All We Like Sheep is a favorite of many, and for good reason.  It seems to have the best of everything Baroque choral music has to offer, including brilliant polyphony, classic quick tempos and melismatic singing, all building in intensity until it comes to a sudden, intensely slow and introspective ending. At first glance it may seem strange that Handel would take such a sobering concept that we all have gone astray "like sheep," as described in Isaiah 53:6, and put it to music of an almost a giddy nature.  It's almost as if Handel first musically describes the pleasures of "sin for a season," after which the sinner finally

comes face to face with the reality that there is a terrible price to pay for that sin, indeed a price justly ours to pay, but that it has just been laid on Jesus instead.

Audio Practice Files

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Take it to the next level!  See if you can sing your part without it played prominently! All parts played equally: