Author: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Title: Belshazzar
Category: Classical
Style: Baroque
Year: 1991 Rating: 3.9
Format: DXD MP2 TTA AC3 MMF AHX AU FLAC MP3
MP3 album RAR size: 1570 mb | FLAC album RAR size: 1479 mb

Tracklist

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

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
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