Album lyrics Handel: Oratorios by George Frideric Handel

Handel: Oratorios

George Frideric Handel

2005 98 songs

1. Jephtha, HWV 70: "What mean these doubtful fancies"

2. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people"/"His mighty arm, with sudden blow"

3. Saul, HWV 53: 29. Recitative. This but the smallest Pt. of Harmony 30. Accompagnato. By thee this Universal Frame

4. Saul, HWV 53: 14. Recitative. Go on, illustrious Pair! - 15. Air. While yet thy Tide of Blood runs high

5. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads"/"Scenes of horror, scenes of woe"

6. Jephtha, HWV 70: "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms"/"Sweet as sight

7. Jephtha, HWV 70 / Act 2: "First perish thou, and perish all the world" - Live in Göttingen / 1988

8. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Why is my brother thus afflicted"

9. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply"

10. Jephtha, HWV 70: "If such thy cruel purpose"/"On me let blind mistaken zeal"

11. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Up the dreadful steep ascending"

12. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis"

13. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Horror! confusion!"/"Open thy marble jaws, O tomb"

14. Jephtha, HWV 70: "For ever blessed be Thy holy name"

15. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Waft her, angels, through the skies"

16. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun"

17. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Deeper, and deeper still"

18. Jephtha, HWV 70: "O spare your daughter"

19. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Let me congratulate this happy turn"/"Laud her, all ye virgin train"

20. Jephtha, HWV 70: Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror"

21. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Welcome as the cheerful light"

22. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Happy they! this vital breath"

23. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Such news flies swift"

24. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Ye sacred priests"/"Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods"

25. Saul, HWV 53: 32. Air. O Lord, whose Mercies - 33. Symphony

26. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live"

27. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests"

28. Saul, HWV 53: 28. Air. Fell Rage and black Despair possessed

29. Saul, HWV 53: 6. Recitative. He comes - 7. Air. O Godlike Youth!

30. Saul, HWV 53: 11. Air. What abject Thoughts a Prince can have - 12. Recitative. Yet think, on whom this Honour you bestow

31. Saul, HWV 53: 37. Air. Capricious Man

32. Saul, HWV 53: 26. Air. With Rage I shall burst his Praises to hear!

33. Saul, HWV 53: 13. Air. Birth and Fortune I despise!

34. Saul, HWV 53: 31. Recitative. Rack's with Infernal Pains

35. Jephtha, HWV 70: "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence"/"All that is in Hamor mine"

36. Jephtha, HWV 70: "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens"/"Tune the soft melodious lute"

37. Jephtha, HWV 70: "The smiling dawn of happy days"

38. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Say, my dear mother"

39. Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet

40. Jephtha, HWV 70: "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites"

41. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs"

42. Jephtha, HWV 70: "No more to Ammon's god and king"

43. Jephtha, HWV 70: "But Jephta comes"

44. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Virtue my soul shall still embrace"

45. Jephtha, HWV 70: "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta"/"In gentle murmurs will I mourn"

46. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis"/"Dull delay, in piercing anguish"

47. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls"/"Take the heart you fondly gave"

48. Jephtha, HWV 70: "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command"/"These labours past, how happy we!"

49. Jephtha, HWV 70: "O God, behold our sore distress"

50. Jephtha, HWV 70: "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"

51. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"

52. Jephtha, HWV 70: "In glory high, in might serene"

53. Jephtha, HWV 70: "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"

54. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"

55. Jephtha, HWV 70: Symphony

56. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Theme sublime of endless praise"

57. Jephtha, HWV 70: "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"

58. Applause

59. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Overture

60. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Now there arose a new King" - Chorus: "And the children of Israel"

61. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Then sent He Moses" - Chorus: "They loathed to drink"

62. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Their land brought forth frogs"

63. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "He spake the word"

64. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "He gave them hailstones"

65. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "He sent a thick darkness"

66. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "He smote all the first-born"

67. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "But as for his people"

68. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Egypt was glad when they departed"

69. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "He rebuked the Red Sea"

70. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "And Israel saw that great work"

71. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Moses and the children of Israel

72. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "The Lord is my strength"

73. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "He is my God"

74. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "The Lord is a man of war"

75. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "The depths have covered them"

76. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Thy right hand, o Lord"

77. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "And with the blast of thy nostrils"

78. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "The enemy said: I will pursue"

79. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Thou didst blow with the wind"

80. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Who is like unto thee"

81. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Thou in thy mercy"

82. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: The people shall hear and be afraid"

83. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "Thou shalt bring them"

84. Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: "The Lord shall reign" - Rec.: "For the horse" - Chorus - Rec.: "And Miriam" - Chorus: "Sing ye to the Lord"

85. Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV 258 "Zadok the Priest"

86. The King Shall Rejoice (Coronation Anthem No. 3, HWV 260)

87. Saul, HWV 53: Allegro

88. Saul, HWV 53: Larghetto

89. Saul, HWV 53: Andante larghetto

90. Saul, HWV 53: 1. Chorus. How excellent thy Name, O Lord

91. Saul, HWV 53: 2. Air. An Infant rais'd by thy Command - 3. Trio. Along the Monster Atheist strode

92. Saul, HWV 53: 4. Chorus. The Youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord

93. Saul, HWV 53: 5. Chorus. How excellent thy Name, O Lord

94. Saul, HWV 53: 8. Recitative. Behold, O King, the brave victorious Youth

95. Saul, HWV 53: 9. Air. O King, your Favours with Delight I take - 10. Recitative. O early Piety!

96. Saul, HWV 53: 16. Recitative. Thou, Merab, first in Birth - 17. Air. My Soul rejects the Thought - 18. Air. See, see with what a scornful Air - 19. Air. Ah! Lovely Youth!

97. Saul, HWV 53: 27. Recitative. Imprudent Women!

98. Saul, HWV 53: 34. Recitative. 'Tis all in vain - 35. Air. A Serpent in my Bosom warm'd - 36. Recitative. Has he escaped my Rage?

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