Messiah CD

Apollo's Fire and their founder/director Jeannette Sorrell present a unique dramatic approach to Handel's Messiah: 2 CDs plus a DVD exploring the work as theatrical entertainment.

Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo's Fire celebrate the holiday season with a unique release of Handel's Messiah: a 3-disc set including 2 CDs and a DVD, presenting a dramatic approach which explores the work as the theatrical entertainment which Handel intended – an oratorio being a dramatic work, and Handel's bold declaration that Messiah was "A Sacred Oratorio." While the theatrical/spiritual duality caused criticism in Handel's lifetime, Sorrell believes it is one of the key reasons the work continues to speak so directly to modern audiences. The DVD includes footage from rehearsals, concerts and recording sessions, interviews with soloists, principal players and Sorrell.

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Part the First: Sinfony
• 2. Comfort ye
• 3. Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
• 4. Behold, and see
• 5. He was cut off
• 6. But thou didst not leave
• 7. Thou art gone up on high
• 8. The Lord gave the word
• 9. How beautiful are the feet
• 10. Why do the nations
• 11. Let us break their bonds
• 12. He that dwelleth in heaven 13. Thou shalt break them
• 13. Pifa
• 14. Hallelujah
• 15. Part the Third: I know that my Redeemer liveth
• 16. Since by man came death
• 17. Behold, I tell you a mystery
• 18. The trumpet shall sound
• 19. Then shall be brought to pass
• 20. O Death, where is thy sting?
• 21. But thanks be to God
• 22. If God be for us
• 23. Worthy is the Lamb
• 24. Surely, He hath borne our griefs
• 25. And with His stripes
• 26. All we like sheep

Disc 2

• 1. All they that see Him
• 2. He trusted in God
• 3. Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
• 4. Behold, and see
• 5. He was cut off
• 6. But thou didst not leave
• 7. Thou art gone up on high
• 8. The Lord gave the word
• 9. How beautiful are the feet
• 10. Why do the nations
• 11. Let us break their bonds
• 12. He that dwelleth in heaven
• 13. Thou shalt break them
• 14. Hallelujah
• 15. Part the Third: I know that my Redeemer liveth
• 16. Since by man came death
• 17. Behold, I tell you a mystery
• 18. The trumpet shall sound
• 19. Then shall be brought to pass
• 20. O Death, where is thy sting?
• 21. But thanks be to God
• 22. If God be for us
• 23. Worthy is the Lamb