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Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha

Year

2008

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

5h 48m 44s

Performers

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Publication Information

Warner Classics International

Songs

1 Handel : Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1 00:04:31
2 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris] 00:05:06
3 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris] 00:04:06
4 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel] 00:01:19
5 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel] 00:04:49
6 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus] 00:02:57
7 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias] 00:01:29
8 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias] 00:03:10
9 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus] 00:02:37
10 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias] 00:04:08
11 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias] 00:03:16
12 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus] 00:04:50
13 Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "All empires" [Chorus] 00:03:39
14 Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "Oh sacred oracles" [Daniel] 00:05:18
15 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel] 00:03:08
16 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus] 00:04:35
17 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar] 00:04:54
18 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris] 00:01:02
19 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris] 00:08:18
20 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "It is the custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris] 00:01:55
21 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus] 00:03:00
22 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar] 00:01:36
23 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar] 00:06:43
24 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus] 00:04:38
25 Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus] 00:06:31
26 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus] 00:05:26
27 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus] 00:00:30
28 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus] 00:02:56
29 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Let the deep bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where is the God" [Chorus] "Help, help the king!" [Chorus, Belshazzar] "Call all my wise men" [Belshazzar] 00:05:46
30 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus] 00:02:42
31 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus] 00:01:33
32 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar] 00:01:44
33 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris] 00:04:41
34 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris] 00:06:24
35 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus] 00:05:29
36 Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "Oh glorious prince!" [Chorus] 00:04:46
37 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris] 00:04:32
38 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel] 00:02:20
39 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger] 00:02:15
40 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus] 00:01:35
41 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony 00:02:14
42 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias] 00:02:14
43 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus] 00:03:02
44 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus] 00:05:16
45 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel] 00:00:49
46 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus] 00:03:32
47 Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger] 00:05:34
48 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Overture - Menuet 00:06:52
49 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "It must be so - or these vile Ammonites" "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" [Zebul] 00:06:45
50 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus] 00:02:46
51 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha] 00:05:07
52 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" [Storgè] 00:05:55
53 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" [Hamor] 00:05:07
54 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" "Take the heart you fondly gave" [Iphis] 00:04:26
55 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "I go; my soul, inspir'd by thy command" [Hamor] "These labours past, how happy we!" [Iphis] 00:06:53
56 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha] 00:01:48
57 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus] 00:04:06
58 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" [Storgè] 00:05:12
59 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis] 00:04:13
60 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha] 00:00:30
61 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus] 00:04:29
62 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" [Hamor] 00:01:05
63 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus] 00:03:36
64 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Up the dreadful steep ascending" [Hamor] 00:04:57
65 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" "Tune the soft melodious lute" [Iphis] 00:04:37
66 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" "Freedom now once more possessing" [Zebul] 00:03:44
67 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" [Jephtha] 00:06:30
68 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus] 00:02:24
69 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 Symphony 00:01:23
70 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus] 00:04:55
71 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha] 00:04:18
72 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha] 00:01:11
73 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "First perish thou, and perish all the world!... Let other creatures die" [Storgè] 00:02:51
74 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor] 00:01:52
75 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha] 00:02:33
76 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Such news fly swift" "Happy they! this vital breath" [Iphis] 00:05:18
77 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha] 00:03:40
78 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus] 00:06:43
79 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" "A father, offering up" "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Jephtha] 00:06:20
80 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis] 00:05:40
81 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus] 00:03:07
82 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus] 00:01:53
83 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel] 00:05:54
84 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "For ever blessed be thy holy name" [Jephtha] 00:01:48
85 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus] 00:03:09
86 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul] 00:02:39
87 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè] 00:02:32
88 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety" "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" [Hamor] 00:07:36
89 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis] 00:05:59
90 Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus] 00:03:26

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