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Belshazzar (Oratorio); HWV 61
1-1	Ouverture (Maestoso - Allegro)	4:38
Act One
Scene 1
1-2	Accompagnato Ed Arioso: "Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire" (Nitocris)	5:06
1-3	Air; "Thou, God Most High, Ad Thou Alone" (Nitocris)	4:00
1-4	Recitativo: "The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)	1:15
1-5	Air: "Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!" (Daniel)	4:55
Scene 2
1-6	Chorus: "Behold, By Persia's Hero Made" (Babylonians)	2:49
1-7	Recitativo: " Well May They Laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul" (Gobrias)	1:19
1-8	Air: " Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief" (Gobrias)	3:33
1-9	Air: " Dry Those Unvailing Tears" (Gobrias)	2:13
1-10	Recitativo: " Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem" (Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)	2:35
1-11	Recitativo: "Now, Tell Me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)	1:14
1-12	Air: " Bethold The Monsterous Human Beast" (Gobrias)	3:16
1-13	Recitativo: "Can You Then Think It Strange" (Cyrus)	0:16
1-14	Air: "Great God! Who Yet But Darkly Known" (Cyrus)	3:49
1-15	Recitativo: "My Friends, Be Confident" (Cyrus)	0:41
1-16	Chorus: "All Empires Upon God Depend"	3:15
Scene 3
1-17	Air: "Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!" (Daniel)	5:14
1-18	Accompagato: "Rejoice, My Countrymen" (Daniel) Air: "Thus Saith The Lord To Cyrus (Daniel)	2:30
1-19	Chorus: "Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!"	4:11
Scene 4
2-1	Air: "Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!" (Belshazzar)	5:03
2-2	Recitiativo: "For You, My Friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)	0:54
2-3	Air: "The Leafy Honours Of The Field" (Nitocris)	7:34
2-4	Recustom, I May Say, The Law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)	1:23
2-5	Chorus: "Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command" (Jews)	3:54
2-6	Recitativo: "They Tell You The True" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)	1:23
2-7	Duet: "Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)	7:15
2-8	Chorus: "By Slow Degrees The Warth Of God" (Jews)	4:16
Act Two
Scene 1
2-9	Chorus: "See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!"	6:27
2-10	Recitativo: "You See, My Friends, A Path" (Cyrus)	0:16
2-11	Air: "Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near" (Cyrus)	4:24
2-12	Chorus: "To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!" (Persians)	0:35
Scene 2
2-13	Chorus: "Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire"	2:59
2-14	Air: "Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess" (Belshazzar)	2:38
2-15	Accompagnato: "Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)	2:41
2-16	Recitativo: "Call All My Wise Men" (Belshazzar)	0:26
3-1	A Sinfony (Allegro Postillons)	1:43
3-2	Recitativo: "Yes Sages! Welcome Always To You King" (Belshazzar) "Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes" (Wise Men)	1:06
3-3	Chorus: "Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!"	1:50
3-4	Recitativo: "Oh King, Live For Ever!" (Nicotris, Belshazzar)	1:40
3-5	Air: "No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be" (Daniel)	1:31
3-6	Accompagnato: "Yet, To Obey His Dread Command" (Daniel)	3:13
3-7	Recitativo: "Oh Sentence Too Severe!" (Nitocris) Air: Regard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears" (Nitocris)	6:57
Scene 3
3-8	Air: Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!" (Cyrus)	4:37
3-9	Recitativo: "You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace" (Cyrus)	1:02
3-10	Chorus: "Oh Glorious Prince!"	4:41
Act Three
Scene 1
3-11	Air: "Alternate Hopes And Fears" (Nitocris)	4:28
3-12	Recitativo: "Fain Would I Hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)	0:23
3-13	Air: "Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?" (Daniel)	2:26
3-14	Recitativo: "My Hopes Revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)	1:51
3-15	Chorus: "Bel Boweth Down!" (Jews)	1:31
Scene 2
3-16	Air: "I Thank Thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)	1:38
3-17	A Martial Symphony	0:39
Scene 3
3-18	Air: " To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks" (Gobrias)	2:45
3-19	Recitativo: "Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias" (Cyrus) Air: "Destructive War, Thy Limits Know" (Cyrus)	2:55
3-20	Duet: "Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)	3:59
3-21	Recitativo: "Say, Venerable Porphet" (Cyrus, Daniel	0:56
3-22	Soli & Chorus: "Tell It Out Among The Heathen"	1:58
3-23	Accompagnato: "Yes, I Will Build The City" (Cyrus)	2:22
3-24	Soli & Chorus: "I Will Magnify Thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)	5:28

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Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Recorded At – Henry Wood Hall, London

Credits

Alto Vocals – Graeme Curry, Jacqueline Connell, Joyce Jarvis, Melanie Marshall , Nigel Short, Penelope Vickers, Robert Jones , Wilfried Swansbourough
Baritone Vocals [Soloist, Gobrias] – David Wilson-Johnson
Bass Vocals – Christopher Foster, Jeremy Birchall, John Milne , Julian Clarkson, Richard Wistreich, Simon Birchall, Simon Davies , Stephen Alder
Bass Vocals [Soloist, Messenger] – Richard Wistreich
Bassoon – Alberto Grazzi, Philip Turbett
Cello – Christopher Poffley, Helen Verney, Jane Coe, Jane Coe, Timothy Kraemer
Composed By – George Frideric Handel*
Countertenor Vocals [Soloist, Daniel] – James Bowman
Directed By – Trevor Pinnock
Double Bass – Amanda McNamara, Peter Buckoke, Peter McCarthy, Timothy Lyons
Edited By – Uta Drosson
Engineer [Balance] – Hans-Peter Schweigmann
Executive-Producer – Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Harpsichord – Iain Ledingham, Trevor Pinnock
Libretto By – Charles Jennens
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Soloist Cyrus] – Catherine Robbin
Oboe – Catherine Latham, Lorraine Wood, Paul Goodwin , Sophia McKenna
Organ – Bernard Robertson , Trevor Pinnock
Recording Supervisor – Dr. Gerd Ploebsch
Soprano Vocals – Alison Gough, Caroline Ashton, Jacqueline Connell, Julia Gooding, Kate Eckersley, Lucinda Houghton, Rachel Bevan, Rachel Platt, Sally Dunkley, Twig Hall
Soprano Vocals [Soloist, Nitocris] – Arleen Auger
Tenor Vocals – Angus Smith, Harvey Brough, Leigh Nixon, Neil Lunt, Neil MacKenzie, Nicolas Robertson, Tom Phillips , Vernon Kirk
Tenor Vocals [Soloist, Arioch] – Nicolas Robertson
Tenor Vocals [Soloist; Belshazzar] – Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Timpani – Robert Howes
Trumpet – Mark Bennett , Michael Harrison
Viola – Lisa Cochrane, Rupert Bawden, Susan Bicknell, Trevor Jones
Violin [1] – Alison Cracknell, Catherine Weiss, Frances Turner, Graham Cracknell, Miles Golding, Pauline Nobes, Susie Carpenter-Jacobs
Violin [2] – Fiona Huggett, James Ellis , Julia Bishop, Maurice Whitaker, Peter Hanson, Risa Browder, Roy Mowatt, Simon Jones , Walter Reiter
Violin [Leader] – Simon Standage

Notes

Double jewel-case

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 028943179324
Label Code: LC 0113

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
477 037-2	Handel* - Auger* • Rolphe Johnson* • Bowman* • The English Concert & Choir* • Pinnock*	Handel* - Auger* • Rolphe Johnson* • Bowman* • The English Concert & Choir* • Pinnock* - Belshazzar ‎(3xCD, RE + Box)	Archiv Produktion	477 037-2	Europe	2004
431793-2	Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman , David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert & Choir, Pinnock*	Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman , David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert & Choir, Pinnock* - Belshazzar ‎(3xCD, Album)	Archiv Produktion	431793-2	US	1991