Handel: BelshazzarGeorge Frideric Handel

  1. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Overture

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    04:38

  2. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    05:06

  3. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    03:59

  4. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:14

  5. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"

    George Frideric Handel, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    04:54

  6. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Behold, by Persia's hero made"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    02:48

  7. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"

    George Frideric Handel, David Wilson-Johnson, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:19

  8. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Opprest with never-ceasing grief"

    George Frideric Handel, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    03:32

  9. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Dry those unavailing tears"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:12

  10. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:35

  11. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Now, tell me, Gobrias"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:14

  12. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Behold the monstrous human beast"

    George Frideric Handel, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    03:15

  13. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Can you then think it strange"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:16

  14. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Great God! who, yet but darkly known"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    03:49

  15. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "My friends, be confident"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:41

  16. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "All empires upon God depend"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    03:15

  17. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"

    George Frideric Handel, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    05:13

  18. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"

    George Frideric Handel, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:59

  19. Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1: "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    04:10

  20. Belshazzar / Act 1: "Let festal joy triumphant reign!"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    05:03

  21. Belshazzar / Act 1: "For you, my friends"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:53

  22. Belshazzar / Act 1: "The leafy honours of the field"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    07:33

  23. Belshazzar / Act 1: "It is the custom, I may say, the law"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:23

  24. Belshazzar / Act 1: "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    03:53

  25. Belshazzar / Act 1: "They tell you true"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:22

  26. Belshazzar / Act 1: "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    07:15

  27. Belshazzar / Act 1: "By slow degrees the wrath of God"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    04:15

  28. Belshazzar / Act 2: "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    06:27

  29. Belshazzar / Act 2: "You see, my friends, a path"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:45

  30. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Amaz'd to find the foe so near"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    04:23

  31. Belshazzar / Act 2: "To arms, to arms! no more delay!"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    00:34

  32. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    02:58

  33. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:38

  34. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    02:41

  35. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Call all my Wise Men"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:25

  36. Belshazzar / Act 2: A Sinfony

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:43

  37. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Nigel Short, Nicolas Robertson, Richard Wistreich, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:05

  38. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    01:49

  39. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh king, live for ever!"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:39

  40. Belshazzar / Act 2: "No! to thyself thy trifles be"

    George Frideric Handel, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:30

  41. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Yet, to obey his dread command"

    George Frideric Handel, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    03:13

  42. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    06:57

  43. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    04:37

  44. Belshazzar / Act 2: "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:02

  45. Belshazzar / Act 2: "Oh glorious prince!"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    04:40

  46. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Alternate hopes and fears"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    04:28

  47. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Fain would I hope"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:23

  48. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"

    George Frideric Handel, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:26

  49. Belshazzar / Act 3: "My hopes revive"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, Nicolas Robertson, Richard Wistreich, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:51

  50. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Bel boweth down!"

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    01:30

  51. Belshazzar / Act 3: "I thank thee, Sesach"

    George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    01:37

  52. Belshazzar / Act 3: A Martial Symphony

    George Frideric Handel, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:39

  53. Belshazzar / Act 3: "To pow'r immortal my first thanks"

    George Frideric Handel, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:44

  54. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:54

  55. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Great victor, at your feet I bow"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    03:58

  56. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Say, venerable prophet"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    00:55

  57. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Tell it out among the heathen"

    George Frideric Handel, Julia Gooding, Nigel Short, Nicolas Robertson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    01:37

  58. Belshazzar / Act 3: "Yes, I will build thy city"

    George Frideric Handel, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

    02:21

  59. Belshazzar / Act 3: "I will magnify thee"

    George Frideric Handel, Arleen Auger, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir

    05:28