Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha

Belshazzar, HWV 61: Overture

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative and Air. "Vain, fluctuating state" (Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Thou, God most high" (Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "The fate of Babylon" - Recitative. "Oh much belov'd" (Nitocris, Daniel) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Lament not thus" (Daniel) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "Well may they laugh" - Accompagnato. "Oh memory!" (Cyrus, Gobrias) [feat. Maureen Lehane & Peter van der Bilt]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias) [feat. Peter van der Bilt]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Dry those anavailing tears" (Cyrus) [feat. Maureen Lehane]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "Be comforted" - Accompagnato. "Methought, as on the bank" - Recitative. "Now tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias) [feat. Maureen Lehane & Peter van der Bilt]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias) [feat. Peter van der Bilt]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "Can you then think" - Air. "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" - Recitative. "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus) [feat. Maureen Lehane]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "All empires" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Oh sacred oracles" (Daniel) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Rejoice, my countrymen" - Recitative. "For long ago" - Accompagnato. "Thus saith the Lord" (Daniel) [feat. Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Let festal joy" (Belshazzar) [feat. Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "The leafy honours" (Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "It is the custom" (Belshazzar, Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "Recall, oh king!" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Duet. "Oh dearer than my life" (Nitocris, Belshazzar) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "By slow degrees" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "See from his post" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Recitative. "You see, my friends" - Air. "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus) [feat. Maureen Lehane]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "To arms, to arms!" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "Ye tutelar gods" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "Let the deep bowl" - Accompagnato. "Where is the God" - Chorus. "Help, help the king!" - Recitative. "Call all my wise men" (Chorus, Belshazzar) [feat. Robert Tear & Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: A Symphony - Recitative. "Ye sages!" - Trio. "Alas! too hard a task" (Belshazzar, Chorus) [feat. Robert Tear & Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "Oh misery!" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Recitative. "Oh king" - Recitative. "Art thou that Daniel" (Nitocris, Belshazzar) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "No! to thyself" - Accompanato. "Yet to obey" - Accompagnato. "Though, o king" - "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris, Daniel) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "Regard, oh son" (Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "Oh God of Truth!" - Recitative. "You, Gobrias" (Cyrus) [feat. Maureen Lehane]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "Oh glorious prince!" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Air. "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris) [feat. Felicity Palmer]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "Fain would I hope" - Air. "Can the black Aethiop" (Nitocris, Daniel) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger) [feat. Felicity Palmer, Staffan Sandlund & Thomas Sunnegårdh]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Chorus. "Bel boweth down" (Chorus) [feat. Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Air. "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar) - A Marital Symphony [feat. Robert Tear]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Air. "To pow'r immortal" (Gobrias) [feat. Peter van der Bilt]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "Be it thy care" - Air. "Destructive War" (Cyrus) [feat. Maureen Lehane]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Duet. "Great Victor" (Nitocris, Cyrus) [feat. Felicity Palmer & Maureen Lehane]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel) [feat. Maureen Lehane & Paul Esswood]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Soli and Chorus. "Tell it out" - Accompagnato. "Yes, I will build the city" (Cyrus, Chorus) [feat. Maureen Lehane & Stockholm Chamber Choir]

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Soli and Chorus. "I will magnify thee" (Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger) [feat. Felicity Palmer, Maureen Lehane, Paul Esswood, Peter van der Bilt, Robert Tear, Staffan Sandlund, Stockholm Chamber Choir & Thomas Sunnegårdh]

Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Accompagnato. "It must be so" - Air. "Pour forth no more" (Zebul) [feat. Thomas Thomaschke]

Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "No more to Ammon's god and king" (Israelites) [feat. Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Mozart Sängerknaben]