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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

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
• Copyright (c) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
• Recorded At – Henry Wood Hall, London
• Mastered At – Emil Berliner Studios

Credits

• Alto Vocals – Graeme Curry, Jacqueline Connell, Joyce Jarvis, Melanie Marshall , Nigel Short, Penelope Vickers, Robert Jones , Wilfried Swansbourough
• Art Direction – Fred Münzmaier
• 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, Timothy Kraemer
• Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
• 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 – Charlotte Kriesch, Dr. Andreas Holschneider
• Harpsichord – Iain Ledingham, Trevor Pinnock
• Libretto By – Charles Jennens
• Liner Notes – Anthony Hicks
• Liner Notes [French Translation] – Dennis Collins
• Liner Notes [German Translation] – Horst Leuchtmann
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Soloist Cyrus] – Catherine Robbin
• Oboe – Catherine Latham, Lorraine Wood, Paul Goodwin , Sophia McKenna
• Orchestra, Choir – The English Concert & Choir*
• Organ – Bernard Robertson , Trevor Pinnock
• Photography By [Cover] – Gilbert Gemballa
• Producer, Recorded By – 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 [1], Concertmaster – Simon Standage
• Violin [2] – Fiona Huggett, James Ellis , Julia Bishop, Maurice Whitaker, Peter Hanson, Risa Browder, Roy Mowatt, Simon Jones , Walter Reiter

Notes

℗ 1991 Deutsche Grammophon
© 2004 Deutsche Grammophon

Series: "Trio 3CDs"
Recording at Henry Wood Hall, July 1990
DDD Digital Recording

Include 28 page booklet with notes in English and German
Made in the EU

First issued in 1991 as 431 793-2 Archiv Produktion

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 28947 70372 3
• Label Code: LC 0113
• SPARS Code: DDD

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
431 793-2	Anthony Rolfe Johnson • Arleen Auger • Catherine Robbin • James Bowman • David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert & Choir*, Trevor Pinnock, George Frideric Handel*	Anthony Rolfe Johnson • Arleen Auger • Catherine Robbin • James Bowman • David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert & Choir*, Trevor Pinnock, George Frideric Handel* - Belshazzar ‎(3xCD, Album)	Archiv Produktion	431 793-2	Germany	1991
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