Handel: Messiah (1751 Version) (Edward Higginbottom) (Naxos)

Part I: Sinfonia
Part I: Accompanied recitative: Comfort ye, my people (Tenor)
Part I: Aria: Every valley shall be exalted (Tenor)
Part I: Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
Part I: Accompanied recitative: Thus saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass)
Part I: Aria: But who may abide the day of His coming (Countertenor)
Part I: Chorus: And He shall purify
Part I: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son (Countertenor)
Part I: Aria and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (Countertenor)
Part I: Accompanied recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (Bass)
Part I: Aria: The people that walked in darkness (Bass)
Part I: Chorus: For unto us a Child is born
Part I: Pifa
Part I: Accompanied recitative: There were shepherds abiding in the field (Trebles)
Part I: Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
Part I: Aria: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (Tenor)
Part I: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened (Countertenor)
Part I: Aria: He shall feed His flock like a shepherd (Countertenor, Treble)
Part I: Chorus: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light
Part II: Chorus: Behold, the Lamb of God
Part II: Aria: He was despised and rejected of men (Countertenor)
Part II: Chorus: Surely He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
Part II: Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed
Part II: Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray
Part II: Accompanied recitative: All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn (Tenor)
Part II: Chorus: He trusted in God that He would deliver Him
Part II: Accompanied recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (Tenor)
Part II: Aria: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow (Tenor)
Part II: Accompanied recitative: He was cut off out of the land of the living (Treble)
Part II: Aria: But thou didst not leave His soul in hell (Treble)
Part II: Chorus: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
Part II: Recitative: Unto which of the angels said He at any time (Tenor)
Part II: Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship Him
Part II: Aria: Thou art gone up on high (Countertenor)
Part II: Chorus: The Lord gave the word
Part II: Aria: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace (Treble)
Part II: Chorus: Their sound is gone out into all lands
Part II: Aria: Why do the nations so furiously rage together (Bass)
Part II: Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
Part II: Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn (Tenor)
Part II: Aria: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (Tenor)
Part II: Chorus: Hallelujah
Part III: Aria: I know that my redeemer liveth (Treble)
Part III: Chorus: Since by man came death
Part III: Accompanied recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery (Bass)
Part III: Aria: The trumpet shall sound (Bass)
Part III: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written (Countertenor)
Part III: Duet: O death, where is thy sting (Countertenor and Tenor)
Part III: Chorus: But thanks be to God
Part III: Aria: If God is for us, who can be against us (Countertenor)
Part III: Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Part III: Chorus: Amen