The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative Accompagnato "For, Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth"

Recording identifiers

ISRC

CH4211900154

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2019-11-22

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x1442d3d4553411d1637f1dc7f757259159f08b9c67fa7254f0d50bd991606b00

Copyright registration time

2026-07-30T12:38:28+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-30T12:51:24Z

Bitcoin block

960259

Canonical record hash

sha256:94007aa27bf21dd42a02715bca7cfa28bce310a1e0a15b306302b40a3efb4a4f

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2019, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

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