Handel Edition, Volume 7 - Saul, Alexander's Feast, Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Utrecht Te Deum, Apost

1. 1
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Overture
   7:18
2. 2
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Behold! Auspicious flahes rise" (Cadmus)
   1:46
3. 3
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Lucky omens bless our rites" - Recitative, Air and Duet. "Daughter obey" (Priests, Cadmus, Athamas)
   4:39
4. 4
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?" - Air. "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" - Recitative. "Alas, she yields" (Semele, Ino, Athamas)
   3:53
5. 5
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Quartet. "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Semele, Ino, Athamas, Cadmus)
   3:24
6. 6
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" - Accompagnato. "Again auspicious flashes rise" - Recitative. "Thy aid, pronubial Juno" (Priests, Cadmus, Athamas, Semele)
   3:05
7. 7
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Cease your vow's, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)
   0:33
8. 8
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Recitative. "Oh Athamas" - Air. "Turn, hopeless lover" (Athamas, Ino)
   0:57
9. 9
   Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Duet. "You've undone me, look not on me" (Ino, Athamas)
   3:07
10. 10
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Recitative. "Ah, wretched prince" - Accompagnato. "Wing'd with our fears" (Cadmus, Athamas)
    1:48
11. 11
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Recitative. "See, see! Jove's Priests" - Chorus. "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Cadmus, Priests and Augurs)
    2:06
12. 12
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Air. "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele)
    2:51
13. 13
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 1: Chorus. "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Priests and Augurs)
    1:46
14. 14
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Symphony - Recitative. "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
    1:58
15. 15
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Look, where Cithaeron" - Air. "There, from mortal cares" - Recitative. "No more!" - Accompagnato. "Awake Saturnia" (Juno, Iris)
    6:49
16. 16
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Hence, Iris hence away" (Juno)
    3:39
17. 17
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Come, Zephyrs, come" - Air. "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Cupid, Semele)
    6:30
18. 18
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Let me not another moment" (Semele)
    3:26
19. 19
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "Lay your doubts and fears aside" - Recitative. "You are mortal" (Jupiter)
    3:32
20. 20
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Air. "With fond desiring, with bliss expiring" (Semele)
    3:28
21. 21
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "How engaging, how endearing" - Recitative. "Ah me! Why sighs my Semele?" (Loves and Zephyrs, Semele, Jupiter)
    4:46
22. 22
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Too well I read her meaning" - Air. "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
    4:16
23. 23
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "Now Love that everlasting boy" (Loves and Zephyrs)
    2:30
24. 24
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "By my command now at this instant" (Jupiter, Semele)
    0:29
25. 25
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "See, she appears" - Air. "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
    5:57
26. 26
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Recitative. "Dear sister?" - Air. "But hark! the heav'nly sphere" (Semele, Ino)
    2:54
27. 27
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Duet. "Prepare then, ye" (Semele, Ino)
    1:58
28. 28
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 2: Chorus. "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs and Swains)
    2:41
29. 29
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Symphony - Accompagnato. "Somnus, awake!" (Juno, Iris)
    2:31
30. 30
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Leave me, loathsome light!" - Recitative. "Dull God" (Somnus, Iris, Juno)
    4:33
31. 31
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "More sweet is that name" - Recitative. "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
    4:14
32. 32
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Duet. "Obey my will, thy rod resign" (Juno, Somnus)
    2:14
33. 33
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
    2:56
34. 34
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
    1:38
35. 35
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "O ecstasy of happiness!" - Air. "Myself I shall adore" - Recitative. "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
    8:08
36. 36
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Conjure him" (Juno)
    1:22
37. 37
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" - Recitative. "Rich odours" (Semele, Juno)
    3:14
38. 38
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Oh Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter)
    2:51
39. 39
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "I ever am granting" - Accompagnato. "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele, Jupiter)
    3:11
40. 40
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Ah! Take heed what you press!" (Jupiter)
    1:14
41. 41
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "No, no, I'll tak no less" (Semele)
    5:07
42. 42
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ah, wither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
    3:25
43. 43
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Air. "Above measure is the pleasure" (Juno)
    2:27
44. 44
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ah me! Too late I now repent" (Semele)
    3:22
45. 45
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "Of my ill-boding dream" - Chorus. "Oh terror and astonishment!" (Ino, Priests)
    4:12
46. 46
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Recitative. "See from above" - Sinfonia - Accompagnato. "Apollo comes" (Cadmus, Apollo)
    2:32
47. 47
    Semele, HWV 58, Act 3: Chorus. "Happy shall we be, and free from care" (Priests)
    3:16
48. 48
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Overture. Lamentations of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph
    2:14
49. 49
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Recitative. "Now there arose a new king over Egypt"
    0:27
50. 50
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air with Chorus. "And the children of Israel"
    3:55
51. 51
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Recitative. "Then sent He Moses, his servant"
    0:35
52. 52
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "They loathed to drink of the river"
    2:17
53. 53
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air. "Their land brought forth frogs"
    2:17
54. 54
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He spake the word"
    2:09
55. 55
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He gave them hailstones for rain"
    2:09
56. 56
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He sent a thick darkness"
    3:22
57. 57
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He smote all the first-born of Egypt"
    2:27
58. 58
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "But as for his people"
    4:09
59. 59
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "Egypt was glad when they departed"
    3:05
60. 60
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He rebuked the Red Sea"
    0:45
61. 61
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He led them through the deep"
    1:26
62. 62
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "But the waters overwhelmed their enemies" (Chorus)
    1:05
63. 63
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "And Israel saw that great work"
    0:58
64. 64
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "And believed the Lord"
    3:35
65. 65
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Moses and the children of Israel" (Chorus)
    1:04
66. 66
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "I will sing unto the Lord"
    2:36
67. 67
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Duet. "The Lord is my strength"
    4:35
68. 68
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "He is my God"
    0:54
69. 69
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "And I will exalt Him"
    2:53
70. 70
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Duet. "The Lord is a man of war"
    5:46
71. 71
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "The depths have covered them"
    2:52
72. 72
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "Thy right hand, O Lord"
    1:28
73. 73
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "And in the greatness of thine excellency"
    0:38
74. 74
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "Thou sentest forth Thy wrath"
    2:02
75. 75
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "And with the blast of thy nostrils"
    2:59
76. 76
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air. "The enemy said, I will pursue"
    2:32
77. 77
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air. "Thou didst blow with the wind"
    2:25
78. 78
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "Who is like unto Thee, O Lord"
    1:36
79. 79
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "The earth swallowed them"
    1:11
80. 80
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Duet. "Thou in thy mercy"
    4:24
81. 81
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "The people shall hear"
    7:30
82. 82
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air. "Thou shalt bring them in"
    3:57
83. 83
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "The Lord shall reign for ever and ever"
    0:45
84. 84
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Recitative. "For the horse of Pharoah"
    0:26
85. 85
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Chorus. "The Lord shall reign for ever and ever"
    0:41
86. 86
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Recitative. "And Miriam the prophetess"
    0:23
87. 87
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Air with Chorus. "Sing ye to the Lord"
    3:27
88. 88
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": I. Sinfonia
    2:20
89. 89
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": II. Chorus. "The ways of Zion do mourn"
    6:32
90. 90
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": VII. Chorus. "How are the mighty fall'n" (Reprise)
    2:35
91. 91
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": III. Chorus. "She put on righteousness"
    2:47
92. 92
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": IV. Soli and Chorus. "When the ear heard her"
    3:24
93. 93
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": V. Chorus. "How are the mighty fall'n"
    0:55
94. 94
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": VI. Chorus. "She deliver'd the poor that cried"
    5:47
95. 95
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": VII. Chorus. "How are the mighty fall'n"
    0:58
96. 96
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": VIII. Soli and Chorus. "The righteous shall be had in everlasting"
    4:05
97. 97
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": IX. Chorus. "Their bodies are buried in peace" - X. Chorus. "But their name liveth evermore"
    5:05
98. 98
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": XI. Chorus. "The people will tell of their wisdom" - XII. Chorus. "And the congregation"
    2:07
99. 99
    Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": XIII. Soli and Chorus. "They shall receive a glorious kingdom"
    3:53
100. 100
     Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, HWV 264 "The Ways of Zion Do Mourn": XIV. Chorus. "The merciful goodness of the Lord"
     3:47
101. 101
     Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV 258 "Zadok the Priest"
     7:05
102. 102
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Sonata
     3:21
103. 103
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno"
     5:20
104. 104
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "Qual'insolita luce" (Lucifero)
     1:23
105. 105
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Caddi, e ver, ma nel cadere" (Lucifero)
     4:04
106. 106
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "Ma che veggio?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
     0:57
107. 107
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Chi sei? Chi è questo re" (Lucifero, Angelo)
     0:54
108. 108
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "D'amor fu consiglio" (Angelo)
     2:36
109. 109
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "E ben, questo tuo Nume" (Lucifero, Angelo)
     1:39
110. 110
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "O voi, dell'Erebo" (Lucifero)
     3:12
111. 111
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "Notte, notte funesta" (Maddalena)
     0:45
112. 112
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Ferma l'ali, e su miei lumi" (Maddalena)
     6:17
113. 113
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Concedi, O Maddalena" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
     1:05
114. 114
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Arioso. "Piangete, sì, piangete" (Cleofe)
     2:29
115. 115
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Ahi, dolce mio Signore" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
     1:54
116. 116
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Duetto. "Dolci chiodi, amate spine"
     3:29
117. 117
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "O Cleofe, O Maddalena" (San Giovanni, Maddalena)
     1:41
118. 118
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Quando è parto dell'affetto"
     3:53
119. 119
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Ma dinne, e sarà vero" (Cleofe, San Giovanni, Maddalena)
     1:04
120. 120
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Naufragando va per l'onde" (Cleofe)
     5:19
121. 121
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Itene pure, o fide amiche donne" (San Giovanni, Maddalena)
     1:19
122. 122
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Così la tortorella" (San Giovanni)
     3:45
123. 123
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Se Maria dunque spera" (Maddalena)
     0:56
124. 124
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Aria. "Ho un non so che nel cor" (Maddalena)
     2:32
125. 125
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Recitativo. "Uscite pur, uscite" (Angelo)
     1:27
126. 126
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 1: Coro. "Il Nume vincitor" (Tutti)
     2:29
127. 127
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Introduzione
     1:28
128. 128
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Di quai nuovi portenti" (San Giovanni)
     0:43
129. 129
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Ecco il sol ch'esce dal mare" (San Giovanni)
     4:41
130. 130
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Ma ove Maria dimora" (San Giovanni)
     0:25
131. 131
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Risorga il mondo lieto e giocondo" (Angelo)
     3:47
132. 132
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Accompagnato. "Di rabbia indarno freme" (Angelo)
     1:05
133. 133
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Misero! ho pure udito?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
     0:49
134. 134
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Per celare il nuovo scorno"
     1:44
135. 135
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Oh come cieco il tuo furor delira!" (Angelo, Lucifero)
     0:36
136. 136
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Duetto. "Duro e il cimento" (Lucifero, Angelo)
     0:32
137. 137
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Amica, troppo tardo" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
     0:49
138. 138
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Per me già di morire" (Maddalena)
     6:23
139. 139
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Ahi, aborrito nome!" (Lucifero)
     0:43
140. 140
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Vedo il ciel che piu sereno" (Cleofe)
     3:36
141. 141
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Cleofe, siam giunte al luogo" (Maddalena, Cleofe, Angelo)
     1:22
142. 142
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Se per colpa di donna infelice" (Angelo)
     3:14
143. 143
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Mio Gesù, mio Signore" (Maddalena)
     0:47
144. 144
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Del ciglio dolente l'ondosa procella"
     3:19
145. 145
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Sì, sì, cerchiamo pure" (Cleofe)
     0:22
146. 146
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Augelletti, ruscelletti" (Cleofe)
     2:46
147. 147
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Dove sì frettolosi" (San Giovanni, Cleofe)
     1:11
148. 148
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Caro Figlio, amato Dio"
     4:21
149. 149
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Cleofe, Giovanni, udite" (Maddalena, San Giovanni, Cleofe)
     1:21
150. 150
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Aria. "Se impassibile, immortale sei risorto" (Maddalena)
     3:52
151. 151
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Recitativo. "Si, col Redentore sorga il mondo redento" (San Giovanni, Cleofe, Maddalena)
     0:24
152. 152
     La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Pt. 2: Coro. "Diasi lode in cielo, in terra" (Tutti)
     2:00
153. 153
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: I. Dixit Dominus, Domino meo
     6:15
154. 154
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: II. Virgam virtutis tuae
     3:14
155. 155
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: III. Tecum principium
     3:03
156. 156
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: IV. Juravit Dominus
     2:40
157. 157
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: V. Secundum ordinem Melchisedech
     1:33
158. 158
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: VI. Dominus a dextris tuis
     7:21
159. 159
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: VII. De torrente in via bibet
     4:12
160. 160
     Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: VIII. Gloria Patri et Filio
     6:34

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