Album lyrics Händel: ORATORIO HIGHLIGHT (In English, Performed According to the Traditions of the Time) by George Frideric Handel

Händel: ORATORIO HIGHLIGHT (In English, Performed According to the Traditions of the Time)

George Frideric Handel

2008 26 songs

1. Why do the nations - Let us break their bonds as under (from Messiah)

2. He that dwelleth in heaven - Thou shalt break them (from Messiah)

3. Hallelujah (from Messiah)

4. Glory to God (from Joshua)

5. Shall I in Mamre's fertile plain - For all these mercies we will sing (from Joshua)

6. Oh! had I Jubal‘s lyre (from Joshua)

7. The great Jehovah is our awful theme (from Joshua)

8. Your harps and cymbals sound (from Solomon)

9. The arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from Solomon)

10. Music spread thy voice around (from Solomon)

11. Now a diff'rent measure try - Shake the dome - Then at once from rage remove (from Solomon)

12. Draw the tear from hopeless love (from Solomon)

13. Next the tortur'd soul release - Thus rolling surges rise (from Solomon)

14. By slow degrees the wrath of God (from Belshazzar)

15. Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r - Help, help the king! Behold! (from Belshazzar)

16. Ye sages, welcome always - Alas, too hard a task the king imposes - Oh misery! Oh terror, hopeless grief! (from Belshazzar)

17. Tell it out among the heathen (from Belshazzar)

18. Already see, the daughters of the land - Welcome mighty King (from Saul)

19. What do I hear - David his Ten Thousands slew (from Saul)

20. First perish thou and perish all the world - Let other creatures die (from Jephtha)

21. Awake the trumpet’s lofty sound (from Samson)

22. Return, o God of Hosts (from Samson)

23. Sion now her head shall raise - Tune your harps (from Judas Maccabaeus)

24. Sound an alarm - We hear the pleasing dreadful call (from Judas Maccabaeus)

25. Sing unto God (from Judas Maccabaeus)

26. Hallelujah! Amen (from Judas Maccabaeus)

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