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AMERICAN BACH SOLOISTS • AMERICAN BACH CHOIR
Jeffrey Thomas, conductor

Mary Wilson, soprano
Eric Jurenas, countertenor
Kyle Stegall, tenor
Jesse Blumberg, baritone
John Thiessen, trumpet

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0:00:00 Opening Credits

PART ONE (0:01:30)

0:01:31 SINFONY

SCENE I
0:05:05 Recitative, accompanied - Tenor - Comfort ye, my people
0:08:06 Aria - Tenor - Ev’ry Valley shall be exalted
0:11:29 Chorus - And the Glory of the Lord shall be revealed

SCENE II
0:14:26 Recitative, accompanied - Bass - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts
0:15:45 Aria – Alto - But who may abide the Day of his coming?
0:19:45 Chorus - And he shall purify the Sons of Levi

SCENE III
0:22:26 Recitative - Alto - Behold, a Virgin shall conceive
0:22:53 Aria - Alto & Chorus - O thou that tellest good Tidings to Zion
0:28:11 Recitative, accompanied - Bass - For behold, Darkness shall cover the Earth
0:29:56 Aria - Bass - The People that walked in Darkness have seen a great Light
0:33:21 Chorus - For unto us a Child is born

SCENE IV
0:37:26 Pifa (“Pastoral Symphony”)
0:38:25 Recitative - Soprano - There were Shepherds abiding in the Field
0:38:39 Arioso - Soprano - And lo, the Angel of the Lord came upon them
0:38:59 Recitative - Soprano - And the Angel said unto them, Fear not
0:39:45 Recitative, accompanied - Soprano - And suddenly there was with the Angel a Multitude of the heav’nly Host
0:40:03 Chorus - Glory to God in the Highest

SCENE V
0:42:19 Aria - Soprano - Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Sion
0:47:12 Recitative - Alto - Then shall the Eyes of the Blind be open’d
0:47:48 Duet – Alto & Soprano - He shall feed his Flock like a shepherd
0:53:32 Chorus - His Yoke is easy, his Burthen is light

PART TWO (0:55:46)

SCENE I
0:55:55 Chorus - Behold the Lamb of God
0:59:01 Aria - Alto - He was despised and rejected of Men
1:09:17 Chorus - Surely he hath borne our Griefs
1:10:58 Chorus - And with His Stripes we are healed
1:12:48 Chorus - All we, like Sheep, have gone astray
1:16:31 Recitative, accompanied - Tenor - All they that see him laugh him to scorn
1:17:14 Chorus - He trusted in God
1:19:28 Recitative, accompanied - Tenor - Thy Rebuke hath broken his Heart
1:21:23 Aria - Tenor - Behold, and see

SCENE II
1:22:51 Recitative, accompanied - Soprano - He was cut off out of the Land of the Living
1:23:13 Aria - Soprano - But Thou didst not leave his Soul in Hell

SCENE III
1:25:59 Chorus - Lift up your Heads

SCENE IV
1:28:56 Recitative - Tenor - Unto which of the Angels said He at any time
1:29:13 Chorus - Let all the Angels of God worship Him

SCENE V
1:30:49 Aria - Alto - Thou art gone up on High
1:33:52 Chorus - The Lord gave the Word
1:35:03 Aria - Soprano - How beautiful are the Feet of them that preach the gospel of peace
1:37:26 Chorus - Their Sound is gone out into all Lands

SCENE VI
1:38:53 Aria - Bass - Why do the Nations so furiously rage together?
1:40:18 Chorus - Let us break their Bonds asunder

SCENE VII
1:42:12 Recitative - Tenor - He that dwelleth in Heaven shall laugh them to scorn
1:42:27 Aria - Tenor - Thou shalt break them with a Rod of Iron
1:44:33 Chorus - Hallelujah!

PART THREE (1:48:11)

SCENE I
1:48:23 Aria - Soprano - I know that my Redeemer liveth
1:55:27 Chorus - Since by Man came Death, by Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead

SCENE II
1:57:25 Recitative, accompanied - Bass - Behold, I tell you a Mystery
1:57:59 Aria - Bass - The trumpet shall sound

SCENE III
2:06:40 Recitative - Alto - Then shall be brought to pass the Saying that is written
2:07:00 Duet - Alto and Tenor - O Death, where is thy Sting?
2:08:08 Chorus - But Thanks be to God
2:10:50 Aria - Alto - If God is for us, who can be against us?

SCENE IV
2:15:21 Chorus - Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
2:18:39 Chorus - Amen.

2:23:02 CREDITS

1753 Foundling Hospital Version (https://americanbach.org/media/About_Messiah.html)
Filmed in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral

Audio Recording: https://americanbach.org/recordings/Handel-Messiah/

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