Belshazzar

Album by George Frideric Handel & Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Arleen Augér & Catherine Robbin & James Bowman & David Wilson‐Johnson & The English Concert & The English Concert Choir & Trevor Pinnock

Belshazzar is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel, first performed in 1745. The work features Baroque orchestration with prominent choral writing and solo arias, exemplifying Handel's mature English oratorio style and his dramatic setting of biblical narrative within the mid-18th-century London repertory.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Belshazzar: Overture
    4:38
  2. 2.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Accompagnato ed Arioso "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
    5:05
  3. 3.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Nitocris)
    3:58
  4. 4.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
    1:14
  5. 5.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
    4:55
  6. 6.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Babylonians)
    2:48
  7. 7.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Well may they laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus); Accompagnato "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul" (Gobrias)
    1:18
  8. 8.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
    3:33
  9. 9.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Dry thoes unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
    2:12
  10. 10.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Resitativo "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem"; Accompagnato "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
    2:35
  11. 11.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
    1:14
  12. 12.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
    3:16
  13. 13.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
    0:15
  14. 14.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
    3:49
  15. 15.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)
    0:41
  16. 16.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "All empires upon God depend"
    3:15
  17. 17.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Air "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (Daniel)
    5:13
  18. 18.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Rejoice, my countrymen"; Air "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Daniel)
    2:59
  19. 19.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Chorus, "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
    4:10

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
    5:02
  2. 3.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
    0:53
  3. 4.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
    7:33
  4. 5.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
    1:22
  5. 6.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Jews)
    3:53
  6. 7.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
    1:22
  7. 8.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Duet "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
    7:15
  8. 9.
    Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Jews)
    4:24
  9. 10.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
    6:26
  10. 11.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Recitativo "You see, my friends, a path" (Cyrus)
    0:45
  11. 12.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Air "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
    4:23
  12. 13.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (Persians)
    0:35
  13. 14.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
    2:58
  14. 15.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)
    2:38
  15. 16.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
    2:41
  16. 17.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
    0:21

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, A Sinfony (Allegro Postillions)
    1:42
  2. 4.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" (Belshazzar); Recitativo "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (Wise Men)
    1:05
  3. 5.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
    1:50
  4. 6.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh king! live for ever!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
    1:39
  5. 7.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)
    1:30
  6. 8.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel)
    3:13
  7. 9.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris); Air "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)
    7:00
  8. 10.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Air "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)
    4:38
  9. 11.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Recitativo "You, Gobrias, lead directry to the palace" (Cyrus)
    1:01
  10. 12.
    Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Chorus "Oh glorious prince!"
    4:54
  11. 13.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris)
    4:27
  12. 14.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "Fain would I hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)
    0:22
  13. 15.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)
    2:26
  14. 16.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
    1:51
  15. 17.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Chorus "Bel boweth down" (Jews)
    1:31
  16. 18.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, Air "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
    1:37
  17. 19.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, A Martial Symphony
    0:39
  18. 20.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Air "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (Gobrias)
    2:44
  19. 21.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" (Cyrus); Air "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)
    2:55
  20. 22.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Duet "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
    3:58
  21. 23.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel)
    0:55
  22. 24.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "Tell it out among the heathen"
    1:37
  23. 25.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Yes, I will build thy city" (Cyrus)
    2:22
  24. 26.
    Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "I will magnify thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)
    5:26

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