Anthony Rolfe Johnson & Arleen Auger
Handel - Belshazzar Lyrics
Disc 1
- Overture
- Act 1. Scene 1. Accompagnato ed Arioso. Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!
- Act 1. Scene 1. Air. Thou, God most high, and Thou alone
- Act 1. Scene 1. Recitativo. The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh
- Act 1. Scene 1. Air. Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!
- Act 1. Scene 2. Chorus. Behold, by Persia's hero made
- Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Well may they laugh / Accompagnato. Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!
- Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Opprest with never-ceasing grief
- Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Dry those unavailing tears
- Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem / Accompagnato. Methought, as
- Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Now, tell me, Gobrias
- Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Behold the monstrous human beast
- Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Can you then think it strange
- Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Great God! who, yet but darkly known
- Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. My friends, be confident
- Act 1. Scene 2. Chorus. All empires upon God depend
- Act 1. Scene 3. Air. Oh sacred oracle of Truth!
- Act 1. Scene 3. Accompagnato. Rejoice, my countrymen / Air. Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus
- Act 1. Scene 3. Chorus. Sing, oh ye heav'ns!
Disc 2
- Act 1. Scene 4. Air. Let festal joy triumphant reign!
- Act 1. Scene 4. Recitativo. For you, my friends
- Act 1. Scene 4. Air. The leafy honours of the field
- Act 1. Scene 4. Recitativo. It is the custom, I may say, the law
- Act 1. Scene 4. Chorus. Recall, oh king! thy rash command
- Act 1. Scene 4. Recitativo. They tell you true
- Act 1. Scene 4. Duet. Oh dearer than my life, forebear!
- Act 1. Scene 4. Chorus. By slow degrees the wrath of God
- Act 2. Scene 1. Chorus. See, from his post Euphrates flies!
- Act 2. Scene 1. Recitativo. You see, my friends, a path
- Act 2. Scene 1. Air. Amaz'd to find the foe so near
- Act 2. Scene 1. Chorus. To arms, to arms! no more delay!
- Act 2. Scene 2. Chorus. Ye tutelar gods of our empire
- Act 2. Scene 2. Air. Let the deep bowl thy praise confess
- Act 2. Scene 2. Accompagnato. Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?
- Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Call all my Wise Men
Disc 3
- Act 2. Scene 2. A Sinfony
- Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Ye sages! welcome always to your king / Alas! too hard a task the king
- Act 2. Scene 2. Chorus. Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!
- Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Oh king, live for ever!
- Act 2. Scene 2. Air. No! to thyself thy trifles be
- Act 2. Scene 2. Accompagnato. Yet, to obey his dread command
- Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Oh sentence too severe! / Air. Regard, oh son, my flowing tears
- Act 2. Scene 3. Air. Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!
- Act 2. Scene 3. Recitativo. You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace
- Act 2. Scene 3. Chorus. Oh glorious prince!
- Act 3. Scene 1. Air. Alternate hopes and fears
- Act 3. Scene 1. Recitativo. Fain would I hope
- Act 3. Scene 1. Air. Can the black Aethiop change his skin?
- Act 3. Scene 1. Recitativo. My hopes revive
- Act 3. Scene 1. Chorus. Bel boweth down!
- Act 3. Scene 2. Air. I thank thee, Sesach
- Act 3. Scene 2. A Martial Symphony
- Act 3. Scene 3. Air. To pow'r immortal my first thanks
- Act 3. Scene 3. Recitativo. Be it thy care, good Gobrias / Air. Destructive War, thy limits know
- Act 3. Scene 3. Duet. Great victor, at your feet I bow
- Act 3. Scene 3. Recitativo. Say, venerable prophet
- Act 3. Scene 3. Soli & Chorus. Tell it out among the heathen
- Act 3. Scene 3. Accompagnato. Yes, I will build thy city
- Act 3. Scene 3. Soli & Chorus. I will magnify thee
