Handel: The Messiah, HWV 56 Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations

• Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759): The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I:
• 1 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Sinfony Overture Grave. Allegro moderato 03:03
• 2 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "Comfort ye My People" 02:57
• 3 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "Ev’ry Valley Shall Be Exalted" 03:24
• 4 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "And the Glory of The Lord" 02:48
• 5 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato: Thus Saith The Lord 01:27
• 6 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming? 04:23
• 7 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "And He Shall Purify" 02:32
• 8 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive" 00:24
• 9 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air & Chorus "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion" 05:20
• 10 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "For, Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth" 02:18
• 11 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "The People That Walked in Darkness" 03:07
• 12 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" 04:15
• 13 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Pifa "Pastoral Symphony" 02:37
• 14 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field" 00:41
• 15 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "And, lo, The Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them" 00:32
• 16 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "And the Angel Said Unto Them" 00:19
• 17 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "Glory to God" 02:15
• 18 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion" 04:07
• 19 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind" 00:26
• 20 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Air "He Shall Feed His Flock" 04:47
• 21 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Chorus "His Yoke Is Easy" 02:31
• The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II:
• 22 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God" 03:30
• 23 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "He Was Despised" 09:54
• 24 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs" 01:47
• 25 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "And With His Stripes We Are Healed" 01:38
• 26 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray" 04:23
• 27 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative Accompagnato "All They That See Him, Laugh Him to Scorn" 00:47
• 28 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "He Trusted in God" 02:28
• 29 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative Accompagnato "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart" 02:08
• 30 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Behold, And See if There Be Any Sorrow" 01:24
• 31 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative Accompagnato "He Was Cut Off Out of the Land of the Living" 00:18
• 32 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell" 02:20
• 33 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Lift Up Your Heads, O ye Gates" 03:14
• 34 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative: Unto Which of the Angels Said He at Any Time" 00:25
• 35 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Let All the Angels of God Worship Him" 01:30
• 36 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Thou Art Gone Up on High" 03:06
• 37 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "The Lord Gave the Word" 01:10
• 38 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "How Beautiful Are the Feet" 02:17
• 39 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Their Sound Is Gone Out" 01:25
• 40 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together?" 02:54
• 41 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder" 01:41
• 42 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Recitative "He That Dwelleth in Heaven" 00:15
• 43 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Air "Thou Shalt Break Them" 01:59
• 44 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part II: Chorus "Hallelujah" 03:50
• The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III:
• 45 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Air "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" 06:30
• 46 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Chorus "Since By Man Came Death" 02:29
• 47 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Recitative Accompagnato "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery" 00:32
• 48 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Air "The Trumpet Shall Sound" 09:04
• 49 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Recitative "Then Shall Be Bought to Pass" 00:17
• 50 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Duet "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?" 00:58
• 51 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Chorus "But Thanks Be to God" 02:16
• 52 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Air "If God Be for Us" 05:11
• 53 The Messiah, HWV 56, Part III: Chorus "Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain – Amen" 07:46
• Total Runtime 02:23:39

Info for Handel: The Messiah, HWV 56

It was only natural that Jordi Savall record Händel’s Messiah. His ‘Watermusic’ is already considered a benchmark and he has also signed countless landmark recordings of religious music.

Featuring La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall, Rachel Redmond (soprano), Damien Guillon (counter tenor) Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) Matthias Winckhler (bass).

This new album is the Christmas 2019 must have.

Rachel Redmond, soprano
Damien Guillon, counter-tenor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Matthias Winckhler, bass
Capella Reial de Catalunya
Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall, conductor

Le Concert des Nations
Music is inevitably influenced by the personal circumstances of the person who composed it and by the social and cultural background at the time of its composition. The historical facts of each period, the composers, the instruments, the original intentions and motivations behind each score, comprise the palette for the player of ancient music, the imaginary backdrop for each new project.

Le Concert des Nations orchestra was founded by Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras in 1989 during preparations for the Canticum Beatae Virgine by M.A. Charpentier in order to create an orchestra with period instruments capable of performing a repertoire that would encompass the Baroque to Romanticism (1600-1850). Its name is derived from the work of François Couperin, Les Nations, a concept that represents the meeting of musical tastes and the feeling that Art, in Europe, would always have its own mark, that of the Age of Enlightenment. Directed from the outset by Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations was the first orchestra made up from a majority of musicians from Latin countries (Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Portugal, etc.), all of them being distinguished world specialists in the performance of ancient music on original period instruments and using historical criteria.

Right from the beginning Le Concert des Nations aimed to raise awareness about a historical repertoire of great quality through performances that rigorously respected the original spirit of each work, but performed with a revitalising impulse. Good examples of this are the first recordings of Charpentier, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Handel, Marais, Arriaga, Beethoven, Purcell, Dumanoir… and more recently the recordings made under the Alia Vox label of Lully, Biber, J.S. Bach, Boccherini, Rameau and Vivaldi.

The impact of the works and composers chosen, the recordings made and their performances throughout the main cities and music festivals around the world have earned the orchestra a reputation as one of the best orchestras playing period instruments and one that is capable of engaging with an eclectic and varied repertoire that includes the first music written for orchestra (the orchestra of Louis XIII, 1600-1650) up to the masterpieces of Romanticism and Classicism.

In 1992 Le Concert des Nations made its operatic debut with Una Cosa Rara by Martín i Soler and went on to continue its operatic work with Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, performed for the first time in 1993 and again in 1999, 2001, and 2002 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Gran Teatro Real in Madrid, in Beaune, Vienna and Metz. In 1995 another opera by Martín i Soler was performed in Montpellier, Il Burbero di Buon Cuore and in 2000 Celos aun del Ayre matan by Juan Hidalgo and Calderón de la Barca was performed in a concert version in Barcelona and Vienna. Other notable opera productions are Vivaldi’sFarnace, premièred at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid (2001) and published on CD, and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, which was finally recorded on DVD by the BBC/Opus Arte (2002), as was The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross by F. J. Haydn in a co-production between Element Productions and Alia Vox (2007).

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