Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
04. Nos.5/6 Recitative & Air bass : Thus said the Lord
05. No.7 Chorus: And he shall purify
06. Nos.8/9 Recitative & Air alto & Chorus: Behold, a virgin
07. Nos.10/11 Recitative & Air bass : For behold, darkness
08. No.12 Chorus: For unto us a child is born
09. No.13 Pifa
10. Nos.14-16 Recitative soprano : There were shepherds, abiding
11. No.17 Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
12. No.18 Air soprano : Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion
13. Nos.19/20 Recitative And Aria alto : Then shall the eyes
14. No.21 Chorus: His yoke is easy
Part II
15. No.22 Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
16. No.23 Air alto : He was despised
CD 2
01. No.24 Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs
02. No.25 Chorus: And with his stripes
03. No.26 Chorus: All we like sheep
04. Nos.27/28 Recitative tenor & Chorus: All they that see him
05. Nos.29/30 Recitative & Arioso soprano : Thy rebuke hath broken
06. Nos.31/32 Recitative & Air tenor : He was cut off out of the land
07. No.33 Chorus: Lift up your heads
08. Nos.34/35 Recitative tenor & Chorus: Unto which of the angels
09. No.36 Air bass : Thou art gone up on high
10. No.37 Chorus: The Lord gave the word
11. No.38 Duet soprano & alto, Chorus: How beautiful are the feet
12. No.39 Arioso tenor : Their sound is gone out
13. Nos.40/41 Air bass & Chorus: Why do the nations so furiously
14. Nos.42/43 Recitative & Air tenor : He that dwelleth in heaven
15. No.44 Chorus: Hallelujah
Part III
16. No.45 Air soprano : I know that my Redeemer liveth
17. No.46 Chorus: Since by man came death
18. Nos.47/48 Recitative & Air bass : Behold, I tell you a mystery
19. Nos.49-51 Recitative alto, Duet alto & tenor, Chorus:
20. No.52 Air alto : If God be for us
21. No.53 Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb ... Amen
Neville Marriner's 1976 account of the Covent Garden version of the score (1743), with the Academy and Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and soloists Elly Ameling, Anna Reynolds, Philip Langridge, and Gwynne Howell, is positively plush-sounding but nicely animated. I'd love to have this kind of string tone for, say, the Dvorák Serenade, but for Handel it may be just a bit much. -- Ted Libbey
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