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Bass Recitative / Behold, I Tell You A Mystery

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On The Messiah

1987 · 49 tracks

01Overture4:03
01Chorus / Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs2:12
02Chorus / And With His Stripes We Are Healed2:36
02Tenor Recitative / Comfort Ye My People3:01
03Tenor Aria / Every Valley Shall Be Exalted3:47
03Chorus / All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray3:45
04Chorus / And The Glory Of The Lord3:02
04Tenor Recitative / All They That See Him, Laugh Him To Scorn0:48
05Bass Recitative / Thus Saith The Lord1:37
05Chorus / He Trusted In God That He Would Deliver Him2:19
06Tenor Recitative / Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart1:51
06Bass Aria / But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming?5:07
07Chorus / And He Shall Conceive2:41
07Tenor Arioso / Behold, And See If There Be Any Sorrow1:35
08Tenor Recitative / He Was Cut Off Out Of The Land Of The Living0:20
08Contralto Recitative / Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive0:26
09Contralto Aria And Chorus / O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion6:20
09Tenor Aria / But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell2:47
10Chorus / Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates3:35
10Bass Recitative / For, Behold, A Darkness Shall Cover The Earth2:17
11Soprano Aria / How Beautiful Are The Feet Of Them2:45
11Bass Aria / The People That Walked In Darkness4:02
12Chorus / For Unto Us A Child Is Born4:29
12Chorus / Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands1:54
13Bass Aria / Why Do The Nations So Furiously Rage3:14
13Pastoral Symphony3:38
14Chorus / Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder1:50
14Soprano Recitative / There Were Shepherds Abiding In The Field0:42
15Soprano Recitative / And The Angel Said Unto Them0:41
15Tenor Recitative / He That Dwelleth In Heaven0:17
16Soprano Recitative / And Suddenly There Was With The Angel0:19
16Tenor Aria / Thou Shalt Break Them2:08
17Chorus / Glory To God2:05
17Chorus / Hallelujah!4:11
18Soprano Aria / Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion4:41
18Soprano Aria / I Know That My Redeemer Liveth7:18
19Chorus / Since By Man Came Death2:05
19Contralto Recitative / Then Shall The Eyes Of The Blind Be Opened0:28
20Contralto And Soprano Aria / He Shall Feed His Flock Like A Shepherd6:00
20Bass Recitative / Behold, I Tell You A Mystery0:36
21Bass Aria / The Trumpet Shall Sound4:16
21Chorus / His Yoke Is Easy, And His Burthen Is Light2:23
22Chorus / Behold The Lamb Of God3:19
22Contralto Recitative / Then Shall Be Brought To Pass0:18
23Contralto Aria / He Was Despised4:55
23Contralto And Tenor Duet / O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?1:05
24Chorus / But Thanks Be To God2:13
25Soprano Aria / If God Be For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?5:15
26Chorus / Worthy Is The Lamb3:45