Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha

George Frideric Handel

album·1979·90 tracks·5 hr 48 min

Warner Classics International

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Tracks

90 tracks

1

Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1

4:31

2

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Vain, fluctuating state” (Nitocris)

5:06

3

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Thou, God most high” (Nitocris)

4:06

4

Belshazzar : Act 1 “The fate of Babylon” [Nitocris] “Oh much belov’d” [Nitocris, Daniel]

1:19

5

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Lament not thus” (Daniel)

4:49

6

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Behold, by Persia’s hero made” [Chorus]

2:56

7

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Well may they laugh” [Gobrias, Cyrus] “Oh memory!” [Gobrias]

1:29

8

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Oppress’d with never‐ceasing grief” (Gobrias)

3:09

9

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Dry those anavailing tears” (Cyrus)

2:37

10

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Be comforted” [Cyrus] “Methought, as on the bank” [Cyrus] “Now tell me, Gobrias” [Cyrus, Gobrias]

4:07

11

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Behold the monstrous human beast” (Gobrias)

3:16

12

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Can you then think” “Great God! who, yet but darkly known” “My friends, be confident” [Cyrus]

4:50

13

Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 “All empires” [Chorus]

3:39

14

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Oh sacred oracles” (Daniel)

5:17

15

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Rejoice, my countrymen” “For long ago” “Thus saith the Lord” [Daniel]

3:07

16

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Sing, oh ye heav’ns!” [Chorus]

4:34

17

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Let festal joy” (Belshazzar)

4:54

18

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “For you, my friends” (Belshazzar, Nitocris)

1:02

19

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “The leafy honours” (Nitocris)

8:18

20

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “It is the custom” (Belshazzar, Nitocris)

1:55

21

Belshazzar : Act 1 “Recall, oh king!” [Chorus]

3:00

22

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “They tell you true” (Nitocris, Belshazzar)

1:36

23

Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Oh dearer than my life” (Nitocris, Belshazzar)

6:43

24

Belshazzar : Act 1 “By slow degrees” [Chorus]

4:38

25

Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 “See from his post” “Why, faithless river” “Euphrates hath his task” “Of things on earth” [Chorus]

6:31