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Handel' most popular and joyous oratorio, a work of unfailing melodic invention and dramatic expressiveness, has become almost a British national institution, regularly performed by all manner of choirs and orchestras. Album Tracks 1. Sinfonia 2. Accompanied Recitative Comfort Ye, My People (Tenor) 3. Aria Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Tenor) 4. Chorus And the Glory of the Lord 5. Accompanied Recitative Thus Saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass) 6. Aria But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming (Countertenor) 7. Chorus And He Shall Purify 8. Recitative Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive, and Bear a Son (Countertenor) 9. Aria (Countertenor) and Chorus O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings of Zion 10. Accompanied Recitative For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth (Bass) 11. Aria The People That Walked in Darkness (Bass) 12. Chorus For Unto Us a Child Is Born 13. Pifa 14. Accompanied Recitative There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field (Trebles Henry Jenkinson and Robert Brooks) 15. Chorus Glory to God in the Highest 16. Aria Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (Tenor) 17. Recitative Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Opened (Countertenor) 18. Aria He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd (Countertenor; Treble Otta Jones) 19. Chorus His Yoke Is Easy, His Burthen Is Light 20. Chorus Behold, the Lamb of God 21. Aria He Was Despised and Rejected of Men (Countertenor) 1. Chorus Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs and Carried Our Sorrows 2. Chorus And with His Stripes We Are Healed 3. Chorus All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray 4. Accompanied Recitative All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn (Tenor) 5. Chorus He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him 6. Accompanied Recitative Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor) 7. Aria Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor) 8. Accompa
