Belshazzar
Album by George Frideric Handel; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock
Released 1990
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Belshazzar: OvertureGeorge Frideric Handel4:38
- 2Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Accompagnato ed Arioso "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)George Frideric Handel5:05
- 3Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Nitocris)George Frideric Handel3:58
- 4Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)George Frideric Handel1:14
- 5Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)George Frideric Handel4:55
- 6Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Babylonians)George Frideric Handel2:48
- 7Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Well may they laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus); Accompagnato "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul" (Gobrias)George Frideric Handel1:18
- 8Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)George Frideric Handel3:33
- 9Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Dry thoes unavailing tears" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel2:12
- 10Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Resitativo "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem"; Accompagnato "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel2:35
- 11Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)George Frideric Handel1:14
- 12Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)George Frideric Handel3:16
- 13Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel0:15
- 14Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel3:49
- 15Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel0:41
- 16Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "All empires upon God depend"George Frideric Handel3:15
- 17Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Air "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (Daniel)George Frideric Handel5:13
- 18Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Rejoice, my countrymen"; Air "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Daniel)George Frideric Handel2:59
- 19Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Chorus, "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"George Frideric Handel4:10
- CD 2
- 1Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel5:02
- 2Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)George Frideric Handel0:53
- 3Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)George Frideric Handel7:33
- 4Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)George Frideric Handel1:22
- 5Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Jews)George Frideric Handel3:53
- 6Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel1:22
- 7Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Duet "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel7:15
- 8Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Jews)George Frideric Handel4:24
- 9Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"George Frideric Handel6:26
- 10Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Recitativo "You see, my friends, a path" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel0:45
- 11Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Air "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel4:23
- 12Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (Persians)George Frideric Handel0:35
- 13Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"George Frideric Handel2:58
- 14Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel2:38
- 15Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)George Frideric Handel2:41
- 16Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel0:21
- CD 3
- 1Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, A Sinfony (Allegro Postillions)George Frideric Handel1:42
- 2Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" (Belshazzar); Recitativo "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (Wise Men)George Frideric Handel1:05
- 3Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"George Frideric Handel1:50
- 4Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh king! live for ever!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel1:39
- 5Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)George Frideric Handel1:30
- 6Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel)George Frideric Handel3:13
- 7Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris); Air "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)George Frideric Handel7:00
- 8Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Air "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel4:38
- 9Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Recitativo "You, Gobrias, lead directry to the palace" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel1:01
- 10Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Chorus "Oh glorious prince!"George Frideric Handel4:54
- 11Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris)George Frideric Handel4:27
- 12Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "Fain would I hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)George Frideric Handel0:22
- 13Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)George Frideric Handel2:26
- 14Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)George Frideric Handel1:51
- 15Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Chorus "Bel boweth down" (Jews)George Frideric Handel1:31
- 16Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, Air "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)George Frideric Handel1:37
- 17Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, A Martial SymphonyGeorge Frideric Handel0:39
- 18Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Air "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (Gobrias)George Frideric Handel2:44
- 19Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" (Cyrus); Air "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel2:55
- 20Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Duet "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)George Frideric Handel3:58
- 21Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel)George Frideric Handel0:55
- 22Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "Tell it out among the heathen"George Frideric Handel1:37
- 23Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Yes, I will build thy city" (Cyrus)George Frideric Handel2:22
- 24Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "I will magnify thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)George Frideric Handel5:26
More by George Frideric Handel, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Choir, Trevor Pinnock
Release credits
- tenor vocals [3.2, 3.4, 3.16, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6-7, 2.14-16]
- soprano vocals [3.4, 3.7, 3.11-12, 3.14, 3.20, 3.24, 1.2-4, 2.2-4, 2.6-7]
- mezzo-soprano vocals [2.10-11, 1.7, 1.9-11, 1.13-15, 3.8-9, 3.19-21, 3.23]
- executive
- baritone vocals [1.7-8, 1.11-12, 3.18]
- executive
- balance
- countertenor vocals [1.4-5, 1.17-18, 3.5-6, 3.12-13, 3.21, 3.24]
- solo [22], soprano vocals [22]
- solo [22], tenor vocals [2, 14, 22]
- alto vocals [2, 22], solo [22]
- bass vocals [2, 14]
- performing orchestra
- choir vocals [2.5, 2.8-9, 2.12-13, 2.15, 3.3, 3.10, 3.15, 3.22, 3.24, 1.6, 1.16, 1.19]
- conductor
Issues
B3x CD1990
B3x CD2 May 2004