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George Frideric Handel
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Handel: The Great Oratorios
Handel: The Great Oratorios
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George Frideric Handel
Release date
2016
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1
La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Part I - Sonata
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 3 Aria: "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno" (Angelo)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 2b Recitativo accompagnato: "Qual'insolita luce" (Lucifero); No. 1 Aria: "Caddi, è ver (Lucifero)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 4 Recitativo accompagnato: "Ma, che veggio?" (Lucifero, Angelo); Recitativo: "Chi sei?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 5 Aria: "D'amor fu consiglio" (Angelo); Recitativo: "E ben, questio tuo Nume" (Lucifero, Angelo)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 6 Aria: "O voi, dell'Erebo" (Lucifero)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 7 Recitativo accompagnato: "Notte, notte funesta" (Maddalena); No. 8 Aria: "Ferma l'ali" (Maddalena); Recitativo: "Concedi, o Maddalena, quale tregua al martire" (Cleofe, Maddalena)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 9 Aria: "Piangete, sì, piangete" (Cleofe); Recitativo: "Ahi, dolce mio Signore" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 10 Duetto: "Dolci chiodi, amate spine" (Maddalena, Cleofe); Recitativo: "O Cleofe, o Maddalena" (S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 11 Aria: "Quando è parto dell'affetto" (S. Giovanni); Recitativo: "Ma dimmi, e sarà vero che risorga Gesù" (Cleofe, S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 12 Aria: "Naufragando va per l'onde" (Cleofe); Recitativo: "Itene pure, o fide amiche donne" (S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 13 Aria: "Così la tortorella" (S. Giovanni); Recitativo: "Se Maria dunque spera" (Maddalena)
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La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 14 Aria: "Ho un non so che nel cor" (Maddalena); Recitativo: "Uscite pure, uscite dall'oscura prigione" (Angelo)
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La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Part I - Coro: Il Nume vincitor
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Introduzione
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Ecco il sol ch’esce dal mare (S. Giovanni)
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Risorga il mondo (Angelo)
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Di rabbia indarno freme (Angelo)
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Per celare il nuovo scorno (Lucifero)
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Duetto: Impedirlo io saprò! (Lucifero, Angelo)
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Aria: Per mi già di morire (Maddalena)
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Aria: Vedo il ciel (Cleofe)
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Se per colpa di sonna infelice (Angelo)
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Del ciglio dolente (Maddalena)
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Augelletti, ruscelletti (Cleofe)
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Caro Figlio! (Giovanni)
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Se impassibile, immortale (Maddalena)
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Disai lode in Cielo, in terra (Coro)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 1 Sinfonia
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 2 Chorus: "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!"
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 3 Accompagnato: "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 4 Air: "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 5 Air: "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" (Acis)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. Recitative: "Stay, shepherd, stay!" (Damon)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 6 Air: "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?" (Damon)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. Recitative: "Lo! Here my love" (Acis)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 7 Air: "Love in her eyes sits playing" (Acis)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. Recitative: "Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 8 Air: "As when the dove laments her love" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act One. No. 9 Duet: "Happy we! What joys I feel!" (Acis, Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 10 Chorus: "Wretched lovers! Fate has passed this sad decree"
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 11 Accompagnato: "I rage, I melt, I burn!" (Polyphemus)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 12 Air: "O ruddier than the cherry" (Polyphemus)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. Recitative: "Whither, fairest, art thou running" (Polyphemus, Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 13 Air: "Cease to beauty to be suing" (Polyphemus)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 14 Air: "Would you gain the tender creature, softly, gently, kindly treat her" (Damon)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. Recitative: "His hideous love provokes me rage" (Acis)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 15 Air: "Love sounds th'alarm, and fear is a-flying" (Acis)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 16 Air: "Consider, fond shepherd, how fleeting's the pleasure" (Damon)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. Recitative: "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 17 Trio: "The flocks shall leave the mountains" (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 18 Accompagnato: "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!" (Acis)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 19 Chorus: "Mourn, all ye Muses! Weep, all ye swains!"
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 20a Solo and Chorus: "Must I my Acis still bemoan, inglorious crush'd beneath that stone?" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. Recitative: "'Tis done: thus I exert pow'r divine; be thou immortal" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 21 Air: "Heart, the seat of soft delight, be thou now a fountain bright!" (Galatea)
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Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 (First Version): Act Two. No. 22 Chrous: "Galatea, dry thy tears, Acis now a god appears!"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. Ouverture / "'Tis greater far to spare"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. "Pluck root and branch from out the land"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. "Shall we the God of Israel fear?"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. "Tune your harps to cheerful strains"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. "Shall we of servitude complain"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. "Praise the Lord with cheerful noise"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. "Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 3. "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 3. "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. "Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. "Tears assist me, pity moving"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. "Save us, O Lord"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. "Who dares intrude into our presence"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. "Who calls my parting soul from death?" / "Awake, my soul, my life, my breath!"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. "O beauteous Queen" / "If I find favour in thy sight"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. "How can I stay when love invites"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. "Virtue, truth and innocence"
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Esther, Scene 5: Arioso - Jehovah, Crown'd With Glory Bright / Chorus - He Comes, He Comes to End Our Woes / Scene 6, Recitative - Now, o Queen, Thy Suit Declare
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. "Turn not, O Queen, thy face away"
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Esther, Scene 6: Aria - Flatt'Ring Tongue, No More I Hear Thee! Recitative - Guards, Seize the Traitor
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. "How art thou fall'n from thy height!"
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Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. "The Lord our enemy has slain" / "For ever blessed be thy holy name" / "Let Israel songs of joy repeat" / ... / "For ever blessed be thy holy name"
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Athalia: Sinfonia
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Athalia: Blooming virgins, spotless train
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Athalia: The rising world Jehovah crown'd
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Athalia: Tyrants would in impious throngs
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Athalia: When he is in his wrath reveal'd
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Athalia: Your sacred songs awhile forbear
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Athalia: What scenes of horror round me rise!
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Athalia: The gods, who chosen blessings shed
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Athalia: Cheer her, O Baal
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Athalia: Gentle airs, melodious strains!
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Athalia: Softest sounds no more can ease me
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Athalia: The traitor if you there descry
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Athalia: Faithful cares in vain extended
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Athalia: Gloomy tyrants, we disdain
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Athalia: The mighty pow'r
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Athalia: Through the land so lovely blooming
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Athalia: Ah, canst thou but prove me!
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Athalia: My spirits fail, I faint, I die!
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Athalia: My vengeance awakes me
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Athalia: My spirits fail, I faint, I die!
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Athalia: Cease thy anguish, smile once more
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Athalia: The clouded scene begins to clear
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Athalia: What sacred horrors shake my breast!
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Athalia: Unfold, great seer, what heav'n imparts
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Athalia: Let harmony breathe soft around
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Athalia: With firm united hearts
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Athalia: Soothing tyrant, falsely smiling!
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Athalia: Around let acclamations ring
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Athalia: Oppression, no longer I dread thee
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Athalia: Hark! His thunders round me roll
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Athalia: To darkness eternal
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Athalia: Now, Josabeth, thy fears are o'er!
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Athalia: Give glory to his awful name
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Adagio - Andante
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "T'was at the royal feast"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Nos. 1 & 2: Air and Chorus: "Happy, happy, happy pair!"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "Timotheus placed on high"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 3 Accompagnato: "The song began from Jove"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 4 Chorus: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 5 Air: "With ravish'd ears"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "The praise of Bacchus then"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 6 Air: "Bacchus, ever fair and young"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 7 Accompagnato: "He chose a mournful Muse"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 8 Air: "He sung Darius, great and good"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 9 Accompagnato: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Chorus: "Behold Darius great and good"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 10 Recitative: "The mighty master smiled to see"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 11 Arioso: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 12 Air: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 13 Chorus: "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 14 Air: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Chorus (da capo): "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
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Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": I. Allegro
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Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": II. Largo - Adagio
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Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": III. Allegro - Adagio
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Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": IV. Andante non presto
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 15 Accompagnato and Chorus: "Now strike the golden lyre again" / "Break his bonds of sleep asunder" / "Hark, hark! The horrid sound"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 16a Air: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" / Part 2. No. 16b Accompagnato: "Behold, a ghastly band"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 17 Accompagnato: "Give the vengeance due"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 18 Air: "The princes applaud with a furious joy"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 19 Air and Chorus: Air: "Thaïs led the way" / Chorus: "The princes applaud with furious joy"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 20 Accompagnato and Chorus: Accompagnato: "Thus, long ago"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Chorus: "At last divine Cecilia came"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Recitative: "Your voices tune, and raise them high"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Duet: "Let's imitate her notes above!"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Recitative: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
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Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony - Allegro (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony - Larghetto (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony - Allegro (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony - Andante larghetto (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "How excellent thy name, O Lord" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "An infant rais'd by thy command...Along the monster atheist strode" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "The youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "How excellent thy name, O Lord" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "He comes...O godlike youth!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Behold, O King, the brave victorious youth" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "O King, your favours with delight I take...O early piety! (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "What abject thoughts a Prince can have...Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Birth and fortune I despise!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Go on, illustrious pair!...While yet thy tide of blood runs high" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Thou, Merab, first in birth... My soul rejects the thought...See, see with what a scornful air... Ah! lovely youth!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - Symphony..."Already see the daughters...Welcome, welcome mighty King!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "What do I hear?... David his ten thousands slew...To him ten thousands!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Imprudent women!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Fell rage and black despair possessed" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "This but the smallest part of harmony...By thee this universal frame" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Rack'd with infernal pains" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "O Lord, whose mercies"...Symphony (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "'Tis all in vain...A serpent in my bosom warm'd...Has he escaped my rage?" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Capricious man" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "O filial piety!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "No, no cruel father, no!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - "Preserve him for the glory of thy name" (Live)
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Audience Applause Act 1 (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Envy! Eldestborn of hell! (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Ah! dearest friend" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "O strange vicissitude!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Such haughty beauties" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "My father comes...Hast thou obey'd my orders" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Sin not, o King, against the youth" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "As great Jehovah lives" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "From cities storm'd, and battles won" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Appear, my friend" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Your words, O King...Yes he shall wed my daughter!" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "A Father's will" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "O fairest of ten thousand fair... Is there a man" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - Symphony (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Thy father is as cruel" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "At persecution I can laugh" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Whom dost thou seek?" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "No, no, let the guilty tremble" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Mean as he was" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "Author of peace" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - Symphony (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "The time at length is come...Where is the son of Jesse" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - "O fatal consequence of rage" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Wretch that I am...'Tis said, here lives a woman...With me what would'st thou?" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Infernal Spirits" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - Symphony (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Whence comest thou?...Impious wretch, of race accurst" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - March (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Mourn Israel" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "O let it not in Gath be heard" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "From this unhappy day" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Eagles were not so swift as they" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "In sweetest harmony" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "O fatal Day" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Ye men of Judah, weep no more" (Live)
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - "Gird on thy sword" (Live)
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Audience Applause Act 3 (Live)
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Israel in Egypt: Overture
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Israel in Egypt: No. 1 Recitative (Tenor) - Now there arose a new king; No. 2 Chorus - And the children of Israel sighed
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Israel in Egypt: No. 3 Recitative (Tenor) - Then sent He Moses; No. 4 Chorus - They loathed to drink of the river
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Israel in Egypt: No. 5 Air (Alto) - Their land brought forth frogs
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Israel in Egypt: No. 6 Chorus - He spake the word
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Israel in Egypt: No. 7 Chorus - He gave them hailstones for rain
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Israel in Egypt: No. 8 Chorus - He sent a thick darkness
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Israel in Egypt: No. 9 Chorus - He smote all the first-born of Egypt
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Israel in Egypt: No. 10 Chorus - But as for his people
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Israel in Egypt: No. 11 Chorus - Egypt was glad when they departed
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Israel in Egypt: No. 12 Chorus - He rebuked the Red Sea
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Israel in Egypt: No. 13 Chorus - And Israel saw that great work
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Israel in Egypt: No. 14 Introitus (Chorus) - Moses and the children on Israel
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Israel in Egypt: No. 15 Duet (Sopranos I and II) - The Lord is my strength
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Israel in Egypt: No. 16 Chorus - He is my God
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Israel in Egypt: No. 17 Duet (Bass I and II) - The Lord is a man of war
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Israel in Egypt: No. 18 Chorus - The depths have covered them
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Israel in Egypt: No. 19 Chorus - Thy right hand, o Lord
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Israel in Egypt: No. 20 Chorus - And with the blast of thy nostrils
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Israel in Egypt: No. 21 Air (Tenor) - The enemy said: I will pursue
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Israel in Egypt: No. 22 Air (Soprano) - Thou didst blow with the wind
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Israel in Egypt: No. 23 Chorus - Who is like unto thee
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Israel in Egypt: No. 24 Duet (Alto and Tenor) - Thou in thy mercy
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Israel in Egypt: No. 25 Chorus - The people shall hear
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Israel in Egypt: No. 26 Air (Alto) - Thou shalt bring them in
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Israel in Egypt: No.27a Chorus, No.28 Recitative, No.27b Chorus, No.29 Recitative, No.30 Chorus
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Two Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest
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Two Coronation Anthems: The King Shall Rejoice
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Messiah, HWV 56: I. Sinfony (Grave: Allegro Moderato)
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Messiah, HWV 56: II. Accompagnato (Tenor) "Comfort Ye My People"
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Messiah, HWV 56: III. Air (Tenor) "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted"
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Messiah, HWV 56: IV. Chorus "And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed"
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Messiah, HWV 56: V. Accompagnato (Bass) "Thus Saith the Lord of Hosts"
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Messiah, HWV 56: VI. Air (Alto) "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming"
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Messiah, HWV 56: VII. Chorus "And He Shall Purify"
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Messiah, HWV 56: VIII. Recitative (Contralto) "Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive"
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Messiah, HWV 56: IX. Air (Contralto) and Chorus: "O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings"
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Messiah, HWV 56: X. Accompagnato (Bass) "For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XI. Air (Bass) "The People That Walked in Darkness"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XII. Chorus "For Unto Us a Child Is Born"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XIII. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
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Messiah, HWV 56: XIV. Recitative (Soprano) "There Were Shepherds Abiding in the Field" - XV. Accompagnato (Soprano) "And Lo, the Angel of the Lord" - XVI. Accompagnato (Soprano) "And Suddenly There Was With the Angel"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XVII. Chorus "Glory to God in the Highest"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XVIII. Air (Soprano) "Rejoice Greatly, o Daughter of Zion"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XIX. Recitative (Contralto) "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XX. Air (Contralto & Soprano) "He Shall Feed His Flock"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXI. Chorus "His Yoke Is Easy, His Burthen Is Light"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXII. Chorus "Behold the Lamb of God"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXIII. Air (Contralto) "He Was Despised"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXIV. Chorus "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXV. Chorus "And With His Stripes We Are Healed"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXVI. Chorus "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXVII. Accompagnato (Tenor) "All They That See Him"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXVIII. Chorus "He Trusted in God"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXIX. Accompagnato (Tenor) "Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXX. Arioso (Tenor) "Behold, and See If There Be Any Sorrow"
273
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXI. Accompagnato (Soprano) "He Was Cut Off Out of the Land"
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Messiah, HWV 56: XXXII. Air (Soprano) "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul"
275
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXIII. Chorus "Lift Up Your Heads, o Ye Gates"
276
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXIV. Recitative (Tenor) "Unto Which of the Angels"
277
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXV. Chorus "Let All the Angels of God Worship Him"
278
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXVI. Air (Alto) "Thou Art Gone Up on High"
279
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXVII. Chorus "The Lord Gave the Word"
280
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXVIII. Air (Soprano) "How Beautiful Are the Feet"
281
Messiah, HWV 56: XXXIX. Chorus "The Sound Is Gone Out"
282
Messiah, HWV 56: XL. Air (Bass) "Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage"
283
Messiah, HWV 56: XLI. Chorus "Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder"
284
Messiah, HWV 56: XLII. Recitative (Tenor) "He That Dwelleth in Heaven"
285
Messiah, HWV 56: XLIII. Air (Tenor) "Thou Shalt Break Them"
286
Messiah: "Hallelujah"
287
Messiah, HWV 56: XLV. Air (Soprano) "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth"
288
Messiah, HWV 56: XLVI. Chorus "Since by Man Came Death"
289
Messiah, HWV 56: XLVII. Recitative (Bass) "Behold, I Tell You a Mystery"
290
Messiah, HWV 56: XLVIII. Air (Bass) "The Trumpet Shall Sound"
291
Messiah, HWV 56: XLIX. Recitative (Alto) "Then Shall Be Brought to Pass"
292
Messiah, HWV 56: L. Duet (Alto & Tenor) "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting?"
293
Messiah, HWV 56: LI. Chorus "But Thanks Be to God"
294
Messiah, HWV 56: LII. Air (Contralto) "If God Be for Us"
295
Messiah, HWV 56: LIII. Chorus "Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain" - "Amen"
296
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Synfony
297
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" (Samson)
298
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
299
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Ye men of Gaza, hither bring" (Philistine woman)
300
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
301
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" (Philistine man)
302
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 5 Air: "Then free from sorrow" (Philistine woman)
303
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
304
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Why by an angel was my birth foretold" (Samson)
305
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "Torments, alas! are not confined" (Samson)
306
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "O change beyond report" (Micah)
307
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "O mirror of our fickle state" (Micah)
308
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself" (Samson, Micah)
309
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 8 Air: "Total eclipse! no sun, no moon, all dark" (Samson)
310
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Accompagnato: "Since light so necessary is to life" (Micah)
311
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Chorus of Israelites: "Oh first created beam!"
312
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" (Samson, Micah)
313
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Brethren and men of Dan" (Manoa, Micah)
314
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 11 Accompagnato: "O miserable change! is this the man" (Manoa)
315
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "O ever failing trust in mortal strength!" (Israelite man)
316
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 12 Air: "God of our fathers" (Israelite man)
317
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 14 Accompagnato: "The good we wish for, often proves our banes" (Manoa)
318
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 15 Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" (Manoa)
319
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" (Samson, Manoa)
320
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 16 Accompagnato: "My griefs for this forbid mine eyes to close" (samson)
321
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 17 Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" (Samson)
322
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "There lies our hope!" (Micah)
323
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 18 Corus of Israelites: "Then shall they know"
324
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son" (Manoa, Samson)
325
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 20 Air: "Then long Eternity shall greet your bliss" (Micah)
326
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 21 Chorus of Philistines: "Then round about the starry throne"
327
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Despair not thus!" (Manoa, Samson)
328
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 22 Air: "Just are the ways of God to man" (Manoa)
329
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "My evils hopeless are!" (Samson, Micah)
330
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 23 Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Micah)
331
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "But who is this?" (Micah, Samson, Dalila)
332
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 25 Air: "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" (Dalila)
333
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Alas! th'event was worse than I foresaw" (Dalila) / Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila)
334
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 26 Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way" (Samson
335
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila)
336
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 27 Duet: "My (Her) faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Dalila, Virgin) / Act Two, Scene 2. No. 28 Chorus of Virgins: "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove"
337
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 29 Air & Chorus: "To fleeting pleasures make your court" (Dalila)
338
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!" (Samson, Dalila)
339
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 30 Duet: "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" (Dalila, Samson)
340
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 31 Air: "It is not virtue, valour, wit" (Micah)
341
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Favour'd of heav'n" (Samson)
342
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 32 Chorus of Israelites: "To man God's universal law"
343
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "No words of peace" (Micah, Harapha, Samson)
344
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 33 Air: "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" (Harapha)
345
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Put on your arms" (Samson)
346
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 34 Air: "My strength is from the living God"(Samson)
347
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "With thee! a man condemn'd" (Harapha, Samson)
348
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 35 Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go" (Samson, Harapha)
349
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Here lie the proof" (Micah)
350
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 36 Chorus of Israelites: "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!"
351
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Dagon, arise!" (Harapha)
352
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 37a Air: "To song and dance we give the day" (Philistine man)
353
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 37b Chorus of Philistines: "To song and dance we give the day" (Chorus)
354
Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 38 Corus of Israelites and Philistines: "Fix'd in his everlasting seat"
355
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "More trouble is behind: for Harapha" (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
356
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 39 Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath" (Harapha)
357
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson" (Micah, Samson)
358
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 40 Chorus of Israelites: "With thunder arm'd great God, arise!"
359
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Be of good courage" (Samson, Micah, Harapha)
360
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 42 Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (Samson)
361
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 43 Accompagnato: "With might endued above the sons of men" (Micah)
362
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 44 Air: "The Holy One of Israel by thy guide" (Micah)
363
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Old Manoa" (Micah, Manoa)
364
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 46 Air & Chorus of Philistines: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (Philistine man)
365
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?" (Manoa, Micah)
366
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 48 Air: "How willing my paternal love" (Manoa)
367
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" (Micah, Manoa) / Act Three, Scene 2. No. 49 Symphony / Act Three, Scene 2. No. 50 Chorus of Philistines: "Hear us, our God, oh hear our cry!"
368
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Noise call you this?" (Micah, Manoa)
369
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Where shall I run?" (Messenger, Micah, Manoa)
370
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 51 Air: "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" (Micah) / Act Three, Scene 3. No. 52 Chorus of Israelites: "Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain"
371
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Proceed we hence" (Manoa)
372
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 53 Dead March
373
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "The body comes" (Micah, Manoa)
374
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 54 Soli and Chorus of Israelites: "Glorious hero, may thy grave" (Manoa, Iraelite woman)
375
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Come, come!" (Manoa, Micah)
376
Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 55 Air: "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row" (Israelite woman) / Act Three, Scene 3. Chorus of Israelites: "Let their celestial concerts all unite"
377
Semele: Ouverture. Gavotte
378
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest)
379
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests)
380
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative and Arioso "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)
381
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Accompagnato "Ah me! What refuge now is left for me?" - Air "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" (Semele)
382
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele)
383
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)
384
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Air "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas)
385
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
386
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Quartetto "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
387
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests)
388
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 11 Accompagnato: "O miserable change! is this the man" (Manoa)
389
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Recitative "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)
390
Semele: Act I, Scene I. Chorus "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)
391
Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" (Samson)
392
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino)
393
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "She weeps!" (Athamas)
394
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Air "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)
395
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Recitative "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas)
396
Semele: Act I, Scene II. Duetto "You've undone me" / "With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas)
397
Semele: Act I, Scene III. "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!" - "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste" - "O prodigy, to me of dire portent!" / Scene IV. "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come"
398
Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Chorus "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs)
399
Semele: Act I, Scene IV. Air and Chorus "Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus)
400
Semele: Act II. Sinfonia
401
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
402
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)
403
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Recitative "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - Accompagnato "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)
404
Semele: Act II, Scene I. Air "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
405
Semele: Act II, Scene II. Air "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)
406
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele)
407
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)
408
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter)
409
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "With fond desiring" (Semele)
410
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs)
411
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "Ah me!" - "Why sighs my Semele?" (Semele, Jupiter)
412
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
413
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Chorus "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs)
414
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Recitative "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele)
415
Semele: Act II, Scene III. Air "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
416
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Recitative "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)
417
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Air "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)
418
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Duetto "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino)
419
Semele: Act II, Scene IV. Chorus "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains)
420
Semele: Act III. Symphony. Larghetto e piano per tutto
421
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Accompagnato "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris)
422
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus)
423
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)
424
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Air "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)
425
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Recitative "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
426
Semele: Act III, Scene I. Duetto "Obey my will" / "All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus)
427
Semele: Act III, Scene II. Air "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
428
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
429
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Behold in this mirror" (Juno)
430
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)
431
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)
432
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
433
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Accompagnato "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)
434
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Air "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)
435
Semele: Act III, Scene III. Recitative "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)
436
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)
437
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - Air "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele)
438
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "Speak, speak your desire" (Jupiter, Semele)
439
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Accompagnato "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter)
440
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Recitative "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - Accompagnato "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)
441
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter)
442
Semele: Act III, Scene IV. Air "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)
443
Semele: Act III, Scene V. Accompagnato "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
444
Semele: Act III, Scene VI. Air "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno)
445
Semele: Act III, Scene VII. Accompagnato "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)
446
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)
447
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Chorus "Oh, terror and astonishment!" (Chorus)
448
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
449
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Air "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas)
450
Semele: Act III, Scene VIII. Recitative "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)
451
Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Sinfonia
452
Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Accompagnato "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo)
453
Semele: Act III, Scene the last. Chorus "Happy, happy shall we be" (Chorus)
454
Overtura
455
Menuetto
456
Recitativo Accompagnato: See, with what sad dejection in her looks
457
Aria: No longer, Fate, relentless frown
458
Recitativo Accompagnato: O Hercules! why art thou absent from me?
459
Aria: The world, when day's career is run
460
Recitativo: Princess! be comforted, and hope the best ... My son! Dear image of thy absent sire!
461
Aria: I feel, I feel the god, he swells my breast!
462
Recitativo: He said, the sacred fury left his breast
463
Aria: There in myrtle shades reclined
464
Recitativo: Despair not; but let rising hope suspend
465
Aria: Where congealed the northern streams
466
Chorus: O filial piety! O gen'rous love!
467
Recitativo: Banish your fears!
468
Aria: Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away
469
Recitativo: A train of captives, red with honest wounds
470
Aria: The smiling hours, a joyful train
471
Chorus: Let none despair, relief may come though late
472
March
473
Recitativo: Thanks to the pow'rs above, but chief to thee
474
Aria: My father! Ah! methinks I see
475
Recitativo: Now farewell, arms!
476
Aria: The god of battle quits the bloody field
477
Recitativo: Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope
478
Aria: Daughter of gods, bright liberty!
479
Chorus: Crow with festal pomp the day
480
Sinfonia
481
Recitativo: Why was I born a princess
482
Aria: How blest the maid, ordained to dwell
483
Recitativo: It must be so! fame speaks aloud my wrongs
484
Aria: When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears
485
Recitativo: Whence this unjust suspicion?
486
Aria: Ah! Think what ills the jealous prove
487
Recitativo: It is too sure that Hercules is false ... my godlike master? - Is a traitor
488
Recitativo (cont.): In vain you strive his falsehood to disguise!
489
Chorus: Jealousy! Infernal pest
490
Recitativo: She knows my passion, and has heard me breathe
491
Aria: Banish love from thy breast
492
Recitativo: Forgive a passion, which resistless sways
493
Aria: From celestial seats descending
494
Chorus: Wanton god of amorous fires
495
Recitativo: Yes, I congratulate your titles
496
Aria: Alcides' name in latest story
497
Recitativo: O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!
498
Aria: Resign thy club and lion's spoils
499
Recitativo: You are deceived! Some villain has belied .. Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!
500
Aria: Cease, ruler of the day, to rise
501
Recitativo: Some kinder pow'r inspire me ... Lichas, thy hands shall to the temple bear
502
Aria: As stars, that rise and disappear
503
Recitativo: But see, the princess Iole. Retire! ... Forgive me, princess if my jealous frenzy
504
Duet: Joys of freedom, joys of pow'r
505
Recitativo: Father of Hercules, great Jove
506
Chorus: Love and Hymen, hand in hand
507
Sinfonia
508
Recitativo: Ye sons of Trachin, mourn your valiant chief
509
Aria: Oh scene of unexampled woe
510
Chorus: Tyrants now no more shall dread
511
Recitativo accompagnato: O Jove! What land is this
512
Recitativo: Great Jove! relieve his pains!
513
Aria: Let not fame the tidings spread
514
Recitativo accompagnato: Where shall I fly?
515
Recitativo: Lo! The fair, fatal cause of all this ruin!
516
Aria: My breast with tender pity swells
517
Recitativo: Princess, rejoice! Whose heav'n-directed hand
518
Aria: He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky
519
Recitativo: Words are too faint to speak the warring passions
520
Duet: O prince, whose virtues all admire
521
Recitativo: Ye sons of freedom, now, in ev'ry clime
522
Chorus: To him your grateful notes of praise belong
523
Belshazzar: Overture
524
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Accompagnato ed Arioso "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
525
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Nitocris)
526
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
527
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
528
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Babylonians)
529
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Well may they laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus); Accompagnato "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul" (Gobrias)
530
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
531
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Dry thoes unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
532
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem"; Accompagnato "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
533
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
534
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
535
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
536
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
537
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)
538
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "All empires upon God depend"
539
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Air "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (Daniel)
540
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Rejoice, my countrymen"; Air "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Daniel)
541
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Chorus, "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
542
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
543
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
544
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
545
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
546
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Jews)
547
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
548
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Duet "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
549
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Jews)
550
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
551
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Recitativo "You see, my friends, a path" (Cyrus)
552
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Air "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
553
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (Persians)
554
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
555
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)
556
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
557
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
558
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, A Sinfony (Allegro Postillions)
559
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)
560
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
561
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh king! live for ever!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
562
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)
563
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel)
564
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris); Air "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)
565
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Air "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)
566
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Recitativo "You, Gobrias, lead directry to the palace" (Cyrus)
567
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Chorus "Oh glorious prince!"
568
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris)
569
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "Fain would I hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)
570
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)
571
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
572
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Chorus "Bel boweth down" (Jews)
573
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, Air "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
574
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, A Martial Symphony
575
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Air "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (Gobrias)
576
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" (Cyrus); Air "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)
577
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Duet "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
578
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel)
579
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "Tell it out among the heathen"
580
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Yes, I will build thy city" (Cyrus)
581
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "I will magnify thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)
582
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Ouverture (without tempo indication - Allegro - Lentement - Allegro)
583
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 1 Chorus: "Mourn, ye afflicted children"
584
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Well, may our sorrows, brethren, flow" (Israelitish man, Israelitish woman)
585
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 2 Duet: "From this dread scene, these adverse pow'rs" (Israelitish woman and man)
586
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 3 Chorus: "For Sion lamentation make"
587
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Not vain is all the storm of grief" (Israelitish man)
588
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Pious orgies, pious airs" (Israelitish man)
589
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 5 Chorus: "Oh Father, whose Almighty pow'r"
590
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 6 Recitative: "I feel, I feel the Deity within" (Simon)
591
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 7 Air: "Arm, arm, ye brave!" (Simon)
592
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Chorus: "We come, we come, in bright array"
593
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "'Tis well, my friends" (Judas Maccabaeus)
594
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 8 Air: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul" (Judas Maccabaeus)
595
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "To Heav'n's Almighty king we kneel" (Israelitish woman)
596
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 9 Air: "Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure" (Israelitish woman)
597
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 10 Air: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Israelitish woman)
598
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire" (Israelitish man)
599
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 11 Air: "'Tis liberty, dear liberty alone" (Israelitish man)
600
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 12 Duet: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Israelitish woman and man)
601
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 13 Chorus: "Lead on, lead on! Judah disdains"
602
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 14 Recitative: "So will'd my father, now at rest" (Judas Maccabaeus)
603
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 15 Semichorus: "Disdainful of danger, we'll rush on the foe"
604
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Ambition! if e'er honour was thine aim" (Judas Maccabaeus)
605
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 16 Air: "No unhallow'd desire" (Judas Maccabaeus)
606
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Haste we, my brethren, haste we to the field" (Israelitish man)
607
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 17 Chorus: "Hear us, oh Lord, on thee we call"
608
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 18 Chorus: "Fall'n is the foe; so fall Thy foes, oh Lord!"
609
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Victorious hero! Fame shall tell" (Israelitish man)
610
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 19 Air: "So rapid thy course is" (Israelitish man)
611
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Well, may we hope our freedom to receive" (Israelitish man)
612
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 20 Duet And Chorus: "Sion now her head shall rise" (Israelitish woman and man)
613
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Oh let eternal honours crown his name" (Israelitish woman)
614
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 21 Air: "From mighty kings he took the spoil" (Israelitish woman)
615
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 22 Duet And Chorus: "Hail, hail, Judea, happy land!" (Israelitish woman and man)
616
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Thanks to my brethren, but look up to Heav'n" (Judas Maccabaeus)
617
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 23 Air: "How vain is man, who boasts in fight" (Judas Maccabaeus)
618
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Oh Judas, oh my brethren!" (Messenger)
619
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 24 Solo And Chorus: "Ah! wretched, wretched Israel!" (Israelitish woman)
620
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Be comforted, - nor think these plagues are sent" (Simon)
621
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 25 Air: "The Lord worketh wonders" (Simon)
622
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "My arms! - against this Gorgias will I go" (Judas Maccabaeus)
623
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 26 Solo and Chorus: "Sound an alarm! your silver trumpets sound" (Judas Maccabaeus) ... "We hear, we hear the pleasing, dreadful call" (Chorus)
624
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Enough!" To Heav'n we leave the rest" (Simon)
625
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 27a Air: "With pious hearts, and brave as pious" (Simon)
626
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Ye worshippers of God" (Israelitish man, Israelitish woman)
627
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 27b Air: "Wise men, flatt'ring, may deceive us" (Israelitish woman)
628
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 28 Duet and Chorus: "Oh! never, never bow we down" (Israelitish woman and man)
629
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 29 Air: "Father of Heav'n! from Thy eternal throne" (Israelitish man)
630
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 30 Recitative: "See, see yon flames, that from the altar broke" (Israelitish man)
631
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Oh grant it, Heav'n, that our long woes may cease" (Israelitish woman)
632
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 31 Air: "So shall the lute and harp awake" (Israelitish woman)
633
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "From Capharsalama, on eagle wings I fly" (Messenger, Simon)
634
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Chorus Of Youths: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!" - Chorus Of Virgins: "See, the godlike youth advance!": Chorus: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!"
635
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 32 March
636
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 33 Chorus: "Sing unto God, and high affections raise"
637
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Sweet flow the strains, that strike my feasted ear" (Judas Maccabaeus)
638
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 34 Air: "With honour let desert be crown'd" (Judas Maccabaeus)
639
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Peace to my countrymen; peace, and liberty" (Eupolemus)
640
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 35 Chorus: "To our great God be all the honours giv'n"
641
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Again to earth let gratitude descend" (Israelitish woman)
642
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 36 Air, Duet: "Oh lovely peace, with plenty crown'd" (Israelitish woman and man)
643
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 37 Solo and Chorus: "Rejoice, oh Judah! and in songs divine" (Simon)
644
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Chorus: "Hallelujah! Amen"
645
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I. Overture
646
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Your harps and cymbals" (Chorus)
647
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Praise ye the Lord" (Levite)
648
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "With pious heart" (Chorus)
649
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Almighty Power" (Solomon)
650
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Imperial Solomon" (Zadok)
651
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Sacred raptures" (Zadok)
652
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Throughout the land" (Chorus)
653
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "Bless'd be the Lord" (Solomon)
654
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene I. "What though I trace" (Solomon)
655
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "And see my Queen" (Solomon)
656
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Bless'd the day" (Queen)
657
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Thou fair inhabitant of Nile" (Solomon, Queen)
658
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Welcome as the dawn of day" (Solomon, Queen)
659
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Vain are the transient beauties" (Zadok)
660
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Indulge thy faith" (Zadok)
661
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "My blooming fair" (Solomon)
662
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Haste to the cedar grove" (Solomon)
663
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "When thou art absent" (Queen)
664
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "With thee th'unshelter'd moor l'd tread" (Queen)
665
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "Search round the world" (Zadok)
666
Solomon, HWV 67: Act I, Scene II. "May no rash intruder" (Chorus)
667
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene I. "From the censer" (Chorus)
668
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene I. "Prais'd be the Lord" (Solomon)
669
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene I. "When the sun o'er yonder hills" (Solomon)
670
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene I. "Great prince" (Levite)
671
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene I. "Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king" (Levite)
672
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene II. "My sovereign liege" (Solomon, 1st Harlot)
673
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Words are weak" (1st Harlot, 2nd Harlot, Solomon)
674
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "What says the other" (Solomon, 2nd Harlot)
675
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Thy sentence, great king" (2nd Harlot)
676
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Withold, withold the executing hand!" (1st Harlot)
677
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Can I see my infant gor'd" (1st Harlot)
678
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Israel, attend" (Solomon)
679
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Thrice bless'd be the king" (1st Harlot, Solomon)
680
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "From the east unto the west" (Chorus)
681
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "From morn to eve" (Zadok)
682
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "See the tall palm" (Zadok)
683
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "No more shall armed bands" (1st Harlot)
684
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Beneath the vine" (1st Harlot)
685
Solomon, HWV 67: Act II, Scene III. "Swell, swell the full chorus" (Chorus)
686
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. Sinfony: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
687
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "From Arabia's spicy shores" (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
688
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba)
689
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Sweep, sweep the string" (Solomon)
690
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Music, spread thy voice around" (Solomon, Chorus)
691
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Now a diff'rent measure... Shake the dome" (Solomon, Chorus)
692
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Then at once from rage remove" (Solomon)
693
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Draw the tear from hopeless love" (Chorus)
694
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Next the tortur'd soul release" (Solomon)
695
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Thus rolling surges rise" (Solomon, Chorus)
696
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Thy harmony's divine" (Queen of Sheba)
697
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Pious king" (Levite)
698
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Thrice happy king" (Zadok)
699
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Golden columns" (Zadok)
700
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Praise the Lord" (Chorus)
701
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Gold now is common" (Solomon)
702
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "How green our fertile pastures look!" (Solomon)
703
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "May peace in Salem ever dwell" (Queen of Sheba)
704
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Will the sun forget to streak" (Queen of Sheba)
705
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Adieu, fair queen" (Solomon)
706
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows" (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
707
Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. "The name of the wicked" (Chorus)
708
Theodora, HWV 68: Ouverture
709
Theodora, HWV 68: Trio
710
Theodora, HWV 68: Courante
711
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "'Tis Dioclesian's natal day" (Valens)
712
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Go, my faithful soldier, go" (Valens)
713
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus of Heathens: "And draw a blessing down"
714
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Vouchsafe, dread Sir" (Didymus, Valens)
715
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 3 Air: "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" (Valens)
716
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 4 Chorus of Heathens: "For ever thus stand fix'd"
717
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Most cruel edict" (Didymus)
718
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "The raptur'd soul" (Didymus)
719
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "I know thy virtues" (Septimius)
720
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Descend, kind Pity" (Septimius)
721
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Though hard, my friends" (Theodora)
722
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 7 Air: "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu" (Theodora)
723
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Oh bright example" (Irene)
724
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 8 Air: "Bane of virtue" (Irene)
725
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 9 Chorus of Christians: "Come, mighty Father"
726
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. Recitative: "Fly, fly, my brethren" (Messenger, Irene) - Recitative: "Ah! whither should we fly?" (Irene)
727
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. No. 10 Air: "As with rosy steps the morn" (Irene)
728
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. No. 11 Chorus: "All pow'r in heav'n"
729
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Mistaken wretches!" (Septimius)
730
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. No. 12 Air: "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" (Septimius)
731
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Deluded mortal" (Septimius) - No. 13 Accompagnato: "O worse than death indeed" (Theodora)
732
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "Angels, ever bright and fair" (Theodora)
733
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!" (Didymus, Irene)
734
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. No. 15 Air: "Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care" (Didymus)
735
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Oh love! how great thy pow'r" (Irene)
736
Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. No. 16 Chorus of Christians: "Go, gen'rous pious youth"
737
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Ye men of Antioch" (Valens)
738
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Chorus of Heathens: "Queen of summer"
739
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "Wide spread his name" (Valens)
740
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Return, Septimius" (Valens)
741
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 19 Chorus of Heathens: "Venus laughing from the skies"
742
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Sinfonia
743
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh thous bright sun!" (Theodora)
744
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21a Air: "With darkness deep" (Theodora)
745
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21b Sinfonia (original version)
746
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (Theodora)
747
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Air: "Oh that I on wings could rise" (Theodora)
748
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Long have I known" (Didymus, Septimius)
749
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Air: "Though the honours, that Flora" (Septimius)
750
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "O save her then" (Didymus, Septimius)
751
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "Deeds of kindness to display" (Didymus)
752
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "The clouds begin to veil" (Irene)
753
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 4. No. 25: "Defend her, Heav'n" (Irene)
754
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "Or lull'd with grief" (Didymus)
755
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 26: "Sweet rose and lily" (Didymus)
756
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "O save me, Heav'n" (Theodora, Didymus)
757
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 27 Air: "The pilgrim's home" (Theodora)
758
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 28 Accompagnato: "Forbid it, Heav'n!" (Didymus) - Recitative: "Or, say, what Right have I" (Didymus) - Recitative: "Ah! what is liberty" (Didymus, Theodora)
759
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 29 Duet: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (Theodora, Didymus)
760
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 6. Recitative: "'Tis night" (Irene)
761
Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 6. No. 30 Chorus of Christians: "He saw the lovely youth"
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh thou bright sun!" (alternative ending) (Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. No. 21c Sinfonia (alternative ending)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. No. 22 Air: "Oh that I on wings could rise" (Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 31 Air: "Lord, to thee each night and day" (Irene)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "But see, the good, the virtuous" (Irene)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 32 Air: "When sunk in anguish and despair" (Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 33 Solo and Chorus of Christians: "Blest be the hand" (Theodora): Sc.2
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Undaunted in the court" (Messenger, Irene) - No. 34 Accompagnato: "Oh my Irene, Heav'n is kind" (Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. No. 35 Duet: "Whither, Princess, do you fly?" (Irene, Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "She's gone disdaining liberty and life" (Irene)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. No. 36 Air: "New scenes of joy come crowding on" (Irene)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Is it a Christian virtue then" (Valens, Didymus) / Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Be that my doom" (Theodora, Septimius)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 37 Air: "From virtue springs each gen'rous deed" (Septimius)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 38 Air: "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" (Valens)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "'Tis kind, my friends" (Didymus, Theodora)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Chorus of Christians: "How strange their ends"
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "On me your frowns" (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 40 Air: "Ye ministers of justice" (Valens)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. Recitative: "And must such beauty suffer" (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. No. 41 Air and Duet: "Streams of pleasure ever flowing" - "Thither let our hearts aspire" (Didymus, Theodora): Sc.6
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. Recitative: "Ere this their doom is past" (Irene)
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Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. No. 42 Chorus of Christians: "O Love divine"
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Jephtha: Overture / Menuet
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 1. "No more to Ammon's god and king"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "But Jephtha comes"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 2. "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" / "In gentle murmurs will I mourn"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" / "Dull delay, in piercing anguish"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" / "Take the heart you fondly gave"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 3. "I go, My soul, inspir'd by thy command" / "These labours past, how happy we!"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 4. "What mean these doubtful fancies"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 4. "O God, behold our sore distress"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 5. "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" / "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 6. "Say, my dear mother"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 6. "The smiling dawn of happy days"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 7. "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply"
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Jephtha: Act I, Scene 7. "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "Up the dreadful steep ascending"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 1. "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" / "Tune the soft melodious lute"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 2. "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people" / "His mighty arm, with sudden blow"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "In glory high, in might serene"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. Symphony / "Hail glorious conqueror!"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Welcome as the cheerful light"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Horror! confusion!" / "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "Why is my brother thus afflicted"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "If such thy cruel purpose" / "On me let blind mistaken zeal"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 3. "O spare your daughter"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "Such news flies swift"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "Happy they! this vital breath"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "Deeper, and deeper still"
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Jephtha: Act II, Scene 4. "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Waft her, angels, through the skies"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Ye sacred priests" / "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. Symphony
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 1. "Theme sublime of endless praise"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "Let me congratulate this happy turn" / "Laud her, all ye virgin train"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" / "Sweet as sight to the blind"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" / "All that is in Hamor mine"
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Jephtha: Act III, Scene 2. "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"
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