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The choir and soloists are supported by The English Concert, one of the world’s foremost baroque orchestras, adding a wide palette of instrumental colours in large set pieces like Zadok the Priest as well as in the gently sensual and intimate May no rash intruder, the so-called ‘Nightingale Chorus’, with flutes imitating birdsong. But on this disc of ‘Great Handel Choruses’ the limelight belongs to the choir, and a great choir it is! With its more than 200 active members, The Bach Choir is an institution in the golden British oratorio tradition, its musical directors including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir David Willcocks, and now David Hill, who conducts it on this recording. Counter-tenor Robin Blaze also make a guest appearance, singing the alto solo in The mighty pow’r from Athalia. The latter work is represented by Or let the merry bells, in which the lively soprano solo (sung by Carolyn Sampson), accompanied by a sparkling carillon, is lulled to sleep by the choir. Spanning in time from Zadok the Priest, one of the four Coronation Anthems of 1727, to the aforementioned ‘He saw …’ composed in 1750, this programme consists largely of great moments from Handel’s oratorios, but also from odes such as Alexander’s Feast and L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. That particular piece is of course included on the present disc – as is He saw the lovely youth from Theodora, which Handel himself is reported to have preferred to Hallelujah, and indeed to all of his other choruses. Chorus: "Worthy Is the Lamb.Despite the fact that he wrote a large number of operas and instrumental works, Handel is often perceived as a choral composer – or, more specifically, as the composer of the Hallelujah chorus. Recitativo: "Then Shall Be Brought" - Duet: "O Death Where Is Thy Sting" - Chorus: "But Thanks Be to God"Ģ2 - Messiah: 50. Air: "The Trumpet Shall Sound"Ģ1 - Messiah: 47-49. Accompagnato: "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery"Ģ0 - Messiah: 46. Chorus: "Since By Man Came Death"ġ9 - Messiah: 45. Air: "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"ġ8 - Handel: 44. Recitativo: "He That Dwelleth" & Air: "Thou Shalt Break Them"ġ7 - Messiah: 43. Heres the accompaniment we use now (in the 'Performance' column). Chorus: "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder"ġ5 - Messiah: 40-41. &0183 &32 Weve been singing Handels Messiah once every (or most) Christmas seasons. Air: "Why Do the Nations"ġ4 - Messiah: 39. Chorus: "Their Sound Is Gone Out"ġ3 - Messiah: 38. Air: "How Beautiful Are the Feet"ġ2 - Messiah: 37a. Chorus: "The Lord Gave the Word"ġ1 - Messiah: 36. Air: "Thou Art Gone Up On High"ġ0 - Messiah: 35. Recitativo: "Unto Which of the Angels" - Chorus: "Let All the Angels"ĩ - Messiah: 34a. Chorus: "Lift Up Your Heads"Ĩ - Messiah: 32-33. "He Was Cut Off" - Air: "But Thou Didst Not Leave"ħ - Messiah: 31. Arioso: "Behold and See"Ħ - Messiah: 29-30. Accompagnato: "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"ĥ - Messiah: 28. Chorus: "He Trusted in God"Ĥ - Messiah: 27. Accompagnato: "All They That See Him"ģ - Messiah: 26. Chorus: "Surely He Hath Borne" - "And with His Stripes" - "All We Like Sheep"Ģ - Messiah: 25. "Behold the Lamb of God"ġ - Messiah: 22-24. Duet: "He Shall Feed His Flock"ġ8 - Messiah: 20. Recitative: "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind"ġ6 - Messiah: 18a. Air: "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion"ġ5 - Messiah: 17a. Chorus: "Glory to God in the Highest"ġ4 - Messiah: 16. Recitative: "There Were Shepherds" - Accompagnato: "And Lo, the Angel of the Lord - Recitative: "And the Angel Said Unto Them" - Accompagnato: "And Suddenly"ġ3 - Messiah: 15. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)ġ2 - Messiah: 14. Chorus: "For Unto Us a Child Is Born"ġ1 - Messiah: 13. Accompagnato: "For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover" - "The People that Walk in Darkness"ġ0 - Messiah: 12. Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall - Air - "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings"ĩ - Messiah: 10-11. Chorus: "And He Shall Purify the Sons of Levi"Ĩ - Messiah: 7-9. Air: "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming"ħ - Messiah: 6. Accompagnato: "Thus Saith the Lord"Ħ - Messiah: 5. Chorus: "And the Glory of the Lord"ĥ - Messiah: 4. Air: "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted"Ĥ - Messiah: 3. Accompagnato: "Comfort Ye, My People"ģ - Messiah: 2. Artist: London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davisĭownload Handel: Messiah - London Symphony Orchestra mp3Ģ - Messiah: 1.