Handel: The Great Oratorios

Album by George Frideric Handel

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: Sonata
    3:18
  2. 2.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 3 Aria: "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno" (Angelo)
    5:33
  3. 3.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 2b Recitativo accompagnato: "Qual'insolita luce" (Lucifero) / No. 1 Aria: "Caddi, è ver (Lucifero)
    4:49
  4. 4.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 4 Recitativo accompagnato: "Ma, che veggio?" (Lucifero, Angelo) / Recitativo: "Chi sei?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
    1:32
  5. 5.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 5 Aria: "D'amor fu consiglio" (Angelo) / Recitativo: "E ben, questio tuo Nume" (Lucifero, Angelo)
    3:59
  6. 6.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 6 Aria: "O voi, dell'Erebo" (Lucifero)
    3:28
  7. 7.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 7 Recitativo accompagnato: "Notte, notte funesta" (Maddalena) / No. 8 Aria: "Ferma l'ali" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Concedi, o Maddalena, quale tregua al martire" (Cleofe, Maddalena)
    6:56
  8. 8.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 9 Aria: "Piangete, sì, piangete" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Ahi, dolce mio Signore" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
    4:31
  9. 9.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 10 Duetto: "Dolci chiodi, amate spine" (Maddalena, Cleofe) / Recitativo: "O Cleofe, o Maddalena" (S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
    5:22
  10. 10.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 11 Aria: "Quando è parto dell'affetto" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Ma dimmi, e sarà vero che risorga Gesù" (Cleofe, S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
    4:43
  11. 11.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 12 Aria: "Naufragando va per l'onde" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Itene pure, o fide amiche donne" (S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
    6:05
  12. 12.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 13 Aria: "Così la tortorella" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Se Maria dunque spera" (Maddalena)
    4:34
  13. 13.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 14 Aria: "Ho un non so che nel cor" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Uscite pure, uscite dall'oscura prigione" (Angelo)
    4:10
  14. 14.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 15 Coro: "Il Nume vincitor" (Angelo, Coro di Angeli)
    2:22

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 16 Introduction / Recitativo: "Di quai nuovi portenti ha la terra oggi ancora il sen fecondo?" (S. Giovanni)
    2:25
  2. 3.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 17 Aria: "Ecco il sol, ch'esce dal mare" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Ma ove Maria dimora" (S. Giovanni)
    5:13
  3. 4.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 18 Aria: "Risorga il mondo" (Angelo)
    2:34
  4. 5.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 19 Recitativo accompagnato: "Di rabbia indarno freme" (Angelo) / "Misero! ho pure udito?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
    1:46
  5. 6.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 20 Aria: "Per celare il nuovo scorno" (Lucifero) / Recitativo: "O come cieco il tuo furor delira!" (Angelo)
    2:28
  6. 7.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 21 Duetto: "Impedirlo io saprò" (Lucifero, Angelo) / Recitativo: "Amica, troppo tardo fu il nostro piè" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
    1:22
  7. 8.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 22 Aria: "Per me già di morire" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Ahi, abborrito nome!" (Lucifero)
    5:34
  8. 9.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 23 Aria: "Vedo il Ciel che più sereno" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Cleofe, siam giunte al luogo" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
    5:36
  9. 10.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 24 Aria: "Se per colpa di donna infelice" (Angelo) / Recitativo: "Mio Gesù, mio Signore, già che risorto sei" (Maddalena)
    3:04
  10. 11.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 25 Aria: "Del ciglio dolente" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Sì, sì, cerchiamo pure l'orme del nostro amor" (Cleofe)
    2:51
  11. 12.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 26 Aria: "Augelletti, ruscelletti" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Dove sì frettolosi, Cleofe, rivolgi i passi?" (Giovanni, Cleofe)
    4:04
  12. 13.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 27 Aria: "Caro Figlio!" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Cleofe, Giovanni, udite" (Maddalena, S. Giovanni, Cleofe)
    5:42
  13. 14.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 28 Aria: "Se impassibile, immortale" (Maddalena): Recitativo: "Sì, sì, col Redentore sorga il mondo redento!" (S. Giovanni, Cleofe, Maddalena)
    4:10
  14. 15.
    La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 29 Coro: "Diasi lode in Cielo, in terra" (Coro)
    1:28

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 1 Sinfonia
    3:27
  2. 4.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 2 Chorus: "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!"
    5:56
  3. 5.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 3 Accompagnato: "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" (Galatea)
    0:57
  4. 6.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!" (Galatea)
    6:20
  5. 7.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 5 Air: "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" (Acis)
    3:23
  6. 8.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. Recitative: "Stay, shepherd, stay!" (Damon)
    0:26
  7. 9.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 6 Air: "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?" (Damon)
    4:28
  8. 10.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. Recitative: "Lo! Here my love" (Acis)
    0:31
  9. 11.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 7 Air: "Love in her eyes sits playing" (Acis)
    6:53
  10. 12.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. Recitative: "Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love" (Galatea)
    0:22
  11. 13.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 8 Air: "As when the dove laments her love" (Galatea)
    6:32
  12. 14.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 9 Duet: "Happy we! What joys I feel!" (Acis, Galatea)
    2:35

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 10 Chorus: "Wretched lovers! Fate has passed this sad decree"
    5:06
  2. 5.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 11 Accompagnato: "I rage, I melt, I burn!" (Polyphemus)
    1:24
  3. 6.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 12 Air: "O ruddier than the cherry" (Polyphemus)
    3:08
  4. 7.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "Whither, fairest, art thou running" (Polyphemus, Galatea)
    1:06
  5. 8.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 13 Air: "Cease to beauty to be suing" (Polyphemus)
    5:39
  6. 9.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 14 Air: "Would you gain the tender creature, softly, gently, kindly treat her" (Damon)
    5:43
  7. 10.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "His hideous love provokes me rage" (Acis)
    0:27
  8. 11.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 15 Air: "Love sounds th'alarm, and fear is a-flying" (Acis)
    5:26
  9. 12.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 16 Air: "Consider, fond shepherd, how fleeting's the pleasure" (Damon)
    6:34
  10. 13.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" (Galatea)
    0:32
  11. 14.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 17 Trio: "The flocks shall leave the mountains" (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus)
    2:31
  12. 15.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 18 Accompagnato: "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!" (Acis)
    1:05
  13. 16.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 19 Chorus: "Mourn, all ye Muses! Weep, all ye swains!"
    3:16
  14. 17.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 20a Solo and Chorus: "Must I my Acis still bemoan, inglorious crush'd beneath that stone?" (Galatea)
    3:56
  15. 18.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "'Tis done: thus I exert pow'r divine; be thou immortal" (Galatea)
    0:24
  16. 19.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 21 Air: "Heart, the seat of soft delight, be thou now a fountain bright!" (Galatea)
    4:09
  17. 20.
    Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 22 Chrous: "Galatea, dry thy tears, Acis now a god appears!"
    3:12

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. Ouverture / Recitative: "'Tis greater far to spare" (Habdonah, Haman)
    7:46
  2. 6.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Pluck root and branch from out the land" (Haman)
    2:10
  3. 7.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus: "Shall we the God of Israel fear?"
    1:55
  4. 8.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 3 Air: "Tune your harps to cheerful strains" (1st Israelite)
    3:56
  5. 9.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 4 Chorus: "Shall we of servitude complain"
    1:26
  6. 10.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "Praise the Lord with cheerful noise" (Israelite woman)
    6:08
  7. 11.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee" (2nd Israelite) / Scene 3. Recitative: "How have our sins provoked the Lord!" (Priest)
    6:12
  8. 12.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 3. No. 8 Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
    2:06
  9. 13.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 3. No. 9 Air: "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide" (Priest) / Scene 4. Recitative: "Why sits that sorrow on thy brow?" (Esther)
    9:35
  10. 14.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. No. 10 Air: "Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger" (Mordecai)
    3:46
  11. 15.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. No. 11 Air: "Tears assist me, pity moving" (Esther)
    3:01
  12. 16.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. No. 12 Chorus: "Save us, O Lord"
    1:32

Disc 6

  1. 6.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. Recitative: "Who dares intrude into our presence" (Ahasuerus)
    1:08
  2. 7.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 13 Duet: "Who calls my parting soul from death?" / "Awake, my soul, my life, my breath!" (Esther, Ahasuerus)
    2:35
  3. 8.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "O beauteous Queen" (Ahasuerus) / Recitative:"If I find favour in thy sight" (Esther)
    7:39
  4. 9.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 15 Air: "How can I stay when love invites" (Ahasuerus)
    3:54
  5. 10.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 16 Chorus: "Virtue, truth and innocence"
    2:34
  6. 11.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 17 Arioso: "Jehovah, crown'd with glory bright" (Priest) / Scene 5. No. 18 Chorus: "He comes, he comes to end our woes" / Scene 6. Recitative: "Now, o Queen, thy suit declare (Ahasuerus)
    6:59
  7. 12.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 19 Arioso: "Turn not, O Queen, thy face away" (Haman)
    2:11
  8. 13.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 20 Air: "Flatt'ring tongue, no more I hear thee!" (Esther) / Scene 6. Recitative: "Guards, seize the traitor" (Ahasuerus)
    5:12
  9. 14.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 21 Air: "How art thou fall'n from thy height!" (Haman)
    4:16
  10. 15.
    Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 22 Chorus: "The Lord our enemy has slain" / Chorus: "For ever blessed be thy holy name" / Solo: "Let Israel soings of joy repeat" (Priest) / Chorus: "For ever be thy holy name" / Duet: "The Lord his people shall restore (Esther, Mordecai) / Chorus: "For ever blessed by thy holy name" / Duet: "Mount Lebanon his firs resigns" / Chorus: "For ever blessed be thy holy name"
    10:46

Disc 7

  1. 7.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. Symphony
    5:23
  2. 8.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Blooming virgins, spotless train" (Josabeth)
    4:48
  3. 9.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus: "The rising world Jehovah crown'd" (Young Virgins)
    3:13
  4. 10.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. No. 3 Solo & Chorus: "Tyrants would in impious throngs" (Josabeth)
    3:19
  5. 11.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "When he is in his wrath reveal'd" (Abner)
    3:41
  6. 12.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Your sacred songs awhile forbear" (Joad)
    6:41
  7. 13.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 7 Accompagnato: "What scenes of horror round me rise!" (Athalia)
    2:21
  8. 14.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 9a Chorus: "The gods, who chosen blessings shed" (Attendants)
    2:29
  9. 15.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 10 Chorus: "Cheer her, O Baal" (Attendants)
    3:10
  10. 16.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 11 Air: "Gentle airs, melodious strains!" (Mathan)
    3:38
  11. 17.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 12 Air: "Softest sounds no more can ease me" (Athalia)
    4:31
  12. 18.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 13 Chorus: "The traitor if you there descry" (Attendants) / Part One, Scene 4. Recitative: "My Josabeth! the grateful time appears" (Joad)
    1:57
  13. 19.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 4. No. 14 Air: "Faithful cares in vain extended" (Josabeth)
    5:52
  14. 20.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 4. No. 15 Air: "Gloomy tyrants, we disdain" (Joad)
    4:49

Disc 8

  1. 8.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Chorus: "The mighty pow'r" (Priests, Levites, Israelites)
    5:57
  2. 9.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "Through the land so lovely blooming" (Josabeth)
    8:22
  3. 10.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 19 Air: "Ah, canst thou but prove me!" (Abner) / Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Confusion to my thoughts!" (Athalia)
    5:31
  4. 11.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Air: "Will God, whose mercies ever flow" (Joas)
    3:18
  5. 12.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21 Air: "My vengeance awakes me" (Athalia)
    4:52
  6. 13.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Duet: "My spirits fail, I faint, I die!" (Josabeth, Joas) / Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Dear Josabeth" (Joad)
    4:11
  7. 14.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Duet: "Cease thy anguish, smile once more" (Joad, Josabeth)
    6:34
  8. 15.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Chorus: "The clouded scene begins to clear" (Trio of Young Virgins)
    3:58
  9. 16.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 25 Accompagnato: "What sacred horrors shake my breast!" (Joad)
    1:28
  10. 17.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 26 Chorus: "Unfold, great seer, what heav'n imparts" (Virgins, Priests, and Levites)
    0:51
  11. 18.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 27a Accompagnato: "Let harmony breathe soft around" (Joad)
    4:15
  12. 19.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 29 Chorus: "With firm united hearts" (Virgins, Priests, Levites) / Part Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "O princess, I approach thee" (Mathan)
    0:56
  13. 20.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 30 Air: "Soothing tyrant, falsely smiling!" (Josabeth) / Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Apostate priest! How canst thou dare" (Joad) / Part Three, Scene 4. Recitative: " Oh bold seducer, art thou there?" (Athalia)
    2:20
  14. 21.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 31 Chorus: "Around let acclamations ring" (Virgins, Priests, Levites)
    2:39
  15. 22.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 32 Air: "Oppression, no longer I dread thee" (Abner)
    1:52
  16. 23.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 33 Arioso: "Hark! His thunders round me roll" (Mathan)
    2:43
  17. 24.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 34 Air: "To darkness eternal" (Athalia)
    1:05
  18. 25.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene the last. Recitative: "Now, Josabeth, thy fears are o'er!" (Josabeth)
    2:35
  19. 26.
    Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene the last. No. 36 Chorus: "Give glory to his awful name" (Virgins, Priests, Levites, Israelites)
    2:10

Disc 9

  1. 9.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Adagio - Andante
    6:12
  2. 10.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "T'was at the royal feast"
    0:49
  3. 11.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Nos. 1 & 2: Air and Chorus: "Happy, happy, happy pair!"
    4:45
  4. 12.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "Timotheus placed on high"
    0:19
  5. 13.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 3 Accompagnato: "The song began from Jove"
    0:49
  6. 14.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 4 Chorus: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"
    2:16
  7. 15.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 5 Air: "With ravish'd ears"
    3:25
  8. 16.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "The praise of Bacchus then"
    0:29
  9. 17.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 6 Air: "Bacchus, ever fair and young"
    4:40
  10. 18.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"
    0:34
  11. 19.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 7 Accompagnato: "He chose a mournful Muse"
    1:20
  12. 20.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 8 Air: "He sung Darius, great and good"
    3:02
  13. 21.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 9 Accompagnato: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
    0:53
  14. 22.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Chorus: "Behold Darius great and good"
    3:06
  15. 23.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 10 Recitative: "The mighty master smiled to see"
    0:28
  16. 24.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 11 Arioso: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
    3:00
  17. 25.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 12 Air: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
    5:19
  18. 26.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 13 Chorus: "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
    3:56
  19. 27.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 14 Air: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain"
    6:05
  20. 28.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Chorus (da capo): "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
    4:03

Disc 10

  1. 10.
    Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": I. Allegro
    3:32
  2. 11.
    Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": II. Largo - Adagio
    1:50
  3. 12.
    Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": III. Allegro - Adagio
    3:25
  4. 13.
    Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": IV. Andante non presto
    4:10
  5. 14.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 15 Accompagnato and Chorus: "Now strike the golden lyre again" / "Break his bonds of sleep asunder" / "Hark, hark! The horrid sound"
    2:20
  6. 15.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 16a Air: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" / Part 2. No. 16b Accompagnato: "Behold, a ghastly band"
    5:05
  7. 16.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 17 Accompagnato: "Give the vengeance due"
    1:46
  8. 17.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 18 Air: "The princes applaud with a furious joy"
    2:07
  9. 18.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 19 Air and Chorus: Air: "Thaïs led the way" / Chorus: "The princes applaud with furious joy"
    5:27
  10. 19.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 20 Accompagnato and Chorus: Accompagnato: "Thus, long ago"
    2:47
  11. 20.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Chorus: "At last divine Cecilia came"
    3:08
  12. 21.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Recitative: "Your voices tune, and raise them high"
    0:31
  13. 22.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Duet: "Let's imitate her notes above!"
    2:28
  14. 23.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Recitative: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
    0:19
  15. 24.
    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
    3:46

Disc 11

  1. 11.
    Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Allegro
    4:05
  2. 12.
    Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Larghetto
    1:52
  3. 13.
    Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Allegro
    2:47
  4. 14.
    Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Andante larghetto
    3:20
  5. 15.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus: "How excellent thy Name, o Lord"
    2:45
  6. 16.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "An Infant rais'd by thy command" / Act 1, Scene 1. No. 3 Trio: "Along the monster atheist strode"
    2:32
  7. 17.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 4 Chorus: "The Youth inspir'd by Thee, o Lord"
    1:50
  8. 18.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 5 Chorus: "How excellent thy Name, o Lord"
    2:20
  9. 19.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 6 Recitative: "He comes" (Michal) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "O godlike Youth!" (Michal)
    3:06
  10. 20.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 8 Recitative: "Behold, o king, the brave victorious youth" (Abner, Saul, David)
    0:45
  11. 21.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 9 Air: "O king, your favours with delight I take" (David) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 10 Recitative: "O early piety!" (Jonathan)
    5:15
  12. 22.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 11 Air: "What abject thoughts a prince can have" (Merab) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 12 Recitative: "Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow" (Merab)
    2:27
  13. 23.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 13 Air: "Birth and fortune I despise!" (Jonathan)
    4:05
  14. 24.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 14 Recitative: "Go on, illustrious pair" (High Priest) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 15 Air: "While yet thy tide of blood runs high" (High Priest)
    2:31
  15. 25.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 16 Recitative: "Thou, Merab, first in birth" (Saul, Merab) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 17 Air: "My soul rejects the thought" (Merab) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 18 Air: "See, see with what a scornful air" (Michal) / "Ah! Lovely youth" (Michal)
    3:22
  16. 26.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 20 Sinfonie / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 21 Recitative: "Already see the daughters of the land" (Michal) / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 22 Chorus: "Welcome, welcome mighty king!"
    2:46
  17. 27.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 3. No. 23 Accompagnato: "What do I hear?" (Saul) / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 24 Chorus: "David his ten thousands slew" / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 25 Accompagnato: "To him ten thousands!" (Saul)
    1:09
  18. 28.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 3. No. 26 Air: "With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!" (Saul)
    1:20
  19. 29.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 4. No. 27 Recitative: "Imprudent women!" (Jonathan, Michal)
    0:39
  20. 30.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 4. No. 28 Air: "Fell rage and black despair possessed" (Michal)
    2:34
  21. 31.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 4. No. 29 Recitative: "This but the smallest part of harmony" (High Priest) / Act 1, Scene 4. No. 30 Accompagnato: "By thee this universal frame" (High Priest)
    2:35
  22. 32.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 31 Recitative: "Rack'd with infernal pains" (Abner)
    0:13
  23. 33.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 32 Air: "O Lord, whose mercies numberless" (David) / Act 1, Scene 5. No. 33 Symphony
    5:09
  24. 34.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 34 Recitative: "'Tis all in vain" (Jonathan) / Act 1, Scene 5. No. 35 Air: "A serpent in my bosom warm'd" (Saul) / Act 1, Scene 5. No. 36 Recitative: "Has he escaped my rage?" (Saul)
    2:17
  25. 35.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 37 Air: "Capricious man" (Merab)
    3:37
  26. 36.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 38 Accompagnato: "O filial piety!" (Jonathan)
    1:23
  27. 37.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 39 Air: "No, cruel Father, no!" (Jonathan)
    1:34
  28. 38.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 40 Air: "O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence" (High Priest)
    1:35
  29. 39.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 41 Chorus: "Preserve him for the glory of Thy name"
    2:51
  30. 40.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 1. [Applause]
    0:25

Disc 12

  1. 12.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 1. No. 42 Chorus: "Envy! eldest born of hell!"
    2:49
  2. 13.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 43 Recitative: "Ah! dearest friend" (Jonathan)
    0:33
  3. 14.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 44 Air: But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" (Jonathan)
    2:08
  4. 15.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 45 Recitative: "O strange vicissitude!" (David, Jonathan)
    0:47
  5. 16.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 46 Air: "Such haughty beauties" (David)
    4:17
  6. 17.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 47 Recitative: "My Father comes" (Jonathan) / Act Two, Scene 3. No. 48 Recitative: "Hast thou obey'd my orders" (Saul, Jonathan)
    0:45
  7. 18.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 3. No. 49 Air: "Sin not, o king, against the youth" (Jonathan)
    2:10
  8. 19.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 3. No. 50 Air: "As great Jehovah lives" (Saul)
    1:18
  9. 20.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 3. No. 51 Air: "From cities storm'd, and battles won" (Jonathan)
    2:13
  10. 21.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 4. No. 52 Recitative: "Appear, my friend" (Jonathan, Saul)
    0:31
  11. 22.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 4. No. 53 Air: "Your words, o king" (David) / Act 2, Scene 4. No. 54 Recitative: "Yes, he shall wed my daughter!" (Saul)
    1:25
  12. 23.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 5. No. 55 Recitative: "A father's will" (Michal)
    0:28
  13. 24.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 5. No. 56 Duet: "O fairest of ten thousand fair" (Michal, David) / Act 2, Scene 5. No. 57 Chorus: "Is there a man"
    4:05
  14. 25.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 5. No. 58 Symphony
    4:07
  15. 26.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 6. No. 59 Recitative: "Thy father is as cruel" (David)
    0:33
  16. 27.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 6. No. 60 Duet: "At persecution I can laugh" (David, Michal)
    1:15
  17. 28.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 7. No. 61 Recitative: "Whom dost thou seek?" (Michal, Doeg)
    0:30
  18. 29.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 7. No. 62 Air: "No, no, let the guilty tremble" (Michal)
    1:27
  19. 30.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 8. No. 63 Recitative: "Mean as he was" (Merab)
    0:49
  20. 31.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 8. No. 64 Air: "Author of peace" (Merab)
    3:11
  21. 32.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 9. No. 65 Sinfonia
    1:14
  22. 33.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 9. No. 66 Accompagnato: "The time at length is come" (Saul) / Act 2, Scene 10. No. 67 Recitative: "Where is the son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan)
    1:33
  23. 34.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 10. No. 68 Chorus: "O fatal consequence of rage"
    5:37

Disc 13

  1. 13.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 1. No. 69 Accompagnato: "Wretch that I am, of my own ruin author!" (Saul) / Act 3, Scene 1. No. 70 Accompagnato: "'Tis said, here lives a woman" (Saul) / Act 3, Scene 2. No. 71 Recitative: "With me what would'st thou?" (Witch of Endor, Saul)
    3:45
  2. 14.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 2. No. 72 Air: "Infernal spirits" (Witch of Endor)
    2:13
  3. 15.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 3. No. 73 Accompagnato: "Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace" (Samuel, Saul)
    3:02
  4. 16.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 3. No. 74 Symphony
    0:35
  5. 17.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 4. No. 75 Recitative: "Whence comest thou?" (David, Amalekite) / Act 3, Scene 4. No. 76 Air: "Impious wretch, of race accurst!" (David)
    2:39
  6. 18.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 4. No. 77 Dead March
    3:06
  7. 19.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 78 Chorus: "Mourn, Israel"
    3:25
  8. 20.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 79 Air: "O let it not in Gath be heard" (High Priest)
    2:06
  9. 21.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 80 Air: "From this unhappy day" (Merab)
    2:53
  10. 22.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 81 Air: "Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew" (David)
    2:24
  11. 23.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 82 Chorus: "Eagles were not so swift as they"
    0:21
  12. 24.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 83 Air: "In sweetest harmony" (Michal)
    4:28
  13. 25.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 84 Solo and Chorus: "O fatal day!" (David, Israelites)
    4:40
  14. 26.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 85 Recitative: "Ye men of Judah, weep no more" (High Priest)
    0:27
  15. 27.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 86 Chorus: "Gird on thy sword"
    5:17
  16. 28.
    Saul, HWV 53: Act 3. [Applause]
    0:28

Disc 14

  1. 14.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Overture
    1:56
  2. 15.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". Recitative: "Now there arose a new king" / Part One "Exodus". No. 1 Chorus: "And the children of Israel sighed"
    3:50
  3. 16.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". Recitative: "Then sent He Moses" / Part One "Exodus". No. 2 Chorus: "They loathed to drink of the river"
    2:32
  4. 17.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 3 Air: "Their land brought forth frogs"
    2:15
  5. 18.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 4 Chorus: "He spake the word"
    2:04
  6. 19.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 5 Chorus: "He gave them hailstones for rain"
    2:06
  7. 20.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 6 Chorus: "He sent a thick darkness"
    2:46
  8. 21.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 7 Chorus: "He smote all the first-born of Egypt"
    2:18
  9. 22.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 8 Chorus: "But as for his people"
    4:00
  10. 23.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 9a Chorus: "Egypt was glad when they departed"
    3:03
  11. 24.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 10 Chorus: "He rebuked the Red Sea"
    2:58
  12. 25.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 13 Chorus: "And Israel saw that great work"
    3:57

Disc 15

  1. 15.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 15 Introitus: "Moses and the children of Israel"
    3:20
  2. 16.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 16 Duet: "The Lord is my strength"
    4:20
  3. 17.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 17 Chorus: "He is my God"
    3:07
  4. 18.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 18 Duet: "The Lord is a man of war"
    5:39
  5. 19.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 19 Chorus: "The depths have covered them"
    2:07
  6. 20.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". Chorus: "Thy right hand, o Lord"
    3:34
  7. 21.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 20 Chorus: "And with the blast of thy nostrils"
    2:49
  8. 22.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 21 Air: "The enemy said: I will pursue"
    2:19
  9. 23.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 22 Air: "Thou didst blow with the wind"
    2:09
  10. 24.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 23 Chorus: "Who is like unto thee"
    2:26
  11. 25.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 24 Duet: "Thou in thy mercy"
    4:32
  12. 26.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 25a Chorus: "The people shall hear"
    7:37
  13. 27.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 26 Air: "Thou shalt bring them in"
    3:51
  14. 28.
    Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 27 Chorus: "The Lord shall reign" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". Recitative: "For the horse of Pharaoh" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". Chorus: "The Lord shall reign" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". Recitative: "And Miriam the prophetess" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 28 Chorus and Solo: "Sing ye to the Lord"
    5:14
  15. 29.
    Two Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
    5:49
  16. 30.
    Two Coronation Anthems: The King Shall Rejoice, HWV 260
    10:36

Disc 16

  1. 16.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 1 Sinfony
    3:23
  2. 17.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 2 Accompagnato: "Comfort ye my people"
    3:25
  3. 18.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 3 Air: "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted"
    3:31
  4. 19.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 4 Chorus: "And the glory Of The Lord"
    2:51
  5. 20.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 5 Accompagnato: "Thus saith the Lord"
    1:35
  6. 21.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 6 Air: "But who may abide the day of his coming?"
    4:45
  7. 22.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 7 Chorus: "And He shall purify"
    2:25
  8. 23.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. Recitative: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"
    0:29
  9. 24.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 8 Air and Chorus: "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"
    5:30
  10. 25.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 9 Accompagnato: "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth"
    3:03
  11. 26.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 10 Air: "The people that walked in darkness"
    3:55
  12. 27.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 11 Chorus: "For unto us A Child is born"
    4:04
  13. 28.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 12 Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
    1:10
  14. 29.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. Recitative: "There were shepherds, abiding in the field" / Part One. No. 13 Accompagnato: "And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them" / Recitative: "And the angel said unto them" / Part One. No. 14 Accompagnato: "And suddenly there was with the angel"
    1:34
  15. 30.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 15 Chorus: "Glory to God"
    1:59
  16. 31.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 16 Air: "Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion"
    4:48
  17. 32.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. Recitative: "Then shall the eyes of the blind"
    0:21
  18. 33.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 17 Air: "He shall feed His flock"
    6:09
  19. 34.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 18 Chorus: "His yoke is easy, and His burden is light"
    2:21
  20. 35.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 19 Chorus: "Behold the Lamb of God"
    3:17
  21. 36.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 20 Air: "He was despised"
    13:15

Disc 17

  1. 17.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 21 Chorus: "Surely He hath borne our griefs"
    2:27
  2. 18.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 22 Chorus: "And with His stripes we are healed"
    1:52
  3. 19.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 23 Chorus: "All we like sheep have gone astray"
    3:54
  4. 20.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 24 Accompagnato: "All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn"
    0:46
  5. 21.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 25 Chorus: "He trusted in God"
    2:33
  6. 22.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 26 Accompagnato: "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart"
    1:49
  7. 23.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 27 Arioso: "Behold and see if there be any sorrow"
    1:59
  8. 24.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 28 Accompagnato: "He was cut off out of the land of the living"
    0:14
  9. 25.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 29 Air: "But thou didst not leave His soul in hell"
    2:08
  10. 26.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 30 Chorus: "Lift up your heads, o ye gates"
    3:04
  11. 27.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. Recitative: "Unto which of the angels said He at any time"
    0:12
  12. 28.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 31 Chorus: "Let all the angels of God worship Him"
    1:29
  13. 29.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 32 Air: "Thou art gone up on high"
    3:10
  14. 30.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 33 Chorus: "The Lord gave the word"
    1:05
  15. 31.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 34 Air: "How beautiful are the feet"
    2:37
  16. 32.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 35 Chorus: "Their sound is gone out"
    1:22
  17. 33.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 36 Air: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together?"
    2:56
  18. 34.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 37 Chorus: "Let us break their bonds asunder"
    1:48
  19. 35.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. Recitative: "He that dwelleth in heaven"
    0:10
  20. 36.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 38 Air: "Thou shalt break them"
    2:05
  21. 37.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 39 Chorus: "Hallelujah"
    3:58
  22. 38.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 40 Air: "I know that my Redeemer liveth"
    6:42
  23. 39.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 41 Chorus: "Since by man came death"
    2:20
  24. 40.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 42 Accompagnato: "Behold, I tell you a mystery"
    0:31
  25. 41.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 43 Air: "The trumpet shall sound"
    8:59
  26. 42.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. Recitative: "Then shall be brought to pass"
    0:16
  27. 43.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 44 Duet: "O Death, where is thy sting?"
    1:03
  28. 44.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 45 Chorus: "But thanks be to God"
    2:12
  29. 45.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 46 Air: "If God be for us"
    4:41
  30. 46.
    Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 47 Chorus: "Worthy is the lamb that was slain" / Part Three. No. 48 Chorus: "Amen"
    7:30

Disc 18

  1. 18.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Symfony
    7:46
  2. 19.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" (Samson)
    0:32
  3. 20.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
    1:54
  4. 21.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Ye men of Gaza, hither bring" (Philistine woman)
    3:51
  5. 22.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
    0:29
  6. 23.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" (Philistine man)
    3:07
  7. 24.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 5 Air: "Then free from sorrow" (Philistine woman)
    2:34
  8. 25.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
    0:28
  9. 26.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Why by an angel was my birth foretold" (Samson)
    0:52
  10. 27.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "Torments, alas! are not confined" (Samson)
    3:56
  11. 28.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "O change beyond report" (Micah)
    0:56
  12. 29.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "O mirror of our fickle state" (Micah)
    2:44
  13. 30.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself" (Samson, Micah)
    2:36
  14. 31.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 8 Air: "Total eclipse! no sun, no moon, all dark" (Samson)
    3:28
  15. 32.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Accompagnato: "Since light so necessary is to life" (Micah)
    1:12
  16. 33.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Chorus of Israelites: "Oh first created beam!"
    3:34
  17. 34.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" (Samson, Micah)
    1:59
  18. 35.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Brethren and men of Dan" (Manoa, Micah)
    0:33
  19. 36.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 11 Accompagnato: "O miserable change! is this the man" (Manoa)
    0:44
  20. 37.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "O ever failing trust in mortal strength!" (Israelite man)
    0:15
  21. 38.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 12 Air: "God of our fathers" (Israelite man)
    3:00
  22. 39.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 14 Accompagnato: "The good we wish for, often proves our banes" (Manoa)
    1:04
  23. 40.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 15 Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" (Manoa)
    4:35
  24. 41.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" (Samson, Manoa)
    1:35
  25. 42.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 16 Accompagnato: "My griefs for this forbid mine eyes to close" (Samson)
    0:54
  26. 43.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 17 Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" (Samson)
    4:34
  27. 44.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "There lies our hope!" (Micah)
    0:21
  28. 45.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 18 Chorus of Israelites: "Then shall they know"
    2:19
  29. 46.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son" (Manoa, Samson)
    2:56
  30. 47.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 20 Air: "Then long Eternity shall greet your bliss" (Micah)
    5:26
  31. 48.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 21 Chorus of Philistines: "Then round about the starry throne"
    2:09

Disc 19

  1. 19.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Despair not thus!" (Manoa, Samson)
    1:25
  2. 20.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 22 Air: "Just are the ways of God to man" (Manoa)
    3:26
  3. 21.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "My evils hopeless are!" (Samson, Micah)
    0:46
  4. 22.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 23 Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Micah)
    8:38
  5. 23.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "But who is this?" (Micah, Samson, Dalila)
    3:15
  6. 24.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 25 Air: "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" (Dalila)
    7:06
  7. 25.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Alas! th'event was worse than I foresaw" (Dalila) / Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila)
    0:54
  8. 26.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 26 Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way" (Samson)
    3:36
  9. 27.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila)
    0:30
  10. 28.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 27 Duet: "My (Her) faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Dalila, Virgin) / Act Two, Scene 2. No. 28 Chorus of Virgins: "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove"
    6:14
  11. 29.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 29 Air & Chorus: "To fleeting pleasures make your court" (Dalila)
    4:53
  12. 30.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!" (Samson, Dalila)
    1:27
  13. 31.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 30 Duet: "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" (Dalila, Samson)
    1:57
  14. 32.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 31 Air: "It is not virtue, valour, wit" (Micah)
    4:12
  15. 33.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Favour'd of heav'n" (Samson)
    0:22
  16. 34.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 32 Chorus of Israelites: "To man God's universal law"
    2:31
  17. 35.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "No words of peace" (Micah, Harapha, Samson)
    1:38
  18. 36.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 33 Air: "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" (Harapha)
    5:40
  19. 37.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Put on your arms" (Samson)
    0:10
  20. 38.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 34 Air: "My strength is from the living God" (Samson)
    2:53
  21. 39.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "With thee! a man condemn'd" (Harapha, Samson)
    0:41
  22. 40.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 35 Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go" (Samson, Harapha)
    2:16
  23. 41.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Here lie the proof" (Micah)
    0:46
  24. 42.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 36 Chorus of Israelites: "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!"
    3:14
  25. 43.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Dagon, arise!" (Harapha)
    0:13
  26. 44.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 37a Air: "To song and dance we give the day" (Philistine man)
    4:04
  27. 45.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 37b Chorus of Philistines: "To song and dance we give the day" (Chorus)
    1:57
  28. 46.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 38 Chorus of Israelites and Philistines: "Fix'd in his everlasting seat"
    3:03

Disc 20

  1. 20.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "More trouble is behind: for Harapha" (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
    1:23
  2. 21.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 39 Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath" (Harapha)
    3:01
  3. 22.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson" (Micah, Samson)
    0:50
  4. 23.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 40 Chorus of Israelites: "With thunder arm'd great God, arise!"
    2:55
  5. 24.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Be of good courage" (Samson, Micah, Harapha)
    2:23
  6. 25.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 42 Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (Samson)
    3:54
  7. 26.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 43 Accompagnato: "With might endued above the sons of men" (Micah)
    0:25
  8. 27.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 44 Air: "The Holy One of Israel by thy guide" (Micah)
    2:22
  9. 28.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Old Manoa" (Micah, Manoa)
    0:26
  10. 29.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 46 Air & Chorus of Philistines: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (Philistine man)
    4:28
  11. 30.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?" (Manoa, Micah)
    0:47
  12. 31.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 48 Air: "How willing my paternal love" (Manoa)
    3:36
  13. 32.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" (Micah, Manoa) / Act Three, Scene 2. No. 49 Symphony / Act Three, Scene 2. No. 50 Chorus of Philistines: "Hear us, our God, oh hear our cry!"
    1:57
  14. 33.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Noise call you this?" (Micah, Manoa)
    0:40
  15. 34.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Where shall I run?" (Messenger, Micah, Manoa)
    3:49
  16. 35.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 51 Air: "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" (Micah) / Act Three, Scene 3. No. 52 Chorus of Israelites: "Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain"
    3:20
  17. 36.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Proceed we hence" (Manoa)
    0:46
  18. 37.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 53 Dead March
    3:06
  19. 38.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "The body comes" (Micah, Manoa)
    1:10
  20. 39.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 54 Soli and Chorus of Israelites: "Glorious hero, may thy grave" (Manoa, Israelite woman)
    5:12
  21. 40.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Come, come!" (Manoa, Micah)
    1:02
  22. 41.
    Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 55 Air: "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row" (Israelite woman) / Act Three, Scene 3. Chorus of Israelites: "Let their celestial concerts all unite"
    6:25

Disc 21

  1. 21.
    Semele, HWV 58: Overture - Gavotte
    9:04
  2. 22.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Accompagnato: "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest)
    1:26
  3. 23.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus: "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests)
    3:08
  4. 24.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Recitative and Arioso: "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)
    0:58
  5. 25.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Accompagnato: "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?" - No. 5 Air "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" (Semele)
    2:44
  6. 26.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele)
    7:05
  7. 27.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)
    0:18
  8. 28.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 7 Air: "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas)
    4:38
  9. 29.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
    0:48
  10. 30.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 8 Quartetto: "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
    2:45
  11. 31.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 9 Chorus: "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests)
    2:00
  12. 32.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 10 Accompagnato: "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus)
    0:39
  13. 33.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)
    0:17
  14. 34.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 11 Chorus: "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)
    0:36
  15. 35.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!" (Athamas)
    0:30
  16. 36.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. No. 12 Air: "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino)
    8:26
  17. 37.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "She weeps!" (Athamas)
    0:25
  18. 38.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. No. 13 Air: "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)
    4:56
  19. 39.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas)
    0:47
  20. 40.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. No. 14 Duetto: "You've undone me / With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas)
    2:29
  21. 41.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!" (Cadmus, Athamas) - No. 15 Accompagnato: "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste" (Cadmus) - Recitative: "O prodigy, to me of dire portent!" (Athamas, Ino) / Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come" (Cadmus)
    2:07
  22. 42.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 4. No. 16 Chorus: "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs)
    1:34
  23. 43.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 4. Nos. 17 & 18 Air and Chorus: Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus)
    4:30

Disc 22

  1. 22.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two. Symphony
    1:31
  2. 23.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
    0:46
  3. 24.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 20 Air: "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)
    3:27
  4. 25.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - No. 21 Accompagnato: "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)
    1:55
  5. 26.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 22 Air: "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
    3:23
  6. 27.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 23 Air: "Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)
    3:10
  7. 28.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele)
    0:16
  8. 29.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)
    3:02
  9. 30.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter)
    0:23
  10. 31.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 25 Air: "With fond desiring" (Semele)
    2:54
  11. 32.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 26 Chorus: "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs)
    3:06
  12. 33.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Ah me! / Why sighs my Semele!" (Semele, Jupiter)
    1:23
  13. 34.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 27 Air: "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
    3:44
  14. 35.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 28 Chorus: "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs)
    2:21
  15. 36.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele)
    1:18
  16. 37.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 29 Air: "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
    4:53
  17. 38.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)
    0:46
  18. 39.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 30 Air: "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)
    2:14
  19. 40.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 31 Duetto: "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino)
    2:02
  20. 41.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 32 Chorus: "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains)
    2:43

Disc 23

  1. 23.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 33 [Symphony] Larghetto e piano per tutto
    1:22
  2. 24.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 34 Accompagnato: "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris)
    0:31
  3. 25.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 35 Air: "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus)
    3:07
  4. 26.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)
    0:40
  5. 27.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 36 Air: "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)
    2:14
  6. 28.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
    1:23
  7. 29.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 37 Duetto: "Obey my will / All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus)
    1:53
  8. 30.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 38 Air: "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
    2:53
  9. 31.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
    1:14
  10. 32.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Air: "Behold this mirror" (Juno)
    2:40
  11. 33.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)
    0:19
  12. 34.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 39 Air: "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)
    6:39
  13. 35.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
    0:37
  14. 36.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 40 Accompagnato: "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)
    1:28
  15. 37.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 41 Air: "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)
    2:13
  16. 38.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)
    0:32
  17. 39.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 42 Air: Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)
    2:58
  18. 40.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - No. 43 Air: "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele)
    1:42
  19. 41.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Speak, speak what you desire" (Jupiter, Semele)
    0:15
  20. 42.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 44 Accompagnato: "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter)
    0:27
  21. 43.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - No. 45 Accompagnato: "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)
    0:34
  22. 44.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 46 Air: "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter)
    1:11
  23. 45.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 47 Air: "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)
    5:14
  24. 46.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 48 Accompagnato: "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
    3:01
  25. 47.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 6. No. 49 Air: "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno)
    2:22
  26. 48.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 7. No. 50 Accompagnato: "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)
    3:44
  27. 49.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. Recitative: "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)
    0:21
  28. 50.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. No. 51 Chorus: "Oh, terror and astonishment!"
    3:56
  29. 51.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. Recitative: "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
    1:00
  30. 52.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. No. 52 Air: "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas)
    5:03
  31. 53.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. Recitative: "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)
    0:17
  32. 54.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene the last. No. 53 Sinfonia
    1:29
  33. 55.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene the last. No. 54 Accompagnato: "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo)
    0:57
  34. 56.
    Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene the last. No. 55 Chorus: "Happy, happy shall we be"
    2:56

Disc 24

  1. 24.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Overture
    4:32
  2. 25.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Menuetto
    2:03
  3. 26.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Accompagnato: "See with what sad dejection" (Lichas)
    2:02
  4. 27.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" (Lichas)
    5:45
  5. 28.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Accompagnato: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me" (Dejanira)
    0:50
  6. 29.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Air: "The world, when day's career is run" (Dejanira)
    4:31
  7. 30.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best" (Lichas, Dejanira) / Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "My son! dear image of thy absent sire!" (Dejanira, Hyllus, Lichas)
    1:25
  8. 31.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "I feel, I feel the god" (Hyllus)
    1:33
  9. 32.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast" (Hyllus, Dejanira)
    0:58
  10. 33.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "There in myrtle shades reclined" (Dejanira)
    3:21
  11. 34.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend" (Hyllus)
    0:27
  12. 35.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "Where congealed the northern streams" (Hyllus)
    1:53
  13. 36.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 8 Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
    5:18
  14. 37.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Banish your fears!" (Lichas, Dejanira)
    0:31
  15. 38.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. No. 9 Air: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away" (Dejanira)
    3:27
  16. 39.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
    0:55
  17. 40.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. No. 10 Air: "The smiling hours" (Lichas)
    1:21
  18. 41.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. No. 11 Chorus: "Let none despair"
    2:26
  19. 42.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 4. No. 13 March
    1:49
  20. 43.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "Thanks to the powers above" (Hercules) / Act One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Oechalia's fall is added to my titles" (Hercules, Iole)
    1:27
  21. 44.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "My father! Ah! methinks I see" (Iole)
    5:56
  22. 45.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Now farewell, arms!" (Hercules)
    0:26
  23. 46.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. No. 15 Air: "The god of battle" (Hercules)
    2:24
  24. 47.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope" (Iole)
    0:27
  25. 48.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. No. 12 Air: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty" (Iole)
    5:55
  26. 49.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. No. 16 Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
    2:28

Disc 25

  1. 25.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Symphonie
    1:11
  2. 26.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Why was I born a princess" (Iole)
    0:18
  3. 27.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (Iole)
    5:57
  4. 28.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "It must be so" (Dejanira, Iole)
    0:38
  5. 29.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 19 Air: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears" (Dejanira)
    2:48
  6. 30.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (Iole, Dejanira)
    1:10
  7. 31.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Air: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove" (Iole)
    5:52
  8. 32.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (Dejanira, Lichas)
    0:19
  9. 33.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "In vain you strive" (Dejanira, Lichas)
    0:16
  10. 34.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
    5:18
  11. 35.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "She knows my passion" (Hyllus, Iole)
    1:45
  12. 36.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Air: "Banish love from thy breast" (Iole)
    2:17
  13. 37.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Forgive a passion" (Hyllus)
    0:10
  14. 38.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "From celestial seats descending" (Hyllus)
    5:37
  15. 39.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 25 Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
    2:04
  16. 40.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Yes, I congratulate" (Dejanira, Hercules)
    0:45
  17. 41.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 26 Air: "Alcides' name in latest story" (Hercules)
    4:47
  18. 42.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!" (Dejanira)
    0:30
  19. 43.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 27 Air: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (Dejanira)
    4:55
  20. 44.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied" (Hercules, Dejanira)
    1:29
  21. 45.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 28 Air: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" (Dejanira)
    3:50
  22. 46.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (Dejanira, Lichas)
    1:26
  23. 47.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 21 Air: "As stars, that rise and disappear" (Lichas)
    3:54
  24. 48.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "But see, the princess Iole" (Dejanira) / Act Two, Scene 5. Recitative: " Forgive me, princess" (Dejanira, Iole)
    1:16
  25. 49.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 5. No. 30 Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (Iole, Dejanira)
    2:33
  26. 50.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "Father of Hercules" (Dejanira)
    0:18
  27. 51.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 5. No. 31 Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
    3:55

Disc 26

  1. 26.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 32 Symfony
    3:54
  2. 27.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief" (Lichas, Trachinian man)
    1:26
  3. 28.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 33 Air: "O scene of unexampled woe" (Lichas)
    3:07
  4. 29.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 34 Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
    4:15
  5. 30.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 2. Accompagnato: "O Jove! what land is this" (Hercules)
    2:24
  6. 31.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!" (Hyllus) - No. 36 Accompagnato: "Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore?" (Hercules, Hyllus)
    2:09
  7. 32.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 37 Air: "Let not fame the tidings spread" (Hyllus)
    4:03
  8. 33.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 38 Accompagnato: "Where shall I fly?" (Dejanira)
    6:14
  9. 34.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!" (Dejanira, Iole)
    1:17
  10. 35.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 39 Air: "My breast with tender pity swells" (Iole)
    6:49
  11. 36.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand" (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira) - Accompagnato: "His mortal part by eating fires consum'd" (Priest of Jupiter)
    1:46
  12. 37.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 41 Air: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky" (Lichas)
    1:50
  13. 38.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 42 Recitative and Accompagnato: "Words are too faint" (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter) - Recitative: " How blest is Hyllus" (Hyllus, Iole)
    1:07
  14. 39.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 43 Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire" (Iole, Hyllus)
    3:26
  15. 40.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Ye sons of freedom" (Priest of Jupiter)
    0:17
  16. 41.
    Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 44 Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
    2:36

Disc 27

  1. 27.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Ouverture
    4:38
  2. 28.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Accompagnato ed Arioso: "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
    5:06
  3. 29.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Thou, God most high" (Nitocris)
    4:00
  4. 30.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris) - Recitative: "O much belov'd of God and man!" (Nitocris, Daniel)
    1:15
  5. 31.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Air: "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
    4:55
  6. 32.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 4 Chorus of Babylonians: "Behold, by Persia's hero made in ample form"
    2:49
  7. 33.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe" (Gobrias, Cyrus) - No. 5 Accompagnato: "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!" (Gobrias)
    1:19
  8. 34.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
    3:33
  9. 35.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "Dry those unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
    2:13
  10. 36.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Be comforted" (Cyrus) - No. 8 Accompagnato: "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
    2:35
  11. 37.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
    1:14
  12. 38.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Air: "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
    3:16
  13. 39.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
    0:16
  14. 40.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Air: "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
    3:49
  15. 41.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "My friends, be confident, and boldly enter upon this high exploit" (Cyrus)
    0:41
  16. 42.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 11 Chorus [of Medes and Persians]: "All empires upon God depend"
    3:15
  17. 43.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 3. No. 12 Arioso: "Oh sacred oracles of truth!" (Daniel)
    5:14
  18. 44.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 3. No. 13 Accompagnato: "Rejoice, my countrymen: the time draws near" (Daniel) - Recitative: "For long ago, whole ages ere this Cyrus yet was born" (Daniel) - No. 14 Accompagnato: "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus, his anointed..." (Daniel)
    3:00
  19. 45.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 3. No. 15 Chorus [of Jews]: "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
    4:11

Disc 28

  1. 28.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 16 Air: "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
    5:03
  2. 29.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "For you, my friends, the noblese of my court" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
    0:53
  3. 30.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 17 Air: "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
    7:33
  4. 31.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
    1:23
  5. 32.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 18 Chorus of Jews: "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"
    3:53
  6. 33.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
    1:22
  7. 34.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 19 Duet: "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
    7:15
  8. 35.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 20 Chorus of Jews: "By slow degrees the wrath of God"
    4:22
  9. 36.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 21 Chorus [of Persians]: "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" - No. 22 Semichorus I: "Why, faithless river, dost thou leave thy charge" - No. 23 Semichorus II: "Euphrates hath his task fulfill'd" - No. 24 Chorus: " Of things on earth, proud man must own"
    6:27
  10. 37.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "You see, my friends, a path into the city lies open" (Cyrus)
    0:45
  11. 38.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 25 Air: "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
    4:23
  12. 39.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 26 Chorus of Persians: "To arms, to arms! No more delay!"
    0:34
  13. 40.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 27 Chorus of Babylonians: "Ye tutelar gods of our empire, look down"
    2:58
  14. 41.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 28 Air: "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)
    2:38
  15. 42.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 29 Accompagnato: "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar) - Chorus [of Babylonians]: "Help, help the king! ... Oh dire portentous sight!" (Chorus, Belshazzar)
    2:41
  16. 43.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
    0:25

Disc 29

  1. 29.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 30 Symphonie
    1:43
  2. 30.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" (Belshazzar) - No. 31 Trio: "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (Wise men)
    1:05
  3. 31.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 32 Chorus [of Babylonians]: "Oh misery! oh terror! Hopeless grief!"
    1:49
  4. 32.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh king, live for ever!" (Nitocris) - Recitative: "Art thou that Daniel of the Jewish captives?" (Belshazzar)
    1:39
  5. 33.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 33 Air: "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)
    1:30
  6. 34.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 34 Accompagnato: "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel) - No. 35 Accompagnato: "The most high God" (Daniel) - No. 36 Accompagnato: " Thou, o king, hast lifted up thyself against the Lord" (Daniel)
    3:13
  7. 35.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh sentence too severe! and yet too sure!" (Nitocris) - No. 37 Air: "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)
    6:57
  8. 36.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 38 Air: "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)
    4:37
  9. 37.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" (Cyrus)
    1:02
  10. 38.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 39 Chorus [of Persians]: "Oh glorious prince!"
    4:52
  11. 39.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 40 Air: "Alternate hopes and fears distract my mind" (Nitocris)
    4:28
  12. 40.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Fain would I hope - is there not room for hope?" (Nitocris, Daniel)
    0:23
  13. 41.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 41 Air: "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)
    2:26
  14. 42.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "My hopes revive - Here Arioch comes" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
    1:51
  15. 43.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 42 Chorus of Jews: "Bel boweth down!"
    1:30
  16. 44.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 43 Air: "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
    1:37
  17. 45.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 44 A Martial Symphony during which a Battle is suppos'd, in which Belshazzar and his attendants are slain
    0:39
  18. 46.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 45 Air: "To pow'r immortal my first thanks are due" (Gobrias)
    2:44
  19. 47.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Be it thy care, good Gobrias to find out the queen" (Cyrus) - No. 46 Air: "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)
    2:54
  20. 48.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 47 Duet: "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
    3:58
  21. 49.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Say, venerable prophet, is there aught in Cyrus' pow'r" (Cyrus, Daniel)
    0:55
  22. 50.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 48 [Soli and] Chorus: "Tell it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King"
    1:37
  23. 51.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 49 Accompagnato: "Yes, I will build thy city, God of Israel" (Cyrus)
    2:21
  24. 52.
    Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 50 Soli and Chorus: "I will magnify thee, oh God my king!"
    5:28

Disc 30

  1. 30.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Ouverture (without tempo indication - Allegro - Lentement - Allegro)
    7:55
  2. 31.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 1 Chorus: "Mourn, ye afflicted children"
    5:37
  3. 32.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Well, may our sorrows, brethren, flow" (Israelitish man, Israelitish woman)
    1:23
  4. 33.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 2 Duet: "From this dread scene, these adverse pow'rs" (Israelitish woman and man)
    2:54
  5. 34.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 3 Chorus: "For Sion lamentation make"
    3:35
  6. 35.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Not vain is all the storm of grief" (Israelitish man)
    1:10
  7. 36.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Pious orgies, pious airs" (Israelitish man)
    3:47
  8. 37.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 5 Chorus: "Oh Father, whose Almighty pow'r"
    2:27
  9. 38.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 6 Recitative: "I feel, I feel the Deity within" (Simon)
    1:04
  10. 39.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 7 Air: "Arm, arm, ye brave!" (Simon)
    3:06
  11. 40.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Chorus: "We come, we come, in bright array"
    1:06
  12. 41.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "'Tis well, my friends" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    0:50
  13. 42.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 8 Air: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    2:15
  14. 43.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "To Heav'n's Almighty king we kneel" (Israelitish woman)
    0:31
  15. 44.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 9 Air: "Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure" (Israelitish woman)
    2:41
  16. 45.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 10 Air: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Israelitish woman)
    3:20
  17. 46.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire" (Israelitish man)
    0:15
  18. 47.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 11 Air: "'Tis liberty, dear liberty alone" (Israelitish man)
    2:57
  19. 48.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 12 Duet: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Israelitish woman and man)
    1:19
  20. 49.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 13 Chorus: "Lead on, lead on! Judah disdains"
    0:50
  21. 50.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 14 Recitative: "So will'd my father, now at rest" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    1:38
  22. 51.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 15 Semichorus: "Disdainful of danger, we'll rush on the foe"
    2:13
  23. 52.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Ambition! if e'er honour was thine aim" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    0:22
  24. 53.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 16 Air: "No unhallow'd desire" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    2:27
  25. 54.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Haste we, my brethren, haste we to the field" (Israelitish man)
    0:12
  26. 55.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 17 Chorus: "Hear us, oh Lord, on thee we call"
    3:43

Disc 31

  1. 31.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 18 Chorus: "Fall'n is the foe; so fall Thy foes, oh Lord!"
    3:25
  2. 32.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Victorious hero! Fame shall tell" (Israelitish man)
    0:46
  3. 33.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 19 Air: "So rapid thy course is" (Israelitish man)
    4:26
  4. 34.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Well, may we hope our freedom to receive" (Israelitish man)
    0:21
  5. 35.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 20 Duet And Chorus: "Sion now her head shall rise" (Israelitish woman and man)
    6:46
  6. 36.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Oh let eternal honours crown his name" (Israelitish woman)
    0:32
  7. 37.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 21 Air: "From mighty kings he took the spoil" (Israelitish woman)
    8:13
  8. 38.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 22 Duet And Chorus: "Hail, hail, Judea, happy land!" (Israelitish woman and man)
    2:16
  9. 39.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Thanks to my brethren, but look up to Heav'n" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    0:49
  10. 40.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 23 Air: "How vain is man, who boasts in fight" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    5:57
  11. 41.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Oh Judas, oh my brethren!" (Messenger)
    0:48
  12. 42.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 24 Solo And Chorus: "Ah! wretched, wretched Israel!" (Israelitish woman)
    6:29
  13. 43.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Be comforted, - nor think these plagues are sent" (Simon)
    0:44
  14. 44.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 25 Air: "The Lord worketh wonders" (Simon)
    3:05
  15. 45.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "My arms! - against this Gorgias will I go" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    0:27
  16. 46.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 26 Solo and Chorus: "Sound an alarm! your silver trumpets sound" (Judas Maccabaeus) ... "We hear, we hear the pleasing, dreadful call" (Chorus)
    4:44
  17. 47.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Enough!" To Heav'n we leave the rest" (Simon)
    0:49
  18. 48.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 27a Air: "With pious hearts, and brave as pious" (Simon)
    2:38
  19. 49.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Ye worshippers of God" (Israelitish man, Israelitish woman)
    1:18
  20. 50.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 27b Air: "Wise men, flatt'ring, may deceive us" (Israelitish woman)
    5:58
  21. 51.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 28 Duet and Chorus: "Oh! never, never bow we down" (Israelitish woman and man)
    6:54

Disc 32

  1. 32.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 29 Air: "Father of Heav'n! from Thy eternal throne" (Israelitish man)
    7:08
  2. 33.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 30 Recitative: "See, see yon flames, that from the altar broke" (Israelitish man)
    0:47
  3. 34.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Oh grant it, Heav'n, that our long woes may cease" (Israelitish woman)
    0:32
  4. 35.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 31 Air: "So shall the lute and harp awake" (Israelitish woman)
    4:32
  5. 36.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "From Capharsalama, on eagle wings I fly" (Messenger, Simon)
    1:25
  6. 37.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Chorus Of Youths: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!" - Chorus Of Virgins: "See, the godlike youth advance!": Chorus: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!"
    2:50
  7. 38.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 32 March
    1:46
  8. 39.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 33 Chorus: "Sing unto God, and high affections raise"
    2:54
  9. 40.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Sweet flow the strains, that strike my feasted ear" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    1:17
  10. 41.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 34 Air: "With honour let desert be crown'd" (Judas Maccabaeus)
    3:20
  11. 42.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Peace to my countrymen; peace, and liberty" (Eupolemus)
    0:50
  12. 43.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 35 Chorus: "To our great God be all the honours giv'n"
    2:28
  13. 44.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Again to earth let gratitude descend" (Israelitish woman)
    0:56
  14. 45.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 36 Air, Duet: "Oh lovely peace, with plenty crown'd" (Israelitish woman and man)
    8:10
  15. 46.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 37 Solo and Chorus: "Rejoice, oh Judah! and in songs divine" (Simon)
    1:51
  16. 47.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Chorus: "Hallelujah! Amen"
    1:41

Disc 33

  1. 33.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Overture: [Grave] - Fuga: Allegro moderato - Allegro
    6:41
  2. 34.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus: "Your harps and cymbals sound"
    3:16
  3. 35.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Praise ye the Lord" (Levite)
    5:06
  4. 36.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Chorus: "With pious heart"
    4:24
  5. 37.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Accompagnato: "Almighty Pow'r" (Solomon)
    3:19
  6. 38.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Imperial Salomon" (Zadok) - No. 5 Accompagnato: "See! from the op'ning skies" (Zadok)
    0:39
  7. 39.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "Sacred raptures" (Zadok)
    4:11
  8. 40.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 7 Chorus: "Throughout the land"
    3:32
  9. 41.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Bless'd be the Lord" (Solomon)
    0:31
  10. 42.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 8 Air: "What tho' I trace" (Solomon)
    6:29
  11. 43.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "And see my queen" (Solomon)
    0:46
  12. 44.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Air: "Bless'd the day" (Queen)
    4:20
  13. 45.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Thou fair inhabitant of Nile" (Solomon, Queen)
    0:41
  14. 46.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Duet: "Welcome as the dawn of day" (Solomon, Queen)
    3:16
  15. 47.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Vain are the transient beauties" (Zadok)
    0:41
  16. 48.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 11 Air: "Indulge thy faith" (Zadok)
    3:38
  17. 49.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "My blooming fair" (Solomon)
    0:11
  18. 50.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 12 Air: "Haste to the cedar grove" (Solomon)
    2:47
  19. 51.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "When thou art absent" (Queen)
    0:18
  20. 52.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 13 Air: "With thee th'unshelter'd moor" (Queen)
    2:10
  21. 53.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Search round the world" (Zadok)
    0:21
  22. 54.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 14 Chorus: "May no rash intruder"
    4:21

Disc 34

  1. 34.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 15 Chorus: "From the censer curling rise"
    5:01
  2. 35.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Prais'd be the Lord" (Solomon)
    1:14
  3. 36.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 16 Air: "When the sun o'er yonder hills" (Solomon)
    4:05
  4. 37.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Great prince" (Levite)
    0:21
  5. 38.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Air: "Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king" (Levite)
    3:09
  6. 39.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "My sovereign liege" (Attendant, Solomon) / Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Thou son of David" (1st Harlot)
    1:55
  7. 40.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 18 Trio: "Words are weak" (1st & 2nd Harlots, Solomon)
    5:27
  8. 41.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "What says the other" (Solomon, 2nd Harlot)
    1:22
  9. 42.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 19 Air: "Thy sentence, great king" (2nd Harlot)
    1:48
  10. 43.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Withhold, withhold the executing hand!" (1st Harlot)
    0:13
  11. 44.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 20 Air: "Can I see my infant gor'd" (1st Harlot)
    4:38
  12. 45.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 21 Accompagnato: "Israel, attend" (Solomon)
    1:55
  13. 46.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 22 Duet: "Thrice bless'd be the king" (1st Harlot, Solomon)
    3:39
  14. 47.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Chorus: "From the east unto the west"
    2:33
  15. 48.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "From morn to eve" (Zadok)
    0:23
  16. 49.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "See the tall palm" (Zadok)
    4:52
  17. 50.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "No more shall armed bands" (1st Harlot)
    0:22
  18. 51.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 25 Air: "Beneath the vine" (1st Harlot)
    5:02
  19. 52.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 26 Chorus: "Swell, swell the full chorus"
    2:57

Disc 35

  1. 35.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three. No. 27 Sinfonia
    2:54
  2. 36.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "From Arabia's spicy shores" (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
    1:19
  3. 37.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 28 Air: "Ev'ry sight these eyes behold" (Queen of Sheba)
    4:15
  4. 38.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Sweep, sweep the string" (Solomon)
    0:18
  5. 39.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 29 Solo and Chorus: "Music, spread thy voice around" (Solomon)
    3:48
  6. 40.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 30 Air and Chorus: "Now a diff'rent measure try" (Solomon)
    1:42
  7. 41.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Then at once from rage remove" (Solomon)
    0:44
  8. 42.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 31 Chorus: "Draw the tear from hopeless love"
    3:01
  9. 43.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Next the tortur'd soul release" (Solomon)
    0:17
  10. 44.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 32 Solo and Chorus: "Thus rolling surges rise" (Solomon)
    3:19
  11. 45.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Thy harmony's divine" (Queen of Sheba)
    1:08
  12. 46.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 33 Air: "Pious king" (Levite)
    2:41
  13. 47.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Thrice happy king" (Zadok)
    0:50
  14. 48.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 34 Air: "Golden columns" (Zadok)
    3:09
  15. 49.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 35 Chorus: "Praise the Lord"
    4:16
  16. 50.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Gold now is common" (Solomon)
    0:29
  17. 51.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 36 Air: "How green our fertile pastures look!" (Solomon)
    1:56
  18. 52.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "May peace in Salem" (Queen of Sheba)
    0:53
  19. 53.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 37 Air: "Will the sun forget to streak" (Queen of Sheba)
    6:20
  20. 54.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Adieu, fair queen" (Solomon)
    0:16
  21. 55.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 38 Duet: "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows" (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
    2:30
  22. 56.
    Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 39 Grand Chorus: "The name of the wicked"
    2:24

Disc 36

  1. 36.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Ouverture
    3:03
  2. 37.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Trio
    1:48
  3. 38.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Courante
    1:44
  4. 39.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "'Tis Dioclesian's natal day" (Valens)
    0:33
  5. 40.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Go, my faithful soldier, go" (Valens)
    1:50
  6. 41.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus of Heathens: "And draw a blessing down"
    2:06
  7. 42.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Vouchsafe, dread Sir" (Didymus, Valens)
    0:55
  8. 43.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 3 Air: "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" (Valens)
    3:20
  9. 44.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 4 Chorus of Heathens: "For ever thus stand fix'd"
    1:37
  10. 45.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Most cruel edict" (Didymus)
    0:30
  11. 46.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "The raptur'd soul" (Didymus)
    8:18
  12. 47.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "I know thy virtues" (Septimius)
    0:44
  13. 48.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Descend, kind Pity" (Septimius)
    7:13
  14. 49.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Though hard, my friends" (Theodora)
    0:28
  15. 50.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 7 Air: "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu" (Theodora)
    4:18
  16. 51.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Oh bright example" (Irene)
    0:27
  17. 52.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 8 Air: "Bane of virtue" (Irene)
    5:06
  18. 53.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 9 Chorus of Christians: "Come, mighty Father"
    2:35
  19. 54.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. Recitative: "Fly, fly, my brethren" (Messenger, Irene) - Recitative: "Ah! whither should we fly?" (Irene)
    1:01
  20. 55.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. No. 10 Air: "As with rosy steps the morn" (Irene)
    6:48
  21. 56.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. No. 11 Chorus: "All pow'r in heav'n"
    2:15
  22. 57.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Mistaken wretches!" (Septimius)
    0:21
  23. 58.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. No. 12 Air: "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" (Septimius)
    2:43
  24. 59.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Deluded mortal" (Septimius) - No. 13 Accompagnato: "O worse than death indeed" (Theodora)
    1:21
  25. 60.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "Angels, ever bright and fair" (Theodora)
    3:36
  26. 61.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!" (Didymus, Irene)
    1:11
  27. 62.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. No. 15 Air: "Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care" (Didymus)
    5:04
  28. 63.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Oh love! how great thy pow'r" (Irene)
    0:23
  29. 64.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. No. 16 Chorus of Christians: "Go, gen'rous pious youth"
    4:51

Disc 37

  1. 37.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Ye men of Antioch" (Valens)
    0:36
  2. 38.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Chorus of Heathens: "Queen of summer"
    0:50
  3. 39.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "Wide spread his name" (Valens)
    2:22
  4. 40.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Return, Septimius" (Valens)
    0:36
  5. 41.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 19 Chorus of Heathens: "Venus laughing from the skies"
    1:20
  6. 42.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Sinfonia
    1:02
  7. 43.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh thous bright sun!" (Theodora)
    0:39
  8. 44.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21a Air: "With darkness deep" (Theodora)
    3:55
  9. 45.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21b Sinfonia (original version)
    1:22
  10. 46.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (Theodora)
    0:21
  11. 47.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Air: "Oh that I on wings could rise" (Theodora)
    3:13
  12. 48.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Long have I known" (Didymus, Septimius)
    1:21
  13. 49.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Air: "Though the honours, that Flora" (Septimius)
    3:57
  14. 50.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "O save her then" (Didymus, Septimius)
    0:35
  15. 51.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "Deeds of kindness to display" (Didymus)
    6:59
  16. 52.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "The clouds begin to veil" (Irene)
    0:38
  17. 53.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 4. No. 25: "Defend her, Heav'n" (Irene)
    5:00
  18. 54.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "Or lull'd with grief" (Didymus)
    0:33
  19. 55.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 26: "Sweet rose and lily" (Didymus)
    2:32
  20. 56.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "O save me, Heav'n" (Theodora, Didymus)
    1:18
  21. 57.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 27 Air: "The pilgrim's home" (Theodora)
    2:43
  22. 58.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 28 Accompagnato: "Forbid it, Heav'n!" (Didymus) - Recitative: "Or, say, what Right have I" (Didymus) - Recitative: "Ah! what is liberty" (Didymus, Theodora)
    1:54
  23. 59.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 29 Duet: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (Theodora, Didymus)
    4:38
  24. 60.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 6. Recitative: "'Tis night" (Irene)
    0:47
  25. 61.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 6. No. 30 Chorus of Christians: "He saw the lovely youth"
    5:18
  26. 62.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh thou bright sun!" (alternative ending) (Theodora)
    0:39
  27. 63.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. No. 21c Sinfonia (alternative ending)
    1:40
  28. 64.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (Theodora)
    0:21
  29. 65.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. No. 22 Air: "Oh that I on wings could rise" (Theodora)
    3:14

Disc 38

  1. 38.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 31 Air: "Lord, to thee each night and day" (Irene)
    5:11
  2. 39.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "But see, the good, the virtuous" (Irene)
    0:37
  3. 40.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 32 Air: "When sunk in anguish and despair" (Theodora)
    3:54
  4. 41.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 33 Solo and Chorus of Christians: "Blest be the hand" (Theodora): Sc.2
    3:27
  5. 42.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Undaunted in the court" (Messenger, Irene) - No. 34 Accompagnato: "Oh my Irene, Heav'n is kind" (Theodora)
    1:30
  6. 43.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. No. 35 Duet: "Whither, Princess, do you fly?" (Irene, Theodora)
    1:09
  7. 44.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "She's gone disdaining liberty and life" (Irene)
    0:40
  8. 45.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. No. 36 Air: "New scenes of joy come crowding on" (Irene)
    4:34
  9. 46.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Is it a Christian virtue then" (Valens, Didymus) / Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Be that my doom" (Theodora, Septimius)
    1:54
  10. 47.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 37 Air: "From virtue springs each gen'rous deed" (Septimius)
    6:34
  11. 48.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 38 Air: "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" (Valens)
    1:02
  12. 49.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "'Tis kind, my friends" (Didymus, Theodora)
    0:53
  13. 50.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Chorus of Christians: "How strange their ends"
    3:22
  14. 51.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "On me your frowns" (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
    0:31
  15. 52.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 40 Air: "Ye ministers of justice" (Valens)
    1:07
  16. 53.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. Recitative: "And must such beauty suffer" (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
    0:55
  17. 54.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. No. 41 Air and Duet: "Streams of pleasure ever flowing" - "Thither let our hearts aspire" (Didymus, Theodora): Sc.6
    6:04
  18. 55.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. Recitative: "Ere this their doom is past" (Irene)
    0:21
  19. 56.
    Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. No. 42 Chorus of Christians: "O Love divine"
    3:02

Disc 39

  1. 39.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Ouverture - Menuet
    5:13
  2. 40.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 1 Accompagnato: "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites" (Zebul)
    1:23
  3. 41.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 2 Air: "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" (Zebul)
    2:51
  4. 42.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 3 Chorus: "No more to Ammon's god and king"
    2:54
  5. 43.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "But Jephtha comes" (Zebul, Jephtha)
    0:52
  6. 44.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (Jephtha)
    4:06
  7. 45.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" (Storgè) - No. 5 Air: "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" (Storgè)
    4:58
  8. 46.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" (Hamor) - No. 6 Air: "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor)
    3:50
  9. 47.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" (Iphis) - No. 7 Air: "Take the heart you fondly gave" (Iphis)
    4:14
  10. 48.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command" (Hamor) - No. 8 Duet: "These labours past, how happy we!" (Iphis, Hamor)
    7:28
  11. 49.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "What mean these doubtful fancies" (Jephtha) - No. 9 Accompagnato: "If, Lord, sustain'd by Thy almighty pow'r" (Jephtha) - Recitative: "'Tis said. Attend, ye chiefs" (Jephtha)
    1:57
  12. 50.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 10 Chorus: "O God, behold our sore distress"
    4:35
  13. 51.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" (Storgè) - No. 11 Air: "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (Storgè)
    4:57
  14. 52.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Say, my dear mother" (Iphis)
    0:52
  15. 53.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 12 Air: "The smiling dawn of happy days" (Iphis)
    3:32
  16. 54.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" (Zebul, Jephtha)
    0:26
  17. 55.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 13 Chorus: "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
    4:38

Disc 40

  1. 40.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" (Hamor)
    1:14
  2. 41.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 14 Chorus: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
    3:12
  3. 42.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 15 Air: "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor)
    4:14
  4. 43.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" (Iphis) - No. 16 Air: "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis)
    4:42
  5. 44.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people" (Jephtha) - Recitative: "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" (Jephtha) - No. 18 Air: "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" (Jephtha)
    6:28
  6. 45.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 19 Chorus: "In glory high, in might serene"
    2:32
  7. 46.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 20 Symphony - Recitative: "Hail, glorious conqueror" (Iphis)
    1:30
  8. 47.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 21 Solo and Chorus: "Welcome as the cheerful light" (Iphis)
    3:52
  9. 48.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Horror! confusion!" (Jephtha) - No. 22 Air: "Open thy marble jaws, o tomb" (Jephtha)
    4:59
  10. 49.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Why is my brother thus afflicted?" (Zebul, Jephtha)
    0:57
  11. 50.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 23 Accompagnato and Arioso: "First perish thou, and perish all the world!" (Storgè)
    2:19
  12. 51.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "If such thy cruel purpose" (Hamor) - No. 24 Air: "On me let blind mistaken zeal" (Hamor)
    1:48
  13. 52.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 25 Quartet: "O spare your daughter!" (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha)
    3:13
  14. 53.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Such news flies swift" (Iphis) - No. 26 Accompagnato: "For joys so vast" (Iphis)
    1:21
  15. 54.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 27 Air: "Happy they! this vital breath" (Iphis)
    3:32
  16. 55.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 28 Accompagnato: "Deeper, and deeper still" (Jephtha)
    3:27
  17. 56.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 29 Chorus: "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
    8:04

Disc 41

  1. 41.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 30 Arioso: "Hide thou thy hated beams, o sun" (Jephtha) - No. 31 Accompagnato: "A father, off'ring up his only child" (Jephtha)
    3:02
  2. 42.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 32 Air: "Waft her, angels, through the skies" (Jephtha)
    4:30
  3. 43.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 33 Accompagnato: "Ye sacred priests" (Iphis) - No. 34 Air: "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (Iphis)
    6:27
  4. 44.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 35 Chorus of Priests: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
    3:49
  5. 45.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 36 Symphony
    2:44
  6. 46.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" (Angel)
    1:00
  7. 47.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 37 Air: "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live" (Angel)
    3:59
  8. 48.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 38 Arioso: "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Jephtha)
    1:28
  9. 49.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 39 Chorus: "Theme sublime of endless praise"
    3:23
  10. 50.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "Let me congratulate this happy turn" (Zebul) - No. 40 Air: "Laud her, all ye virgin train" (Zebul)
    2:21
  11. 51.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" (Storgè) - No. 41 Air: "Sweet as sight to the blind" (Storgè)
    2:15
  12. 52.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" (Iphis) - No. 43b Quintet: "All that is in Hamor mine" (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul)
    3:37
  13. 53.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 44 Chorus: "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"
    2:59
  14. 54.
    Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. [Applause]
    0:18

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