Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha

1. 1
   Handel : Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1
   4:31
2. 2
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris]
   5:06
3. 3
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris]
   4:06
4. 4
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel]
   1:19
5. 5
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel]
   4:49
6. 6
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus]
   2:57
7. 7
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias]
   1:29
8. 8
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias]
   3:10
9. 9
   Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus]
   2:37
10. 10
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]
    4:08
11. 11
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias]
    3:16
12. 12
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus]
    4:50
13. 13
    Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "All empires" [Chorus]
    3:39
14. 14
    Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "Oh sacred oracles" [Daniel]
    5:18
15. 15
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel]
    3:08
16. 16
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus]
    4:35
17. 17
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar]
    4:54
18. 18
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]
    1:02
19. 19
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris]
    8:18
20. 20
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "It is the custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]
    1:55
21. 21
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus]
    3:00
22. 22
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]
    1:36
23. 23
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]
    6:43
24. 24
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus]
    4:38
25. 25
    Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus]
    6:31
26. 26
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus]
    5:26
27. 27
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus]
    0:30
28. 28
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus]
    2:56
29. 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]
    5:46
30. 30
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus]
    2:42
31. 31
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus]
    1:33
32. 32
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar]
    1:44
33. 33
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris]
    4:41
34. 34
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris]
    6:24
35. 35
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus]
    5:29
36. 36
    Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "Oh glorious prince!" [Chorus]
    4:46
37. 37
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris]
    4:32
38. 38
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel]
    2:20
39. 39
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger]
    2:15
40. 40
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus]
    1:35
41. 41
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony
    2:14
42. 42
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias]
    2:14
43. 43
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus]
    3:02
44. 44
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus]
    5:16
45. 45
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel]
    0:49
46. 46
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus]
    3:32
47. 47
    Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger]
    5:34
48. 48
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Overture - Menuet
    6:52
49. 49
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "It must be so - or these vile Ammonites" "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" [Zebul]
    6:45
50. 50
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus]
    2:46
51. 51
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha]
    5:07
52. 52
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" [Storgè]
    5:55
53. 53
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" [Hamor]
    5:07
54. 54
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" "Take the heart you fondly gave" [Iphis]
    4:26
55. 55
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "I go; my soul, inspir'd by thy command" [Hamor] "These labours past, how happy we!" [Iphis]
    6:53
56. 56
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha]
    1:48
57. 57
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus]
    4:06
58. 58
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" [Storgè]
    5:12
59. 59
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis]
    4:13
60. 60
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha]
    0:30
61. 61
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus]
    4:29
62. 62
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" [Hamor]
    1:05
63. 63
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus]
    3:36
64. 64
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Up the dreadful steep ascending" [Hamor]
    4:57
65. 65
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" "Tune the soft melodious lute" [Iphis]
    4:37
66. 66
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" "Freedom now once more possessing" [Zebul]
    3:44
67. 67
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" [Jephtha]
    6:30
68. 68
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus]
    2:24
69. 69
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 Symphony
    1:23
70. 70
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus]
    4:55
71. 71
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha]
    4:18
72. 72
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha]
    1:11
73. 73
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "First perish thou, and perish all the world!... Let other creatures die" [Storgè]
    2:51
74. 74
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor]
    1:52
75. 75
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha]
    2:33
76. 76
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Such news fly swift" "Happy they! this vital breath" [Iphis]
    5:18
77. 77
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha]
    3:40
78. 78
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus]
    6:43
79. 79
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" "A father, offering up" "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Jephtha]
    6:20
80. 80
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis]
    5:40
81. 81
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus]
    3:07
82. 82
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus]
    1:53
83. 83
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel]
    5:54
84. 84
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "For ever blessed be thy holy name" [Jephtha]
    1:48
85. 85
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus]
    3:09
86. 86
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul]
    2:39
87. 87
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè]
    2:32
88. 88
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety" "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" [Hamor]
    7:36
89. 89
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis]
    5:59
90. 90
    Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus]
    3:26

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