Album lyrics Handel: Messiah by Richard Westenburg

Handel: Messiah

Richard Westenburg

2000 53 songs

1. Messiah/Part I/Overture

2. Messiah/Part I/Comfort ye, comfort ye my people (Recit)

3. Messiah/Part I/Every valley shall be exalted (Air)

4. Messiah/Part I/And the glory of the Lord (Chorus)

5. Messiah/Part I/Thus saith the Lord of hosts (Recit)

6. Messiah/Part I/But who may abide the day of His coming? (Air)

7. Messiah/Part I/And He shall purify (Chorus)

8. Messiah/Part I/Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Recit)

9. Messiah/Part I/O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Air & Chorus)

10. Messiah/Part I/For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Recit)

11. Messiah/Part I/The people that walked in darkness (Air)

12. Messiah/Part I/For unto us a child is born (Chorus)

13. Messiah/Part I/Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)

14. Messiah/Part I/There were shepherds abiding in the field / And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them (Recit)

15. Messiah/Part I/And the angel said unto them (Recit)

16. Messiah/Part I/And suddenly there was with the angel (Recit)

17. Messiah/Part I/Glory To God in the highest (Chorus)

18. Messiah/Part I/Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Air)

19. Messiah/Part I/Then shall the eyes of the blind (Recit)

20. Messiah/Part I/He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; Come unto Him (Airs)

21. Messiah/Part I/His yoke is easy, and His burden is light (Chorus)

22. Messiah/Part II/Behold the Lamb of God (Chorus)

23. Messiah/Part II/He was despised (Air)

24. Messiah/Part II/Surely He hath borne our griefs (Chorus)

25. Messiah/Part II/And with His stripes we are healed (Chorus)

26. Messiah/Part II/All we like sheep have gone astray (Chorus)

27. Messiah/Part II/All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn (Recit)

28. Messiah/Part II/He trusted in God (Chorus)

29. Messiah/Part II/Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Recit)

30. Messiah/Part II/Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (Air)

31. Messiah/Part II/He was cut off out of the land of the living (Recit)

32. Messiah/Part II/But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Air)

33. Messiah/Part II/Lift up your heads, O ye gates (Chorus)

34. Messiah/Part II/Unto which of the angels said He at any time (Recit)

35. Messiah/Part II/Let all the angels of God worship Him (Chorus)

36. Messiah/Part II/Thou art gone up on high (Air)

37. Messiah/Part II/The Lord gave the word (Chorus)

38. Messiah/Part II/How beautiful are the feet; Break forth (Air & Chorus)

39. Messiah/Part II/Their sound is gone out into all lands (Chorus)

40. Messiah/Part II/Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Air)

41. Messiah/Part II/Let us break their bonds asunder (Chorus)

42. Messiah/Part II/He that dwelleth in Heaven (Recit)

43. Messiah/Part II/Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (Air)

44. Messiah/Part II/Hallelujah (Chorus)

45. Messiah/Part III/I know that my Redeemer liveth (Air)

46. Messiah/Part III/Since by man came death (Chorus)

47. Messiah/Part III/Behold, I tell you a mystery (Recit)

48. Messiah/Part III/The trumpet shall sound (Air)

49. Messiah/Part III/Then shall be brought to pass (Recit)

50. Messiah/Part III/O death, where is thy sting? (Duet)

51. Messiah/Part III/But thanks be to God (Chorus)

52. Messiah/Part III/If God be for us (Air)

53. Messiah/Part III/Worthy is the Lamb that was Slain (Chorus)

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