Handel: Saul

Vorspann
Allegro (Sinfonia)
Larghetto
Allegro
Andante larghetto
Chor: How excellent thy name, O Lord (1. Akt)
Arie: An infant rais'd by thy command - Chor: Along the monster atheist strode
Chor: The youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord
Chor: How excellent thy name, O Lord
Rezitativ: He comes - Arie: O godlike youth!
Rezitativ: Behold, O King, the brave victorious youth
Arie: O King, your favours with delight I take - Rezitativ: O early piety!
Arie: What abject thoughts a prince can have - Rezitativ: Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow
Arie: Birth and fortune I despise!
Rezitativ: Go on, illustrious pair! - Arie: While yet thy tide of blood runs high
Rezitativ: Thou, Merab, first in birth - Arie: My soul rejects the thought with thorn - Arie: See, see with what a...
Sinfonia - Rezitativ: Already see
Chor: Welcome, welcome mighty King!
Accompagnato: What do I hear? - Chor: David his ten thousands slew - Accompagnato: To him ten thousands!
Arie: With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!
Rezitativ: Imprudent women! - Arie: Fell rage and black despair possessed
Rezitativ: This but the smallest part of harmony - Accompagnato: By thee this universal frame
Rezitativ: Rack'd with infernal pains - Arie: O Lord, whose mercies numberless - Sinfonia
Rezitativ: 'Tis all in vain - Arie: A serpent in my bosom warm'd - Rezitativ: Has he escap'd my rage?
Arie: Capricious man
Accompagnato: O filial piety!
Arie: No, no cruel Father, no
Arie: O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence
Chor: Preserve him for the glory of thy name
Chor: Envy! Eldestborn of hell! (2. Akt)
Rezitativ: Ah! dearest friend - Arie: But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear
Rezitativ: O strange vicissitude! - Arie: Such haughty beauties
Rezitativ: My father comes
Rezitativ: Hast thou obey'd my orders - Arie: Sin not, O King, against the youth
Arie: As great Jehovah lives
Arie: From cities storm'd, and battles won
Rezitativ: Appear, my friend - Arie: Your words, O King - Rezitativ: Yes, he shall wed my daughter!
Rezitativ: A father's will - Duett: O fairest of ten thousand fair - Chor: Is there a man
Sinfonia
Rezitativ: Thy father is as cruel - Duett: At persecution I can laugh
Rezitativ: Whom dost thou seek?
Arie: No, no, let the guilty tremble
Rezitativ: Mean as he was - Arie: Author of peace
Sinfonia
Accompagnato: The time at length is come
Rezitativ: Where is the son of Jesse?
Chor: O fatal consequence of rage
Accompagnato: Wretch that I am - Rezitativ und Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a woman (3. Akt)
Rezitativ: With me what would'st thou?
Arie: Infernal spirits
Accompagnato und Rezitativ: Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace
Sinfonia
Rezitativ: Whence comest thou? - Arie: Impious wretch, of race accurst
Marsch
Chor: Mourn Israel
Arie: O let it not in Gath be heard
Arie: From this unhappy day
Arie: Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew
Chor: Eagles were not so swift as they
Arie: In sweetest harmony
Solo und Chor: O fatal day!
Rezitativ: Ye men of Judah, weep no more
Chor: Gird on thy sword
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