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Handel: Belshazzar

Arleen Augér, Julia Gooding, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Nicolas Robertson, Nigel Short, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, Richard Wistreich, David Wilson-Johnson

The English Concert Choir / The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Handel: Belshazzar

Handel: Belshazzar

Arleen Augér, Julia Gooding, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Nicolas Robertson, Nigel Short, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, Richard Wistreich, David Wilson-Johnson

The English Concert Choir / The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

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Handel: Belshazzar
Work length2:50:43
Overture
Track length4:38
"Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"
Track length5:06
"Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"
Track length3:59
"The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"
Track length1:14
"Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"
Track length4:54
"Behold, by Persia's hero made"
Track length2:48
"Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"
Track length1:19
"Opprest with never-ceasing grief"
Track length3:32
"Dry those unavailing tears"
Track length2:12
"Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"
Track length2:35
"Now, tell me, Gobrias"
Track length1:14
"Behold the monstrous human beast"
Track length3:15
"Can you then think it strange"
Track length0:16
"Great God! who, yet but darkly known"
Track length3:49
"My friends, be confident"
Track length0:41
"All empires upon God depend"
Track length3:15
"Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"
Track length5:13
"Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"
Track length2:59
"Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
Track length4:10
"Let festal joy triumphant reign!"
Track length5:03
"For you, my friends"
Track length0:53
"The leafy honours of the field"
Track length7:33
"It is the custom, I may say, the law"
Track length1:23
"Recall, oh king! thy rash command"
Track length3:53
"They tell you true"
Track length1:22
"Oh dearer than my life, forebear!"
Track length7:15
"By slow degrees the wrath of God"
Track length4:15
"See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
Track length6:27
"You see, my friends, a path"
Track length0:45
"Amaz'd to find the foe so near"
Track length4:23
"To arms, to arms! no more delay!"
Track length0:34
"Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
Track length2:58
"Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"
Track length2:38
"Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"
Track length2:41
"Call all my Wise Men"
Track length0:25
A Sinfony
Track length1:43
"Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes"
Track length1:05
"Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
Track length1:49
"Oh king, live for ever!"
Track length1:39
"No! to thyself thy trifles be"
Track length1:30
"Yet, to obey his dread command"
Track length3:13
"Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"
Track length6:57
"Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!"
Track length4:37
"You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"
Track length1:02
"Oh glorious prince!"
Track length4:40
"Alternate hopes and fears"
Track length4:28
"Fain would I hope"
Track length0:23
"Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"
Track length2:26
"My hopes revive"
Track length1:51
"Bel boweth down!"
Track length1:30
"I thank thee, Sesach"
Track length1:37
A Martial Symphony
Track length0:39
"To pow'r immortal my first thanks"
Track length2:44
"Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"
Track length2:54
"Great victor, at your feet I bow"
Track length3:58
"Say, venerable prophet"
Track length0:55
"Tell it out among the heathen"
Track length1:37
"Yes, I will build thy city"
Track length2:21
"I will magnify thee"
Track length5:28
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