Handel: Belshazzar

1. 1
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61: Overture
   4:38
2. 2
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"
   5:06
3. 3
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"
   4:00
4. 4
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"
   1:15
5. 5
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"
   4:55
6. 6
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Behold, by Persia's hero made"
   2:49
7. 7
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"
   1:19
8. 8
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Opprest with never-ceasing grief"
   3:33
9. 9
   Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Dry those unavailing tears"
   2:13
10. 10
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"
    2:35
11. 11
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Now, tell me, Gobrias"
    1:14
12. 12
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Behold the monstrous human beast"
    3:16
13. 13
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Can you then think it strange"
    0:16
14. 14
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Great God! who, yet but darkly known"
    3:49
15. 15
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "My friends, be confident"
    0:41
16. 16
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "All empires upon God depend"
    3:15
17. 17
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"
    5:14
18. 18
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"
    3:00
19. 19
    Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
    4:11
20. 20
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "Let festal joy triumphant reign!"
    5:03
21. 21
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "For you, my friends"
    0:54
22. 22
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "The leafy honours of the field"
    7:34
23. 23
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "It is the custom, I may say, the law"
    1:23
24. 24
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"
    3:54
25. 25
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "They tell you true"
    1:23
26. 26
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!"
    7:15
27. 27
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1: "By slow degrees the wrath of God"
    4:16
28. 28
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
    6:27
29. 29
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "You see, my friends, a path"
    0:46
30. 30
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Amaz'd to find the foe so near"
    4:24
31. 31
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "To arms, to arms! no more delay!"
    0:35
32. 32
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
    2:59
33. 33
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"
    2:38
34. 34
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"
    2:41
35. 35
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Call all my Wise Men"
    0:26
36. 36
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: A Sinfony
    1:43
37. 37
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes"
    1:06
38. 38
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
    1:50
39. 39
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh king, live for ever!"
    1:40
40. 40
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "No! to thyself thy trifles be"
    1:31
41. 41
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Yet, to obey his dread command"
    3:13
42. 42
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"
    6:57
43. 43
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!"
    4:37
44. 44
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"
    1:02
45. 45
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh glorious prince!"
    4:41
46. 46
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Alternate hopes and fears"
    4:28
47. 47
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Fain would I hope"
    0:23
48. 48
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"
    2:26
49. 49
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "My hopes revive"
    1:51
50. 50
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Bel boweth down!"
    1:31
51. 51
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "I thank thee, Sesach"
    1:38
52. 52
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: A Martial Symphony
    0:39
53. 53
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "To pow'r immortal my first thanks"
    2:45
54. 54
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"
    2:55
55. 55
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Great victor, at your feet I bow"
    3:59
56. 56
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Say, venerable prophet"
    0:56
57. 57
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Tell it out among the heathen"
    1:38
58. 58
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "Yes, I will build thy city"
    2:22
59. 59
    Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3: "I will magnify thee"
    5:28

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