Album lyrics Handel: Belshazzar by George Frideric Handel; The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

Handel: Belshazzar

George Frideric Handel; The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock

1. Belshazzar, HWV 61: Overture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

36. Belshazzar / Act 2: A Sinfony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52. Belshazzar / Act 3: A Martial Symphony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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