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Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, no. 8. Recitative “Behold, a virgin shall conceive” (Alto)

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Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive (alto recitative)	Catherine Robbin, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman	0:22
Contralto Recitative / Behold, A Virgin Shall Concieve	Alfreda Hodgson, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis	0:25
Messiah, Part 1: Nos. 8-9. Recitative & Air alto & Chorus. "Behold, a virgin shall conceive... O thou That tellest good tidings to Zion"	Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus, Anna Reynolds, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner	6:01
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I. “Behold, a virgin shall conceive – O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion”	Simon Preston, Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Carolyn Watkinson, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood	6:15
Messiah: Recitative. Behold, a virgin	Yoshikazu Mera, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki	0:30
Messiah: Behold, a virgin shall conceive	Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Helmuth Rilling	0:28
Messiah: 8. Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive / 9. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion	Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus, Robert Shaw	5:44
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, VIIb. Recitative (Alto) "Behold, a virgin shall conceive" / VIII. Air (Alto) "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion", Chorus "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"	Andreas Scholl, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie	6:02
Messiah: Part I. Recitative "Behold a airgin shall conceive"	Florence Quivar, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis	0:26
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, Scene III. Recitative "Behold, a Virgin shall conceive"	Bernarda Fink, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh	0:26
Messiah: Part I, No. 7 Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive" / Nos. 8-9 Air and Chorus "O thou that tellest good tidings"	Helen Watts, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis	6:39
Messiah: Behold! a Virgin Shall Conceive	Royal Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	0:25
Recitative: Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive	Georg Friedrich Händel	0:35
Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	Martha Lipton, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy	0:37
Messiah: Part I: No. 7. Recitative (mezzo-soprano) "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner	0:27
Messiah, Part I: VIII. Recitative (contralto) "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	Anne Sofie von Otter, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock	0:30
Messiah: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	Serge Baudo, The Royal Music College, Edinburgh	0:30
Messiah: Part I. Recitative "Behold, a virgin" (alto)	Hilary Summers, The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury	0:23
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, VIIb. Recitative (Alto) "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	Catherine Robbin, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner	0:28
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, VIIb. Recitative (Alto) "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	Yoshikazu Mera, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki	0:29
Messiah: Recitative: Behold a Virgin shall conceive	Annie Gill, Dunedin Consort, John Butt	0:19
Messiah: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Süsskind	7:36
Messiah: Behold, a virgin shall conceive	The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury	0:24
Messiah: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive”; “O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion”	Andrew Parrott, The Taverner Choir, Consort & Players	6:05
Messiah: Part I: 8. Behold, a Virgin	Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox	0:26
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I. Recitative: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive” (alto) / Air: “O thou that tellest good tidings” (alto)	London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter	5:31
Messiah: Part I, no. 8: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son	Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom	0:24
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I: VIII: Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son" (alto)	Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt	0:32
Messiah: Behold a Virgin Shall Conceive	Norma Procter, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult	0:35
Messiah: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	James Bowman, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir David Willcocks	0:32
Messiah: Part I. VIII. Contralto recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	Orchestra of The Sixteen, Harry Christophers	0:26
Messiah: Part I. VIII. Alto "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	London Symphony Orchestra, Sara Mingardo & Sir Colin Davis	0:23
Part I: Recit - “Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive”	Norma Procter, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent	0:32
Messiah, HWV 56: Behold, a virgin shall conceive	Marjorie Thomas, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent	0:33
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, no. 8. Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive / 9. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion	Smoke Rise Orchestra, Smoke Rise Choir & Danny Vancil	6:31
Messiah: Part I No. 8 Behold, a virgin shall conceive	Yvonne Minton, English Chamber Orchestra, Johannes Somary	0:31
Messiah, HWV 56: First Part. Recitative. “Denn sich', eine Jungfrau wird empfangen” (Alto)	Brigitte Fassbaender, Radio‐Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sir Neville Marriner	0:27
Messiah, HWV 56: First Part. Recitative. “Denn sich', eine Jungfrau wird empfangen” (Alto)	Brigitte Fassbaender, Radio‐Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Sir Neville Marriner	0:27
Messiah, HWV 56: Behold, a virgin (Recitative, countertenor)	Paul Esswood, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Anders Öhrwall	0:30
Behold, A Virgin	Apollo’s Fire, Jeannette Sorrell	0:24
Messiah Recitativo	Jochen Kowalski, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner	4:51
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, O thou that tellest good Tidings to Zion	American Bach Soloists, Jeffrey Thomas	5:19
Messiah, Part I. "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter	0:23
Behold a virgin shall conceive ... O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion	Scholars Baroque Ensemble	6:00
Messiah, HWV 56: 7. Recitative: "Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive"	Charles Humphries, Academy of London, Peter Marschik	0:23
Messiah: Part 1: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son (alto)	Iestyn Davies, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton	0:23
Messiah: Recit: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (contralto)	Catherine Wyn‐Rogers, BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers	0:30
Messiah: I, No. 8: Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"	Alice Coote, Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury	0:25
Part I: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Alto)	Matthew White, Tafelmusik, Ivars Taurins	0:22
The Messiah: Recitative: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	Robert Shaw Orchestra, Robert Shaw	0:28
Messiah: Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive (Recitative - Altus)	New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein	0:38
Messiah: Behold, a virgin shall conceive	Musica Sacra, Richard Westenburg	0:28
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I, no. 8. Recitative "Behold, a virgin shall conceive" / no. 9. Air & Chorus "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion arise"	Patricia Bardon, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs	5:28
Messiah: Part One: Recitative (Mezzo-Soprano): Behold, a Virgin	The Choir & Orchestra of Pro Christe, Timothy Dean	0:22
Messiah: Recitative: 'Behold, a virgin shall conceive' (Alto)	Grace Hoffman, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer	0:29
Messiah: Part I. No. 7 Chorus “And He shall purify” / Recitative: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive” (alto)	Arnold Schönberg Chor, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt	3:18
Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	[unknown]	0:27
Messiah, HWV 56 Pt. 1: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive... O Thou That Tellest	Huguette Tourangeau, Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge	5:25
Messiah: Behold a virgin shall conceive	Helen Watts, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Süsskind	0:37
Messiah: Behold, a virgin shall conceive - Recitativo / O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion - Aria & Coro	Hans–Peter Rauscher, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Hanna Schwarz, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Colin Davis	6:14
Messiah, HWV 56: VIII. Recitative (Contralto) "Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive" - IX. Air (Contralto) and Chorus: "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings"	La Chapelle Rhénane, Benoît Haller	5:57
Messiah, HWV 56, Part 1: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive" (Alto)	Emmanuelle Haïm, Le Concert d'Astrée	0:25
Part One: No. 8 Recitative (alto)	[unknown]	0:40
Messiah: 7. Behold, a virgin shall conceive. Recitative (Contralto)	Anna Reynolds, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter	0:36
Messiah: 8. O thou that tellest good tidings. Aria (Contralto)	Anna Reynolds, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter	4:53
Recitative: Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive	Jan DeGaetani, Eastman Philharmonia, Donald Neuen	0:27
Le Messie Part 1: No. 7 Récitatif: Behold, a virgin shall conceive	Janet Baker, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras	0:31
Messiah, HWV 56: Part I: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive (Alto)	Scholars Baroque Ensemble	6:00
Messiah, HWV 56: Behold, a virgin shall conceive - O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion - O thou that tellest	Patricia Spence, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan	5:36
Messiah: Part 1. Recitative (alto): Behold, a virgin	Ulla Kudsk Jensen, Akademisk Orkester, Morten Topp	0:27
Messiah: Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive; O Thou That Tellest	Arcady, Ronald Beckett	6:02
Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Behold! A Virgin Shall Conceive	Smithsonian Concerto Grosso, Antal Doráti	0:25
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: Behold a virgin shall conceive - Recitative	Orchestra of The Sixteen, Harry Christophers	0:31
Messiah: Part One: Scene Three: No. 8. Recitative for Alto	Andrea Saposnik, Trinity Church Orchestra, Owen Burdick	0:27
The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive"	Damien Guillon, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall	0:25
First Part: Recitative (Behold, a virgin shall conceive)	Collegium 1704, Václav Luks	0:19
Messiah Part 1, no. 8: Recitative - Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive / no. 9: Song - O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion	Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood	6:15
Le Messie: n° 7 - Récitatif d'alto	Helen Watts, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
"Messiah" Highlights- Behold! A vergin shall conceive	University of Maryland Chorus	0:25
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 8, Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle	0:30
Messiah: Recitative. Mezzo-soprano: 'Behold! A virgin shall conceive'	Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis	0:30
The Messiah, Part 1 (No. 8): Recitative (Alto), Behold, a virgin shall conceive	Alexandra Sherman, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker	0:29
Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	George Frideric Handel, Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra & Oregon Bach Festival Choir	0:28
Messiah: Część Pierwsza: Behold, a virgin shall conceive	La Tempesta, Jakub Burzyński	0:28
Recitative (Alto): Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive \| Air (Alto) And Chorus: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion	Daniel Taylor, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius, Kammerchor Stuttgart	5:59
7. Recitativo (Alto/Alt) : Behold A Virgin Shall Conceive	Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman	0:21
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1 (1742 Version): No. 8, Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	Benno Schachtner, Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann	0:21
Behold a Virgin shall conceive...Recit. for Alto / O Thou that tellest...Air for Alto & Chorus	Gulf Coast Chorale	6:16
Behold a Virgin shall conceive...Recit. for Alto / Thou that tellest...Air for Alto & Chorus	Gulf Coast Chorale	6:20
Behold, a virgin shall conceive	The Lagos City Chorale & Orchestra conducted by Emeka Nwokedi	0:25
Recitative (Contralto): "Behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive..."	Handel	0:46
Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	Apollo’s Fire & Jeannette Sorrell	0:26
Messiah, HWV 56: Part the First: Recitative. “Behold, a virgin shall conceive”	Alex Potter, The English Concert, John Nelson	0:26
Messiah: Nos. 1–9	Chorus of St. Martin‐in‐the‐Fields, Elly Ameling, Gwynne Howell, Philip Langridge, Anna Reynolds, The Academy of St. Martin‐in‐the‐Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 8, Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive	George Frideric Handel	0:26