Album lyrics Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha by George Frideric Handel

Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar, Jephtha

George Frideric Handel

1. Handel : Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1

2. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris]

3. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris]

4. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel]

5. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel]

6. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus]

7. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias]

8. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias]

9. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus]

10. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]

11. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias]

12. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus]

13. Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "All empires" [Chorus]

14. Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "Oh sacred oracles" [Daniel]

15. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel]

16. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus]

17. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar]

18. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]

19. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris]

20. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus]

21. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]

22. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]

23. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus]

24. Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus]

25. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus]

26. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus]

27. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus]

28. Handel : 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]

29. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus]

30. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus]

31. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar]

32. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris]

33. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris]

34. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus]

35. Handel : Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "Oh glorious prince!" [Chorus]

36. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris]

37. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel]

38. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger]

39. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus]

40. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony

41. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias]

42. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus]

43. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus]

44. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel]

45. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus]

46. Handel : Belshazzar : Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger]

47. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Overture - Menuet

48. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "It must be so - or these vile Ammonites" "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" [Zebul]

49. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus]

50. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha]

51. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" [Storgè]

52. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" [Hamor]

53. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" "Take the heart you fondly gave" [Iphis]

54. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "I go; my soul, inspir'd by thy command" [Hamor] "These labours past, how happy we!" [Iphis]

55. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha]

56. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus]

57. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" [Storgè]

58. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis]

59. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha]

60. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus]

61. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" [Hamor]

62. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus]

63. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Up the dreadful steep ascending" [Hamor]

64. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" "Tune the soft melodious lute" [Iphis]

65. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" "Freedom now once more possessing" [Zebul]

66. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" [Jephtha]

67. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus]

68. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 Symphony

69. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus]

70. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha]

71. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha]

72. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "First perish thou, and perish all the world!... Let other creatures die" [Storgè]

73. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor]

74. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha]

75. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Such news fly swift" "Happy they! this vital breath" [Iphis]

76. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha]

77. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus]

78. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" "A father, offering up" "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Jephtha]

79. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis]

80. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus]

81. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus]

82. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel]

83. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "For ever blessed be thy holy name" [Jephtha]

84. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus]

85. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul]

86. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè]

87. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety" "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" [Hamor]

88. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis]

89. Handel : Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus]

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