Performance Details

• Date Saturday, December 8, 2018
• Time 7:30 pm
• Venue Carpenter Theatre
• Conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin
• Guest Artist Richmond Symphony Chorus
• Handel Messiah
• Part One 1. Sinfonia
  2. Arioso: Comfort ye, my people (tenor)
  3. Air: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted (tenor)
  4. Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
  5. Recitative: Thus saith the Lord (bass)
  6. Air: But who may abide the day of his coming? (alto)
  7. Chorus: And he shall purify
  8. Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (alto)
  9. Air and Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion (alto and chorus)
  10. Arioso: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth (bass)
  11. Air: The people that walked in darkness (bass)
  12. Chorus: For unto us a child is born
  13. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
  14a. Recitative: There were shepherds abiding in the field (soprano)
  14b. Recitative: And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them (soprano)
  15. Recitative: And the angel said unto them (soprano)
  16. Recitative: And suddenly there was with the angel (soprano)
  17. Chorus: Glory to God
  18. Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (soprano)
  19. Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind (alto)
  20. Air: He shall feed his flock (alto)
  Air: Come unto Him, all ye that labor (soprano)
  21. Chorus: His yoke is easy, and His burthen is light
  
• Part Two 22. Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
  23. Air: He was despised (alto)
  24. Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs
  25. Chorus: And with his stripes we are healed
  26. Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray
  27. Recitative: All they that see Him laugh him to scorn (tenor)
  28. Chorus: He trusted in God
  29. Recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart (tenor)
  30. Arioso: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow (tenor)
  31. Recitative: He was cut off out of the land of the living (tenor)
  32. Air: But thou didst not leave his soul in hell (tenor)
  33. Chorus: Lift up your heads, O ye gates!
  36. Air: Thou art gone up on high (alto)
  38. Air: How beautiful are the feet of them (soprano)
  40. Air: Why do the nations so furiously rage together? (bass)
  41. Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
  42. Recitative: He that dwelleth in Heaven (tenor)
  43. Air: Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron (tenor)
  44. Chorus: Hallelujah
• Part Three 45. Air: I know that my redeemer liveth (soprano)
  46. Chorus: Since by man came death
  47. Recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery (bass)
  48. Air: The trumpet shall sound (bass)
  53. Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb that was slain/Blessing and honor/Amen