Columbus, USA

Belshazzar

Artist name
George Frideric Handel; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock
Release date 1990

Tracklist

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