Artist: Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations
Title: Handel: The Messiah, HWV 56
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Alia Vox
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 2:24:04
Total Size: 953 MB
Tracklist:Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759)1 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Sinfony Overture Grave. Allegro moderato 03:03
2 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "Comfort ye My People" 02:57
3 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted" 03:24
4 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "And the Glory of The Lord" 02:48
5 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato: Thus Saith The Lord 01:27
6 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming? 04:23
7 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "And He Shall Purify" 02:32
8 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive" 00:24
9 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air & Chorus "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion" 05:20
10 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "For, Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth" 02:18
11 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "The People That Walked in Darkness" 03:07
12 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" 04:15
13 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Pifa "Pastoral Symphony" 02:37
14 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field" 00:41
15 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "And, lo, The Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them" 00:32
16 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "And the Angel Said Unto Them" 00:19
17 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "Glory to God" 02:15
18 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion" 04:07
19 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind" 00:26
20 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "He Shall Feed His Flock" 04:47
21 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "His Yoke Is Easy" 02:31
22 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God" 03:30
23 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "He Was Despised" 09:54
24 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs" 01:47
25 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "And With His Stripes We Are Healed" 01:38
26 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray" 04:23
27 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative Accompagnato "All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn" 00:47
28 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "He Trusted in God" 02:28
29 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative Accompagnato "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart" 02:08
30 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Behold, And See if There Be Any Sorrow" 01:24
31 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative Accompagnato "He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living" 00:18
32 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell" 02:20
33 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Lift Up Your Heads, O ye Gates" 03:14
34 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time" 00:25
35 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Let All the Angels of God Worship Him" 01:30
36 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Thou Art Gone Up on High" 03:06
37 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "The Lord Gave the Word" 01:10
38 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "How Beautiful Are the Feet" 02:17
39 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Their Sound Is Gone Out" 01:25
40 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?" 02:54
41 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder" 01:41
42 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative "He That Dwelleth in Heaven" 00:15
43 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Thou Shalt Break Them" 01:59
44 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Hallelujah" 03:50
45 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Air "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" 06:30
46 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Chorus "Since By Man Came Death" 02:29
47 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Recitative Accompagnato "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery" 00:32
48 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Air "The Trumpet Shall Sound" 09:04
49 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Recitative "Then Shall Be Bought to Pass" 00:17
50 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Duet "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" 00:58
51 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Chorus "But Thanks Be to God" 02:16
52 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Air "If God Be for Us" 05:11
53 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Chorus "Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain - Amen" 07:46
Jordi Savall's prolific output of recordings on Alia Vox is hard to pigeonhole because his expansive repertoire runs from some of the most obscure early music of the Old and New Worlds, to well-established classics like George Frederick Handel's Messiah. Recorded live at a December, 2017 concert in the Chapelle Royale du Chateau de Versailles, this performance of Messiah is based on the 1741 autograph score in the British Library in London, essentially re-creating the Dublin version, with restored oboe parts taken from the part-books for the 1754 Foundling Hospital version, and with four vocal soloists instead of Handel's original group of nine. Savall uses a small orchestra selected from Le Concert des Nations and his chamber chorus, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, to convey the scale of an early performance, as opposed to the more lavish post-Romantic arrangements with hundreds of musicians, which have become mainstays to modern audiences. Lean in its original orchestration, and particularly athletic in the choral writing, Messiah is shown to be an exciting combination of virtuosic counterpoint and dramatic scene painting, as well as a deeply compelling meditation on the life of Christ, without the excessive reverence of 19th century interpretations or the tasteless bombast of over-the-top modern re-orchestrations, such as those by Eugene Goossens or Andrew Davis. Anyone seeking a satisfying period interpretation of Messiah would do well to try this exceptional recording, which has clearly been a labor of love as well as a well-researched scholarly effort. ~ Blair Sanderson
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