The Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: Recitative "There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field"

Recording identifiers

ISRC

CH4211900158

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2019-11-22

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x1b0847c20c2dc924accd508227439d85d1e28faaa14b40655c745958cc3b9f73

Copyright registration time

2026-07-07T08:16:23+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:20:19Z

Bitcoin block

957118

Canonical record hash

sha256:5a99a0b89b42a6eed6128064a78a7d996f7d1d4ff53e3ec81dd72242d7878e10

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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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