Handel’s Messiah: Special Concert

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PART I
1. Sinfonia
2. Accompagnato Comfort ye, my people {Tenor}
3. Air Ev’ry valley {Tenor}
4. Chorus And the Glory of the Lord {chorus}
5. Accompagnato Thus saith the Lord of Hosts {Bass}
6. Air But who may abide the day of His coming {Alto}
7. Chorus And He shall purify {chorus}
Recitative Behold, a virgin shall conceive {Alto}
8. Air and Chor O Thou that tellest, good tidings to Zion {Alto}
9. Accompagnato For behold, darkness shall cover the earth {Bass}
10. Air The people that walked in darkness {Bass}
11. Chorus For unto us a Child is born {chorus}
12. Pifa (Sinphonia pastorale)
Recitative There were shepherds abiding in the field {Soprano}
13. Accompagnato And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them {Soprano}
Recitative And the angel said unto them {Soprano}
14. Accompagnato And suddenly there was with the angel {Soprano}
15. Chorus Glory to God in the highest {chorus}
Recitative Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened {Alto}
17. Duet He shall feed His flock {Alto, Soprano}
18. Chorus His yoke is easy, His burthen is light {chorus}

– Intermission –

PART II 
19. Chorus Behold the Lamb of God {chorus}
20. Air He was despised {Alto}
21. Chorus Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows {chorus}
22. Chorus And with His stripes we are healed {chorus}
23. Chorus All we like sheep, have gone astray {chorus} 24. Accompagnato All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn {Tenor}
25. Chorus He trusted in God {chorus}
26. Accompagnato Thy rebuke hath broken His heart {Tenor}
27. Arioso Behold, and see if there be any sorrow {Tenor}
28. Accompagnato He was cut off out of the land of the living {Tenor}
29. Air But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell {Tenor}
30. Chorus Lift up your heads {chorus}
32. Air Thou art gone up on high {Alto}
33. Chorus The Lord gave the word {chorus}
34a. Air How beautiful are the feet of them {Soprano}
36. Air Why do the nations so furiously rage together {Bass}
37. Chorus Let us break their bonds asunder {chorus} Recitative He that dwelleth in heaven {Tenor}
38. Air Though shalt break them with a rod of iron {Tenor}
39. Chorus Hallelujah {chorus}

‐ Pause ‐

PART III 
40. Air I know that my Redeemer liveth {Soprano}
41. Chorus Since by man came death {chorus}
42. Accompagnato Behold I tell you a mystery {Bass}
43. Air The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be rais’d {Bass}
46. Air If God be for us, who can be against us {Soprano}
47. Chorus Worthy is the Lamb; Amen