Athalia

Album by George Frideric Handel & Joan Sutherland & Academy of Ancient Music & Christopher Hogwood

Athalia is an oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel, first performed in 1733. The work features Baroque choral writing, solo arias, recitative and orchestral accompaniment, and occupies a place in Handel's output as an example of his work in the English oratorio tradition during the 1730s.

About

Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Athalia: Sinfonia
    5:23
  2. 2.
    Athalia: Blooming virgins, spotless train
    4:48
  3. 3.
    Athalia: The rising world Jehovah crown'd
    3:13
  4. 4.
    Athalia: Tyrants would in impious throngs
    3:19
  5. 5.
    Athalia: When he is in his wrath reveal'd
    3:41
  6. 6.
    Athalia: Your sacred songs awhile forbear
    6:41
  7. 7.
    Athalia: What scenes of horror round me rise!
    2:21
  8. 8.
    Athalia: The gods, who chosen blessings shed
    2:29
  9. 9.
    Athalia: Cheer her, O Baal
    3:10
  10. 10.
    Athalia: Gentle airs, melodious strains!
    3:38
  11. 11.
    Athalia: Softest sounds no more can ease me
    4:31
  12. 12.
    Athalia: The traitor if you there descry
    1:57
  13. 13.
    Athalia: Faithful cares in vain extended
    5:52
  14. 14.
    Athalia: Gloomy tyrants, we disdain
    4:48

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Athalia: The mighty pow'r
    5:57
  2. 3.
    Athalia: Through the land so lovely blooming
    8:22
  3. 4.
    Athalia: Ah, canst thou but prove me!
    5:31
  4. 5.
    Athalia: Will God, whose mercies ever flow
    3:18
  5. 6.
    Athalia: My vengeance awakes me
    4:52
  6. 7.
    Athalia: My spirits fail, I faint, I die!
    4:12
  7. 8.
    Athalia: Cease thy anguish, smile once more
    6:35
  8. 9.
    Athalia: The clouded scene begins to clear
    3:59
  9. 10.
    Athalia: What sacred horrors shake my breast!
    1:29
  10. 11.
    Athalia: Unfold, great seer, what heav'n imparts
    0:51
  11. 12.
    Athalia: Let harmony breathe soft around
    4:15
  12. 13.
    Athalia: With firm united hearts
    0:57
  13. 14.
    Athalia: Soothing tyrant, falsely smiling!
    2:21
  14. 15.
    Athalia: Around let acclamations ring
    2:40
  15. 16.
    Athalia: Oppression, no longer I dread thee
    1:52
  16. 17.
    Athalia: Hark! His thunders round me roll
    2:43
  17. 18.
    Athalia: To darkness eternal
    1:05
  18. 19.
    Athalia: Now, Josabeth, thy fears are o'er!
    2:36
  19. 20.
    Athalia: Give glory to his awful name
    2:10

Reviews

Similar Releases