Handel: Oratorios (Messiah, Saul, Alexanders Feast, Belshazzar, Ode on St Cecilias Day). Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 Symphony
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "comfort Ye, Comfort Ye My People" [tenor]
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "ev'ry Valley" [tenor]
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Handel : Messiah Hwv56 : "and The Glory Of The Lord" [chorus]
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Acc.(Basso): Thus saith the Lord
Marjana Lipovsek
Air (Alto): But who may abide the day of His coming
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Chorus: And he shall purify
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive" [mezzo-Soprano]
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "o Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion" [alto]
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Acc.(Basso): For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
Marjana Lipovsek
Air (Basso): The people that walked in darkness
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "for Unto Us A Child Is Born" [chorus]
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Pastoral Symphony (Pifa)
Marjana Lipovsek
Rec.(Soprano): These were sheperds abiding
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Acc.(Soprano): And lo, the angel of the Lord came upom them
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Rec.(Soprano): And the angel said unto them
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "and Suddenly There Was The Angel" [soprano]
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Messiah : Part 1 "Glory to God in the highest" [Chorus]
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 1 "rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion" [soprano]
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Rec.(Alto): The shall the eyes of the blind be open'd..
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Duet (Alto, Soprano): He shall feed His flock like a sheperd
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Chorus: His yoke is easy, His burthen is light
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 2 "behold The Lamb Of God" [chorus]
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 2 "he Was Despised" [alto]
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Chorus: Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
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Chorus: And with tripes we are healed
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Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray
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Acc.(Tenore): All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn
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Chorus: He trusted in God
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Acc.(Soprano): Thy rebuke hath His heart
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Arioso (Soprano): Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
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Acc.(Tenore): He was cut off out of the land of living
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Air (Tenore): But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell
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Chorus: Lift up our heads
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Rec.(Tenore): Unto which of the angels said He at any time
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Messiah Hwv56 : Let All The Angels Of God Worship Him
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Air (Alto): Thou art gone on high
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Chorus: The Lord gave the word
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Air (Soprano): How beautiful are the feet of them
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Chorus: Their sound is gone out into all lands
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Air (Basso): Why do the nations so furiously rage together
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Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
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Rec.(Tenore): He that dwelleth in heaven
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Air (Tenore): Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 2 "hallelujah" [chorus]
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 3 "i Know That My Redeemer Liveth" [soprano]
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Chorus: Since by man came death
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 3 "behold, I Tell You A Mystery" [bass]
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Messiah Hwv56 : Part 3 "the Trumpet Shall Sound" [bass]
Marjana Lipovsek
Rec.(Alto): Then shall be brought to pass
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Duet (Alto, Tenore): O death where is thy sting ?
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Chorus: But thanks be to God
Marjana Lipovsek
Air (Soprano): If God be for us who can be against us
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Messiah Hwv56 : "worthy Is The Lamb That Was Slain" [chorus]
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Saul : Symphony
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Saul : Act 1 "How excellent thy name, oh Lord" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 1 "An infant rais'd by thy command" [Soprano]
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Saul : Act 1 "Along the monster atheist strode" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass]
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Saul Hwv53 : Act 1 "the Youth Inspir'd By Thee, Oh Lord" "how Excellent Thy Name, Oh Lord" [chorus]
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Saul : Act 1 "He comes, he comes!" "Oh godlike youth!" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 1 "Behold, oh King, the brave, victorious youth" [Abner, Saul, David] "Oh King, your favours with delight I t
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Saul : Act 1 "Oh early piety!" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 1 "What abject thoughts a prince can have!" "Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow" [Merab]
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Saul : Act 1 "Birth and fortune I despise!" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 1 "Thou, Merab, first in birth" [Saul, Merab] "My soul rejects the thought with scorn" [Merab]
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Saul : Act 1 "See, with what a scornful air" "Ah! lovely youth!" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 1 Symphony
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Saul : Act 1 "Already see the daughters" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 1 "Welcome, welcome, mighty king!" "Saul, who has thy thousands slain" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 1 "What do I hear?" [Saul] "David his ten thousands slew" [Chorus] "To him ten thousands!" [Saul] "With rage
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Saul : Act 1 "Imprudent women!" [Jonathan, Michal] "Fell rage and black despair possess'd" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 1 "Rack'd with infernal pains" [Abner]
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Saul Hwv53 : Act 1 "oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" [david]
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Saul : Act 1 "'Tis all in vain" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 1 "A serpent, in my bosom warm'd" "Has he escap'd my rage" [Saul]
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Saul : Act 1 "Capricious man" [Merab]
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Saul : Act 1 "Oh filial piety!" "No, cruel father, no!" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 1 "Preserve him for the glory of thy name" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 2 "Envy! eldest born of hell!" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 2 "Ah! dearest friend" "But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" "My father comes" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 2 "Hast thou obey'd my orders" [Saul, Jonathan] "Sin not, oh king, against the youth" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 2 "As great Jehovah lives" [Saul]
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Saul : Act 2 "From cities storm'd, and battles won" [Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 2 "Appear, my friend" [Jonathan, Saul]
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Saul : Act 2 "Your words, oh king" [David]
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Saul : Act 2 "Yes, he shall wed my daughter!" [Saul]
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Saul : Act 2 "A father's will" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 2 "Oh fairest of ten thousand fair" [Michal, David]
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Saul : Act 2 "Is there a man" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 2 Concerto
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Saul : Act 2 "Thy father is as cruel" [David] "At persecution I can laugh" [Daivd, Michal]
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Saul : Act 2 "Whom dost thou seek?" [Michal, Doeg] "No, no, let the guilty tremble" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 2 "Mean as he was" "Author of peace" [Merab]
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Saul : Act 2 Symphony
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Saul : Act 2 "The time at length is come" [Saul]
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Saul : Act 2 "Where is the son of Jesse?" [Saul, Jonathan]
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Saul : Act 2 "O fatal consequence of rage" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 3 "Wretch that I am!" "'Tis said, here lives a woman" [Saul]
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Saul : Act 3 "With me what wouldst thou?" [Witch, Saul] "Infernal spirits" [Witch]
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Saul : Act 3 "Why has thou forc'd me" [Samuel, Saul]
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Saul : Act 3 Symphony
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Saul : Act 3 "Whence comst thou?" [David, Amalekite] "Impious wretch, of race accurst!" [David]
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Saul Hwv53 : Act 3 Dead March
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Saul : Act 3 "Mourn, Israel" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 3 "O let it not in Gath be heard" [Jonathan] "From this unhappy day" [Michal]
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Saul : Act 3 "Eagles were not so swift as they" [Chorus]
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Saul : Act 3 "In sweetest harmony" [Merab] "O fatal day!" [David, Chorus]
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Saul : Act 3 "Ye men of Judah, weep no more!" [High Priest]
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Saul Hwv53 : Act 3 "gird On Thy Sword" [chorus]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Overture
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "'twas At The Royal Feast, For Persia Won By Philip's Warlike Son" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "happy Pair! None But The Brave Deserves The Fair" [tenor] "happy Pair! None But The Br
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "timotheus, Plac'd On High Amid The Tuneful Quire" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the Song Began From Jove" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the List'ning Crowd Admire The Lofty Sound" [chorus]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "with Ravish'd Ears The Monarch Hears" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the Praise Of Bacchus Then The Sweet Musician Sung" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "bacchus, Ever Fair And Young" [chorus] "bacchus' Blessings Are A Treasure" [bass]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "sooth'd With The Sound, The King Grew Vain" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "he Chose A Mournful Muse" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "he Sung Darius, Great And Good, By Too Severe A Fate Fall'n" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "with Downcast Looks The Joyless Victor Sate" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "behold Darius, Great And Good, By Too Severe A Fate Fall'n" [chorus]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the Mighty Master Smil'd To See That Love Was In The Next Degree" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "softly Sung In Lydian Measures Soon He Sooth'd The Soul" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "war, He Sung, Is Toil And Trouble" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the Many Rend The Skies With Loud Applause" [chorus]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the Prince, Unable To Conceal His Pain" [soprano]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 1 "the Many Rend The Skies With Loud Applause" [chorus]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "now Strike The Golden Lyre Again!" [chorus] "break His Bands Of Sleep Asunder... Hark,
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries" [bass]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "give The Vengeance Due To The Valiant Crew" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "the Princes Applaud With A Furious Joy" [tenor]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "thais Led The Way, To Light Him To His Prey" [chorus] "the Princes Applaud With A Furi
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "thus, Long Ago, Ere Heaving Bellows Learned To Blow" [chorus] "at Last Divine Cecilia
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "let Old Timotheus Yield The Prize" [tenor, Bass]
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Alexander's Feast Hwv75 : Part 2 "let Old Timotheus Yield The Prize, Or Both Divide The Crown" [soprano, Tenor, Bass, Ch
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Overture I "from Harmony, From Heavn'ly Harmony" [tenor] "when Nature Underneath A Heap
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Ii "from Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony" [chorus]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Iii "what Passion Cannot Music Raise And Quell" [soprano]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Iv "the Trumpet's Loud Clangor" [tenor, Chorus]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : V La Marche
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Vi "the Soft Complaining Flute" [soprano]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Vii "sharp Violins Proclaim" [tenor]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Viii "but Oh! What Art Can Teach..." [soprano]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Ix "orpheus Could Lead The Savage Race" [soprano]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : X "but Bright Cecilia Rais'd The Wonder High'r" [soprano]
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Ode For St Cecilia's Day Hwv76 : Xi "as From The Pow'r Of Sacred Lays" [chorus]
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Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus]
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Belshazzar Hwv61 : Act 1 "all Empires" [chorus]
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Belshazzar Hwv61 : Act 1 "oh Sacred Oracles" [daniel]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "It is the custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]
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Belshazzar : Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar Hwv61 : Act 2 "see From His Post" "why, Faithless River" "euphrates Hath His Task" "of Things On Earth" [chor
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Let the deep bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where is the God" [Chorus] "Help, help the king!" [Chorus, Belshazz
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!"
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus]
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Belshazzar Hwv61 : Act 2 "oh Glorious Prince!" [chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus]
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Belshazzar : Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger]