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Belshazzar: Overture
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 1. 1. Accompagnato ed Arioso (Nitocris) "Vain fluctuating state of human empire!"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 1. 2a. Aria (Nitocris) "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 1. 2b. Recitative (Nitocris) "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" - Scene 2. 3a. Recitative (Nitocris, Daniel) "O much belov'd"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 2. 3b. Air (Daniel) "Lament not thus, O Queen, in vain!"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 4. Chorus of Babylonians "Behold by Persia's hero made"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 5a. Recitative (Gobrias) "Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe" - 5b. Accompagnato (Gobrias) "Oh memory"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 6. Aria (Gobrias) "Opprest with never ceasing grief"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 7. Aria (Cyrus) "Dry those unavailing tears"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 8a. Recitative (Cyrus) "Be comforted: safe tho' the tyrant seem" - 8b. Accompagnato (Cyrus) "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" - 8bis. Recitative (Cyrus, Gobrias) "Now tell me Gobrias"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 9. Aria (Gobrias) "Behold the monstrous human beast" - 10a. Recitative (Cyrus) "Can you then think it strange, if drown'd in wine"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 10b. Aria (Cyrus) "Great God! who yet but darkly known" - 11a. Recitative (Cyrus) "My friends, be confident, and boldly enter"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 11b. Chorus "All empires upon God depend"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 4. 12. Arioso (Daniel) "O sacred oracles of truth!"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 4. 13a. Accompagnato (Daniel) "Rejoice, my countrymen: the time draws near" - 13b. Recitative (Daniel) "For long ago" - 14. Accompagnato (Daniel) "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus his anointed"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 4. 15. Chorus "Sing, O ye Heav'ns, for the Lord hath done it"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 16a. Aria (Belshazzar) "Let festal joy triumphant reign" - 16b. Recitative (Belshazzar, Nitocris) "For you, my friends, the nobles of my court"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 17. Aria (Nitocris) "The leafy honours of the field"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 18a. Recitative (Belshazzar, Nitocris) "It is the custom; I may say, the law"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 18b. Chorus of Jews "Recall, O king, thy rash command"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 19a. Recitative (Nitocris, Belshazzar) "They tell you true; nor can you be to learn"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 19b. Duet (Nitocris, Belshazzar) "O dearer than my life, forbear"
Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 20. Chorus of Jews "By slow degrees the wrath of God to its meridian height ascends"
Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 1. 21. Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" - 22. Semichorus "Why faithless river dost thou leave" - 23. Semichorus "Euphrates hath his task fulfil'd" - 24. Chorus "Of things on earth, proud man must own"
Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 1. 25a. Recitative (Cyrus) "You, see my friends, a path into the city" - 25b. Aria (Cyrus) "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" - 26. Chorus of Persians "To arms, to arms, no more delay"
