Handel: Belshazzar. Auger · Rolfe Johnson · Bowman. The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Belshazzar (Oratorio); HWV 61
1-1 Ouverture (Maestoso - Allegro) 4:38
Act One
Scene 1
1-2 Accompagnato Ed Arioso: "Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire" (Nitocris) 5:06
1-3 Air; "Thou, God Most High, Ad Thou Alone" (Nitocris) 4:00
1-4 Recitativo: "The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel) 1:15
1-5 Air: "Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!" (Daniel) 4:55
Scene 2
1-6 Chorus: "Behold, By Persia's Hero Made" (Babylonians) 2:49
1-7 Recitativo: " Well May They Laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul" (Gobrias) 1:19
1-8 Air: " Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief" (Gobrias) 3:33
1-9 Air: " Dry Those Unvailing Tears" (Gobrias) 2:13
1-10 Recitativo: " Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem" (Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates" (Cyrus) 2:35
1-11 Recitativo: "Now, Tell Me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias) 1:14
1-12 Air: " Bethold The Monsterous Human Beast" (Gobrias) 3:16
1-13 Recitativo: "Can You Then Think It Strange" (Cyrus) 0:16
1-14 Air: "Great God! Who Yet But Darkly Known" (Cyrus) 3:49
1-15 Recitativo: "My Friends, Be Confident" (Cyrus) 0:41
1-16 Chorus: "All Empires Upon God Depend" 3:15
Scene 3
1-17 Air: "Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!" (Daniel) 5:14
1-18 Accompagato: "Rejoice, My Countrymen" (Daniel) Air: "Thus Saith The Lord To Cyrus (Daniel) 2:30
1-19 Chorus: "Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!" 4:11
Scene 4
2-1 Air: "Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!" (Belshazzar) 5:03
2-2 Recitiativo: "For You, My Friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris) 0:54
2-3 Air: "The Leafy Honours Of The Field" (Nitocris) 7:34
2-4 Recustom, I May Say, The Law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris) 1:23
2-5 Chorus: "Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command" (Jews) 3:54
2-6 Recitativo: "They Tell You The True" (Nitocris, Belshazzar) 1:23
2-7 Duet: "Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar) 7:15
2-8 Chorus: "By Slow Degrees The Warth Of God" (Jews) 4:16
Act Two
Scene 1
2-9 Chorus: "See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!" 6:27
2-10 Recitativo: "You See, My Friends, A Path" (Cyrus) 0:16
2-11 Air: "Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near" (Cyrus) 4:24
2-12 Chorus: "To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!" (Persians) 0:35
Scene 2
2-13 Chorus: "Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire" 2:59
2-14 Air: "Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess" (Belshazzar) 2:38
2-15 Accompagnato: "Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus) 2:41
2-16 Recitativo: "Call All My Wise Men" (Belshazzar) 0:26
3-1 A Sinfony (Allegro Postillons) 1:43
3-2 Recitativo: "Yes Sages! Welcome Always To You King" (Belshazzar) "Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes" (Wise Men) 1:06
3-3 Chorus: "Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!" 1:50
3-4 Recitativo: "Oh King, Live For Ever!" (Nicotris, Belshazzar) 1:40
3-5 Air: "No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be" (Daniel) 1:31
3-6 Accompagnato: "Yet, To Obey His Dread Command" (Daniel) 3:13
3-7 Recitativo: "Oh Sentence Too Severe!" (Nitocris) Air: Regard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears" (Nitocris) 6:57
Scene 3
3-8 Air: Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!" (Cyrus) 4:37
3-9 Recitativo: "You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace" (Cyrus) 1:02
3-10 Chorus: "Oh Glorious Prince!" 4:41
Act Three
Scene 1
3-11 Air: "Alternate Hopes And Fears" (Nitocris) 4:28
3-12 Recitativo: "Fain Would I Hope" (Nitocris, Daniel) 0:23
3-13 Air: "Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?" (Daniel) 2:26
3-14 Recitativo: "My Hopes Revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger) 1:51
3-15 Chorus: "Bel Boweth Down!" (Jews) 1:31
Scene 2
3-16 Air: "I Thank Thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar) 1:38
3-17 A Martial Symphony 0:39
Scene 3
3-18 Air: " To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks" (Gobrias) 2:45
3-19 Recitativo: "Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias" (Cyrus) Air: "Destructive War, Thy Limits Know" (Cyrus) 2:55
3-20 Duet: "Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus) 3:59
3-21 Recitativo: "Say, Venerable Porphet" (Cyrus, Daniel 0:56
3-22 Chorus: "Tell It Out Among The Heathen" 1:58
3-23 Accompagnato: "Yes, I Will Build The City" (Cyrus) 2:22
3-24 Chorus: "I Will Magnify Thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus) 5:28