Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Felicity Palmer, Maureen Lehane, Robert Tear, Paul Esswood, Peter van der Bilt, Thomas Sunnegårdh, Werner Hollweg, Thomas Thomaschke, Glenys Linos, Elizabeth Gale, Gabriele Sima, Stockholm Kammerkören, Stockholm Chamber Choir
Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Eric Ericson
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 2564696116
Release: 2008
Size: 1.47 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Belshazzar
01. Overture to Act 1
02. Act 1: “Vain, fluctuating state” (Nitocris)
03. Act 1: “Thou, God most high” (Nitocris)
04. Act 1 “The fate of Babylon” [Nitocris] “Oh much belov’d” [Nitocris, Daniel]
05. Act 1: “Lament not thus” (Daniel)
06. Act 1 “Behold, by Persia’s hero made” [Chorus]
07. Act 1 “Well may they laugh” [Gobrias, Cyrus] “Oh memory!” [Gobrias]
08. Act 1: “Oppress’d with never-ceasing grief” (Gobrias)
09. Act 1: “Dry those anavailing tears” (Cyrus)
10. Act 1 “Be comforted” [Cyrus] “Methought, as on the bank” [Cyrus] “Now tell me, Gobrias” [Cyrus, Gobrias]
11. Act 1: “Behold the monstrous human beast” (Gobrias)
12. Act 1 “Can you then think” “Great God! who, yet but darkly known” “My friends, be confident” [Cyrus]
13. Act 1 “All empires” [Chorus]
14. Act 1: “Oh sacred oracles” (Daniel)
15. Act 1 “Rejoice, my countrymen” “For long ago” “Thus saith the Lord” [Daniel]
16. Act 1 “Sing, oh ye heav’ns!” [Chorus]
17. Act 1: “Let festal joy” (Belshazzar)
18. Act 1: “For you, my friends” (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
19. Act 1: “The leafy honours” (Nitocris)
20. Act 1: “It is the custom” (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
21. Act 1 “Recall, oh king!” [Chorus]
22. Act 1: “They tell you true” (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
23. Act 1: “Oh dearer than my life” (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
24. Act 1 “By slow degrees” [Chorus]
25. Act 2 “See from his post” “Why, faithless river” “Euphrates hath his task” “Of things on earth” [Chorus]
26. Act 2 “You see, my friends” “Amaz’d to find the foe so near” [Cyrus]
27. Act 2 “To arms, to arms!” [Chorus]
28. Act 2 “Ye tutelar gods” [Chorus]
29. Act 2 “Let the deep bowl” [Belshazzar] “Where is the God” [Chorus] “Help, help the king!” [Chorus, Belshazzar] “Call all my wise men” [Belshazzar]
30. Act 2 “Ye sages!” [Belshazzar] “Alas! too hard a task” [Chorus]
31. Act 2 “Oh misery!” [Chorus]
32. Act 2 “Oh king” [Nitocris] “Art thou that Daniel” [Belshazzar]
33. Act 2 “No! to thyself” [Daniel] “Yet to obey” [Daniel] “Though, o king” [Daniel] “Oh sentence too severe!” [Nitocris]
34. Act 2: “Regard, oh son” (Nitocris)
35. Act 2 “Oh God of Truth!” “You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace” [Cyrus]
36. Act 2: “Oh glorious prince!” (Chorus)
37. Act 3: ‘”Alternate hopes and fears” (Nitocris)
38. Act 3 “Fain would I hope” [Nitocris, Daniel] “Can the black Aethiop change his skin?” [Daniel]
39. Act 3: “My hopes revive” (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
40. Act 3 “Bel boweth down” [Chorus]
41. Act 3 “I thank thee, Sesach” [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony
42. Act 3: “To pow’r immortal” (Gobrias)
43. Act 3 “Be it thy care” “Destructive War” [Cyrus]
44. Act 3: “Great Victor” (Nitocris, Cyrus)
45. Act 3: “Say, venerable prophet” (Cyrus, Daniel)
46. Act 3 “Tell it out” [Chorus] “Yes, I will build the city” [Cyrus]
47. Act 3: “I will magnify thee” (Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger)
Jephtha HWV70
48. Overture – Menuet
49. Act 1 “It must be so – or these vile Ammonites” “Pour forth no more unheeded pray’rs” [Zebul]
50. Act 1 “No more to Ammon’s god and king” [Chorus]
51. Act 1 “But Jephtha comes” [Zebul, Jephtha] “Virtue my soul shall still embrace” [Jephtha]
52. Act 1 “‘Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha” “In gentle murmurs will I mourn” [Storgè]
53. Act 1 “Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis” “Dull delay, in piercing anguish” [Hamor]
54. Act 1 “Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls” “Take the heart you fondly gave” [Iphis]
55. Act 1 “I go; my soul, inspir’d by thy command” [Hamor] “These labours past, how happy we!” [Iphis]
56. Act 1 “What mean these doubtful fancies” “If, Lord, susain’d” “‘Tis said” [Jephtha]
57. Act 1 “O God, behold our sore distress” [Chorus]
58. Act 1 “Some dire event hangs o’er our heads” “Scenes of horror, scenes of woe” [Storgè]
59. Act 1 “Say, my dear mother” [Iphis, Storgè] “The smiling dawn of happy days” [Iphis]
60. Act 1: “Such, Jeptha, was the haughty King’s reply” (Zebul, Jephtha)
61. Act 1 “When his loud voice in thunder spoke” [Chorus]
62. Act 2: “Glad tidings of great joy, dea Iphis” (Hamor)
63. Act 2 “Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms” [Chorus]
64. Act 2: “Up the dreadful steep ascending” (Hamor)
65. Act 2 “‘Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens” “Tune the soft melodious lute” [Iphis]
66. Act 2 “Again Heav’n smiles on his repentant people” “Freedom now once more possessing” [Zebul]
67. Act 2 “Zebul, thy deeds were valiant” “His mighty arm, with sudden blow” [Jephtha]
68. Act 2 “In glory high, in might serene” [Chorus]
69. Act 2 Symphony
70. Act 2 “Hail, glorious conqueror!” “Welcome as the cheerful light” [Iphis, Chorus]
71. Act 2 “Horror! confusion!” “Open thy marble jaws, O tomb” [Jephtha]
72. Act 2: “Why is my brother thus afflicted?” (Zebul, Jephtha)
73. Act 2 “First perish thou, and perish all the world!… Let other creatures die” [Storgè]
74. Act 2 “If such thy cruel purpose” “On me let blind mistaken zeal” [Hamor]
75. Act 2: “Spare my child!” (Storgé, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
76. Act 2: “Such news fly swift” (Iphis)
77. Act 2: “Deeper and deeper still, thy goodness” (Jephtha)
78. Act 2 “How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!” [Chorus]
79. Act 3 “Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun” “A father, offering up” “Waft her, angels, through the skies” [Jephtha]
80. Act 3 “Ye sacred priests” “Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods” [Iphis]
81. Act 3 “Doubtful fear and rev’rent awe” [Chorus]
82. Act 3 “And they determin’d will declare” Symphony [Chorus]
83. Act 3 “Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev’rend priests” “Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live” [Angel]
84. Act 3: “For ever blessed be thy holy name” (Jephtha)
85. Act 3 “Theme sublime of endless praise” [Chorus]
86. Act 3 “Let me congratulate this happy turn” “Laud her, all ye virgin train” [Zebul]
87. Act 3 “O let me fold thee in a mother’s arms” “Sweet as sight to the blind” [Storgè]
88. Act 3 “With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety” “‘Tis Heaven’s all-ruling pow’r” [Hamor]
89. Act 3 “My faithful Hamor, may that Providence” “Freely I to Heaven resign” [Iphis]
90. Act 3 “Ye house of Gilead, with one voice” [Chorus]
