Catherine Robbin

Belshazzar

Featuring
Release date 1990

Tracklist

1
Belshazzar: Overture
4:38
4:38
2
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Accompagnato ed Arioso "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
5:05
5:05
3
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Nitocris)
3:58
3:58
4
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
1:14
1:14
5
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
4:55
4:55
6
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Babylonians)
2:48
2:48
7
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Well may they laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus); Accompagnato "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul" (Gobrias)
1:18
1:18
8
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
3:33
3:33
9
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Dry thoes unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
2:12
2:12
10
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem"; Accompagnato "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
2:35
2:35
11
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
1:14
1:14
12
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
3:16
3:16
13
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
0:15
0:15
14
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
3:49
3:49
15
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)
0:41
0:41
16
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "All empires upon God depend"
3:15
3:15
17
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Air "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (Daniel)
5:13
5:13
18
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Rejoice, my countrymen"; Air "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Daniel)
2:59
2:59
19
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Chorus, "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
4:10
4:10
20
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
5:02
5:02
21
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
0:53
0:53
22
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
7:33
7:33
23
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
1:22
1:22
24
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Jews)
3:53
3:53
25
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
1:22
1:22
26
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Duet "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
7:15
7:15
27
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Jews)
4:24
4:24
28
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
6:26
6:26
29
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Recitativo "You see, my friends, a path" (Cyrus)
0:45
0:45
30
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Air "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
4:23
4:23
31
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (Persians)
0:35
0:35
32
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
2:58
2:58
33
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)
2:38
2:38
34
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
2:41
2:41
35
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
0:21
0:21
36
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, A Sinfony (Allegro Postillions)
1:42
1:42
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)
1:05
1:05
38
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
1:50
1:50
39
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh king! live for ever!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
1:39
1:39
40
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)
1:30
1:30
41
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel)
3:13
3:13
42
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris); Air "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)
7:00
7:00
43
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Air "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)
4:38
4:38
44
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Recitativo "You, Gobrias, lead directry to the palace" (Cyrus)
1:01
1:01
45
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Chorus "Oh glorious prince!"
4:54
4:54
46
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris)
4:27
4:27
47
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "Fain would I hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)
0:22
0:22
48
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)
2:26
2:26
49
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
1:51
1:51
50
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Chorus "Bel boweth down" (Jews)
1:31
1:31
51
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, Air "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
1:37
1:37
52
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, A Martial Symphony
0:39
0:39
53
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Air "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (Gobrias)
2:44
2:44
54
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" (Cyrus); Air "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)
2:55
2:55
55
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Duet "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
3:58
3:58
56
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel)
0:55
0:55
57
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "Tell it out among the heathen"
1:37
1:37
58
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Yes, I will build thy city" (Cyrus)
2:22
2:22
59
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "I will magnify thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)
5:26
5:26