Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Lift up your heads, O ye gates"

~ Recording by Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
2.10Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Lift up your heads, O ye gates"3:07George Frideric HandelMessiahHandel; Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler, Samuel Ramey, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew DavisAlbum
2.10Messiah: Part II. Chorus "Lift up your heads, O ye gates"3:07George Frideric HandelMessiahHandel; Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler, Samuel Ramey, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew DavisAlbum
EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19)50999 2 17645 2 3
2.10Messiah, Part Two, no. 30: Chorus: Lift up your heads3:07George Frideric HandelMessiahHandel; Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler, Samuel Ramey, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew DavisAlbumEMI Digital (“EMI” name above an angel sitting on a disc, with the word “DIGITAL” below)CDS-7 49027 2

Relationships

recording engineer:Anton Kwiatkowski (from 1986-12-22 until 1986-12-23)
assistant engineer:Malcolm Harris
producer:Anton Kwiatkowski
choir vocals:Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (from 1986-12-22 until 1986-12-23)
orchestra:Toronto Symphony Orchestra (from 1986-12-22 until 1986-12-23)
conductor:Sir Andrew Davis (conductor, keyboardist, composer, arranger) (from 1986-12-22 until 1986-12-23)
recorded at:Centre in the Square in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (from 1986-12-22 until 1986-12-23)
recording of:Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 33. Chorus “Lift up your heads” (from 1986-12-22 until 1986-12-23)

Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 33. Chorus “Lift up your heads”

composer:George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer) (in 1741)
later versions:Der Messias, K. 572: Teil II, Nr. 25a. Coro: “Machet das Tor weit”
part of:Messiah, HWV 56: Part II (order: 12)
is the basis for:Marche sur un thème de Hændel, op. 15 no. 2 (March on a Theme of Handel)
arrangements:Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 33. Lift up your heads, O ye gates (Goossens-Beecham Edition)
Messiah, HWV 56: Part II. Chorus: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (Wilberg Edition)