Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha

Album by George Frideric Handel & Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien

First released: 1979

1.
Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1
4:31
2.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Vain, fluctuating state” (Nitocris)
5:06
3.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Thou, God most high” (Nitocris)
4:06
4.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “The fate of Babylon” [Nitocris] “Oh much belov’d” [Nitocris, Daniel]
1:19
5.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Lament not thus” (Daniel)
4:49
6.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Behold, by Persia’s hero made” [Chorus]
2:56
7.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Well may they laugh” [Gobrias, Cyrus] “Oh memory!” [Gobrias]
1:29
8.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Oppress’d with never‐ceasing grief” (Gobrias)
3:09
9.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Dry those anavailing tears” (Cyrus)
2:37
10.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Be comforted” [Cyrus] “Methought, as on the bank” [Cyrus] “Now tell me, Gobrias” [Cyrus, Gobrias]
4:07
11.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Behold the monstrous human beast” (Gobrias)
3:16
12.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Can you then think” “Great God! who, yet but darkly known” “My friends, be confident” [Cyrus]
4:50
13.
Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 “All empires” [Chorus]
3:39
14.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Oh sacred oracles” (Daniel)
5:17
15.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Rejoice, my countrymen” “For long ago” “Thus saith the Lord” [Daniel]
3:07
16.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Sing, oh ye heav’ns!” [Chorus]
4:34

2.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Let festal joy” (Belshazzar)
4:54
3.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “For you, my friends” (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
1:02
4.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “The leafy honours” (Nitocris)
8:18
5.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “It is the custom” (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
1:55
6.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “Recall, oh king!” [Chorus]
3:00
7.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “They tell you true” (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
1:36
8.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: “Oh dearer than my life” (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
6:43
9.
Belshazzar : Act 1 “By slow degrees” [Chorus]
4:38
10.
Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 “See from his post” “Why, faithless river” “Euphrates hath his task” “Of things on earth” [Chorus]
6:31
11.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “You see, my friends” “Amaz’d to find the foe so near” [Cyrus]
5:26
12.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “To arms, to arms!” [Chorus]
0:30
13.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “Ye tutelar gods” [Chorus]
2:56
14.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “Let the deep bowl” [Belshazzar] “Where is the God” [Chorus] “Help, help the king!” [Chorus, Belshazzar] “Call all my wise men” [Belshazzar]
5:46
15.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “Ye sages!” [Belshazzar] “Alas! too hard a task” [Chorus]
2:42
16.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “Oh misery!” [Chorus]
1:33

3.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “Oh king” [Nitocris] “Art thou that Daniel” [Belshazzar]
1:44
4.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “No! to thyself” [Daniel] “Yet to obey” [Daniel] “Though, o king” [Daniel] “Oh sentence too severe!” [Nitocris]
4:41
5.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: “Regard, oh son” (Nitocris)
6:24
6.
Belshazzar : Act 2 “Oh God of Truth!” “You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace” [Cyrus]
5:29
7.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: “Oh glorious prince!” (Chorus)
4:46
8.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: ’"Alternate hopes and fears” (Nitocris)
4:32
9.
Belshazzar : Act 3 “Fain would I hope” [Nitocris, Daniel] “Can the black Aethiop change his skin?” [Daniel]
2:20
10.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: “My hopes revive” (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
2:15
11.
Belshazzar : Act 3 “Bel boweth down” [Chorus]
1:35
12.
Belshazzar : Act 3 “I thank thee, Sesach” [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony
2:14
13.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: “To pow’r immortal” (Gobrias)
2:14
14.
Belshazzar : Act 3 “Be it thy care” “Destructive War” [Cyrus]
3:02
15.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: “Great Victor” (Nitocris, Cyrus)
5:16
16.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: “Say, venerable prophet” (Cyrus, Daniel)
0:49
17.
Belshazzar : Act 3 “Tell it out” [Chorus] “Yes, I will build the city” [Cyrus]
3:32
18.
Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: “I will magnify thee” (Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger)
5:34