"The one who sings prays twice" This choir has prayed 100 times! Fabulous!

glory to your name my lord and my saviour , I am a sinner , forgive me for being ignorant , I surrender to you Jesus

Magnificent. A choral trilogy. "Whorty is the Lamb", a majestic prelude, "Blessing and honor", a triumphant fugue and "Amen", a sublime fugue ... the subject is divided, subdivided, inverted, enriched with counter-subjects and subordinated to many ingenious and latent purposes of harmony, melody and imitation.

I also love this section more than the Hallelujah Chorus. Just think about the rapture he was going through when he was composing this.

And to think Hallelujah from the same oratorio gets more concert performances. THIS IS THE GRANDEST of the choruses from Messiah. Such an emotional experience for me everytime I hear it!! As far as theme goes it is the resolution of all that has come before it from the prophecies to the fullfillment in scripture. There is no way to leave a performance of this piece in or out of context with the oratorio and not feel uplifted and moved in spirit.

Agreed. A four minute fugue on a single word. A word that caps the entire edifice that is Messiah.

When you have a two hour opera on the life of Christ, you need four minutes of saying Amen to make it all worth it.

I love the trumpets in this version, so clear and brilliant... Few composers before or since Handel used the trumpets anywhere near as effectively as he did in Messiah

The protracted "amen" -- particularly measure 141 to the end -- is one of the most sublime passages in music. Whew!

Just singing the bass part along this video gives me chills. I can't imagine how it must feel like to sing or play it live.

amen, handel was just something, the amen part just drives me crazy. wow! so lovely

Those timpani rolls toward the end! Love it!!

I am happy ...excited...humbled. This soothes.and heals....eve of my 50th birthday....I can't thank the Lord enough for how far he has brought me. Forever grateful for His love .. mercies and His abundant blessings on me.I will continue to exalt His name forever and ever....Amen

if nothing else, this music will bring you closer to God.

Sublime music.The first time i heard it, it was like the very heavens were open, and i could see God right through them. Dear God, thank you for giving George Handel the gift of expressing heavenly music in human language.....!!!

This is the "Show Piece"of all Baroque choral fugues ever written. To me, the most "magical" moment occurs when the chorus begins Descending while the trumpets Ascend.

Händel is the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

As a composer, I listen to this masterpiece closing of the Messiah in utter awe. I follow this excerpted score and fathom how such heavenly vibration could manifest in a human mind. Those who would doubt the existence of a higher power are welcomed to allow their own excellence the ample space and freedom that Handel did in the blessed moments he was led to give birth to this creation.

I love Jesus.💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖

One of the few tunes that actually make me cry. Especially the last minute.

The Greatest Choir Masterpiece of ALL time, in my opinion! I was a part of a choir that performed the full Libretto of Handel's Messiah (minus a few soloist pieces) for a few years in a row. My most fondest singing memories. Love the richness and complexity of the parts! Melts my heart every time!

This is why Worthy is the Lamb is my favorite chorus from 'Messiah' - utterly stupendous.

During the 1870's and beyond this piece was used a ' set piece ' in brass band competitions in places such as Belle Vue in Manchester transcribed by Charles Godfrey of the Household Guards Band . ( Amongst other arrangements of his ). Legend has it anything up to 50,000 people would attend the outdoor contests and the audience would save up for months to go and support their own village or works band . Thank you for sharing , best wishes , Mark .

This piece is wonderful especially the Amen wow

My high school chorus sang this piece to conclude our spring concert over 40 years. Still remember it like it was yesterday. Beautiful piece.

One of the most beautiful pieces ever written.

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honor, glory and power be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, forever and ever. Amen.

I am grateful today for what Jesus (the Lamb of God) has done and is doing for me today. He is worthy of honor and glory. This song sums it up very well. Thanks for posting.

The first time I head the Messiah performed professionally was in Philadelphia at the Academy of Music. I will never forget when they came to this last piece and did Amen. It was as if the place exploded with a sound of music and song that I never heard before or since. I will always remember the total silence before the last Amen. I have since gone to other presentations even in Philadelphia but nothing compares to that last Amen I heard years ago.

Worthy is the Lamb is so special to me the Lamb that was slain and who arose from his death is so near to my heart. If I listen to Bach's Mattew passion and Heinrich Schützes. ' Die Historia von der Auferstehung ' With Bach it is different he is not only an onlooker but who identified emotional for e.g when Christ is scorched. He brings this passion to the struggle of Christ in my living room it is so vivid that is I am in the Garden of Gethsemane and I am there where he is brought before the High Priest scorned man handled hit by fists and it is as if so vivid Pilate with all his confusion and indecisiveness is before me I share his ordeal. I suffer from Christ when he was scourged and had to take his cross and when he is crucified and nailed to the cross I share his pain and I very win my heart when he in his prayer of desolation Hee prayers. My God! My God Why has Thou forsaken me. I experience terrible bouts of anxiety and depression I also prayed. ' My Go9d why have tHou forsaken me I with great relief. It is finished I am with Joseph of Arimathea when he takes the body of Christ and with great carry buries him. When I hear this Worthy is the Lamb that is slain I see the scenario of t his passion, I am over overwhelmed when I hear that the Lamb which was slain was worthy of praise, glory, and honor and that forever and forever, ye forever! Amen! Amen Amen This much God bless Sincerely yours R. Louis Engelbrecht

Am I the only one who imagines, when they listen to this piece (and the Messiah as a whole), that this piece was not actually written? As if it has always existed? I remember attending a live performance of this, and I thinking that the Messiah was among the closest things to perfection that anyone has ever produced.

With the grace of God, I had the opportunity to sing The Messiah An Oratorio - For Four - Part Chorus of Mixed Voices, Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass Solo And Piano by G.F. Handel, with the UPeU Polyphonic Choir and when singing this song "Worthy Is the lamb" I felt a lump in my throat and wanted to cry, listening to the lyrics and the chords of the instruments of the symphony orchestra. How beautiful it is to worship God.

Show me the way I should go, Lord, because I offer my life up to you. Jesus, our companion, when we are driven to despair, help us, through the friends and strangers we encounter on our path, to know you as our refuge, our way, our truth and our life. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning is now and will be forever. Amen.

I cry everytime I here this powerful song

One of the most fun bass lines of all time!

A genius, Handel was, and a godly man, he must've been. To the best of his ability, utilizing the talent given him by God, he composed the chorus from the book of Revelation, where the saints sing praises of adoration to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And to think, this masterpiece won't even compare to the actual music in our Father's kingdom on that day. Worthy is the Lamb!

I can't help singing aloud robustly, with my fellow basses. I can remember singing in the dormitory while I listened to LP's, and this one really got to the people around me ;)

I know I will be on my knee.

1:41 Blessing and honour, glory and power, be unto Him be unto Him

I go to see a live performance of the Messiah every year at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI. It is a fabulous performance that gives me chills many times throughout, especially the amen.

At Ohlange High School KZN South Africa this song was beautifully sung either by the Ralph Khumalo-conducted school choir or the visiting Amazwi KaZulu-Dubazana conducted choir and this was during the reign of principal Mr. S.D. Ngcobo.

Glory be to God and to the Lamb! Amen!

I did this in 1986, when I was in secondary school. I was 16 at the time. I'm 50 next year, so this brings back more than a few memories!

Handel never made a farthing on Messiah during his life time, (not that he needed to) aside from the Dublin premier, all later performances were for the benefit of the Foundling Hospital, his favorite charity. Unlike Bach, Handel achieved great fame in his lifetime, and his fame outlived him. When Franz Joseph Haydn visited London, he attended a performance of Messiah at Westminster Abbey. At the Hallelujah Chorus, Haydn broke out in tears and said, "He is the master of us all."

This music is as inspired as the Word itself. And to think that it was written entirely within a month is almost beyond belief. Truly nothing is impossible with God.

Glory to the Lord for every single sound of this melody so inspiring ,and being so moved , so soothing.To thee O mighty God all glory.

The first time I heard this, I cried! That organ in the beginning! And just the words! Yes, the Lamb is Worthy! Amen!

Best version!!

This is the greatest major choral work ever written and has been such since 1741!

how can mortal man write something this beautiful? my mom used to take me to ft. worth to see this when i was 3. i am 51 now and it still gives me goosebumps every time i hear it.

Okay but the beginning with the singing and the music sends chills everytime

Love the trumpets support of the chorus...

The Amen passage is simply beautiful.

Love this and especially the Amen. Extraordinary when near the end the tenors hit that high A and they are singing at pitch above the alto line which is above the soprano line.

Oh yes, one of the finest pieces of choral music from the Baroque era. Taken as a whole it is essentially a fugue but the fugue is not complete in the voices alone. Essentially a canon between the parts. The strength of this must be the way Handel reverses the run on the tonic - dominant theme in bar 141 from the sop's top A - what a climax - and then he answers it following the same idea but from a top G to conclude with a dom 7th chord in the 3rd inversion (what genius) and finally D major..

Standing ovation to this Amen, it takes my breath away. Glory to God 🎉

What a brilliant idea to publish this masterpiece with scores. Very useful to practice at home.

My schools choir does The Messiah with the alumni every year before christmastime, and this was my last year singing it because I am dropping out of choir (Its a horrible program at my school) But this and "And the Glory of the Lord" are my favorites

"He is the master of us all"...

Surely this man Handel was blessed by God.

Thank you for uploading this and allowing us to sing and pray with the most heartfelt music. The comments are wonderful too.

Nothing is sweeter than good music 🎶

One day we shall all be with the Lamb!!!!!!!!!!!

God is the same today as he was yesterday and shall be forever, Glory be to our God Most High who has seated us with Christ on the throne of all authority in heaven and earth if we beleive in Him. Unending praise belongs to Him

Thanks for the score. it was great to read the music. Haven't sung since grad school. Awesome. Oh course I could sing back then.

For sure my lord Jesus christ the lamb is worthy for worship and praise and to be king, amen

This is God's gift to the world!!!

The Choir of St. Benedict's College Colombo is probably the only school in Sri Lanka who has performed "Worthy is the Lamb" and the "Amen" chorus. Performed for the first time by them in 1999. Repeated in 2012 at St. Andrew's Scots Kirk on the 01st of July.

Why am I crying!?!?

Praise Jesus Christ, the Lamb that was slain

Awesome heaven will be glorious

Without the sacrifice of Jesus Christ gates of heaven would have been closed forever.

this is so glorious.... i love it...

I imagine that haendel saw the skies open and hear the angels sing. And he just transcribed

Well certainly it comes not much better than this in 1741, LadyLeeL3! Listen to bar 58 to 61 especially the altos (from 3.07 to 3.13) finest baroque counterpoint you will find with magnificent effect! Don't start me on Amen!...

Wonderful. I love seeing the music there and being able to join in. I would prefer the next page to come up slightly sooner - I obviously look ahead somehow when I sight sing but it was certainly not spoilt by that. Handle is my favourite composer, more even than Bach.

# you done a lot of work in putting it up like this, many thanks, it's much appreciated

I have the CD, its conducted by John Elliot Gardiner and sung by the Monteverdi Choir

Blessing, honour, and glory be to the king of allll the kings!!!

24 days while fasting continuously. That is why this work has such power. I was told it should have taken six months to just copy it. Don't forget they didn't have computer paper yet. It was very controversial. It was "hard rock" for its day when music was totally structured and considered a branch of mathematics. . The first time it was played he was in the audience. He saw some being flying toward him during the performance and claimed it was an angel, and caused quite a stir. When you honour God, he honours you.

Actually, after the first fugal entrances are concluded, the expansions of the text is not a fugue, but a quadruple canon . The only one I have ever seen. The bass is in canon with the sop. and alto and tenor , while the tenor is in canon with the bass also and sop. while the alto is in canon with the bass tenor and sop. and finally the sop is in canon with bass tenor alto. When Handel simplifies choral parts the missing parts are in the strings. Utterly the height of all choral music.

I always think of the Sun rising in the east.. Yes Worthy is the Lamb and sun/son of God

A - men, A - men (It is settled in Heaven and on Earth and there's nothing anyone can do about that...for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it).

Worthy! Worthy! Worthy! us the Lamb which was slain to receive power honor wisdom and glory. So will it be when heaven we with the angels and all host will sing the song of the Lamb who was slaughtered? Yes, l am looking forward to joining the song of the Lamb. Yes, blessed who yearn home, yes he will bring me home with all who yearn home, Yes, our Lord Christ will see us home. He will indeed because he loves us., has sacrificed his life on his own life to save us, and because he is loyal. The promises of God are Yes and Amen in Christ, Mountains may tumble, hillocks be flatened but God's loyal love will be forever, forever,. forever and forever Amen Amen Amen Worthy is the Lamb to receive power, riches, and glory. Amen! Forever and forever. Alleluia! Amen! This much God bless Sincerely yours in Christ our Saviour R. Louis Engelbrecht

Outstanding recording of the Amen--probably my favorite piece from Messiah. Thank you SO much for posting the sheet music! Brought me right back to singing it in choir and how exhiliarating an experience it was. =)

Handel my childhood amen, Bye for now love Alan 👨‍🏫️

singing the messiah for a Christmas concert and its my high school choir and we are amazing at it!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant!!!!!!!

To those asking why it sounds down a half step: this is actually how it originally sounded back in the Baroque period. This is a Baroque-style ensemble, and they are therefore using the standard tuning of that time, which is A=415, which makes it sound a half step lower than if they used today's standard tuning (A=440). Hope that helps :)

Literally the best song of all time! 2:55 is absolutely stunning!

All the best to you and yours "Morphthing1".

Totally beautiful!!!!

This reminds me of the OAC youth choir back home

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by his blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honour, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. (Revelation 5:12-14) Read more: Handel George Frideric - 53. Chorus: Worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Excellent rendition!

this piece is magical..........

Thank you so much for the scores! :)

It’s disturbing to know that in the human mind taking the life of another creature is the representation of appreciation and gratitude.

Muito obrigado por publicar a partitura com a melodia tão bem executadas, muito obrigado!

Final Amen sounds like a mix of fugue and canon! 😲 Am i right? So amazing 👏🏻