Handel: The Great Oratorios

Tracklist

• CD 1: La Resurrezione - Parte prima
• 1
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: Sonata
  3:18
• 2
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 3 Aria: "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno" (Angelo)
  5:33
• 3
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 2b Recitativo accompagnato: "Qual'insolita luce" (Lucifero) / No. 1 Aria: "Caddi, è ver (Lucifero)
  4:49
• 4
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 4 Recitativo accompagnato: "Ma, che veggio?" (Lucifero, Angelo) / Recitativo: "Chi sei?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
  1:32
• 5
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 5 Aria: "D'amor fu consiglio" (Angelo) / Recitativo: "E ben, questio tuo Nume" (Lucifero, Angelo)
  3:59
• 6
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 6 Aria: "O voi, dell'Erebo" (Lucifero)
  3:28
• 7
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 7 Recitativo accompagnato: "Notte, notte funesta" (Maddalena) / No. 8 Aria: "Ferma l'ali" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Concedi, o Maddalena, quale tregua al martire" (Cleofe, Maddalena)
  6:56
• 8
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 9 Aria: "Piangete, sì, piangete" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Ahi, dolce mio Signore" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
  4:31
• 9
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 10 Duetto: "Dolci chiodi, amate spine" (Maddalena, Cleofe) / Recitativo: "O Cleofe, o Maddalena" (S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
  5:22
• 10
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 11 Aria: "Quando è parto dell'affetto" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Ma dimmi, e sarà vero che risorga Gesù" (Cleofe, S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
  4:43
• 11
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 12 Aria: "Naufragando va per l'onde" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Itene pure, o fide amiche donne" (S. Giovanni, Maddalena)
  6:05
• 12
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 13 Aria: "Così la tortorella" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Se Maria dunque spera" (Maddalena)
  4:34
• 13
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 14 Aria: "Ho un non so che nel cor" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Uscite pure, uscite dall'oscura prigione" (Angelo)
  4:10
• 14
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Prima: No. 15 Coro: "Il Nume vincitor" (Angelo, Coro di Angeli)
  2:22
• CD 2: La Resurrezione - Parte seconda
• 1
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 16 Introduction / Recitativo: "Di quai nuovi portenti ha la terra oggi ancora il sen fecondo?" (S. Giovanni)
  2:25
• 2
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 17 Aria: "Ecco il sol, ch'esce dal mare" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Ma ove Maria dimora" (S. Giovanni)
  5:13
• 3
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 18 Aria: "Risorga il mondo" (Angelo)
  2:34
• 4
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 19 Recitativo accompagnato: "Di rabbia indarno freme" (Angelo) / "Misero! ho pure udito?" (Lucifero, Angelo)
  1:46
• 5
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 20 Aria: "Per celare il nuovo scorno" (Lucifero) / Recitativo: "O come cieco il tuo furor delira!" (Angelo)
  2:28
• 6
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 21 Duetto: "Impedirlo io saprò" (Lucifero, Angelo) / Recitativo: "Amica, troppo tardo fu il nostro piè" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
  1:22
• 7
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 22 Aria: "Per me già di morire" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Ahi, abborrito nome!" (Lucifero)
  5:34
• 8
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 23 Aria: "Vedo il Ciel che più sereno" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Cleofe, siam giunte al luogo" (Maddalena, Cleofe)
  5:36
• 9
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 24 Aria: "Se per colpa di donna infelice" (Angelo) / Recitativo: "Mio Gesù, mio Signore, già che risorto sei" (Maddalena)
  3:04
• 10
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 25 Aria: "Del ciglio dolente" (Maddalena) / Recitativo: "Sì, sì, cerchiamo pure l'orme del nostro amor" (Cleofe)
  2:51
• 11
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 26 Aria: "Augelletti, ruscelletti" (Cleofe) / Recitativo: "Dove sì frettolosi, Cleofe, rivolgi i passi?" (Giovanni, Cleofe)
  4:04
• 12
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 27 Aria: "Caro Figlio!" (S. Giovanni) / Recitativo: "Cleofe, Giovanni, udite" (Maddalena, S. Giovanni, Cleofe)
  5:42
• 13
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 28 Aria: "Se impassibile, immortale" (Maddalena): Recitativo: "Sì, sì, col Redentore sorga il mondo redento!" (S. Giovanni, Cleofe, Maddalena)
  4:10
• 14
  La Resurrezione, HWV 47, Parte Seconda: No. 29 Coro: "Diasi lode in Cielo, in terra" (Coro)
  1:28
• CD 3: Acis & Galatea - Act I
• 1
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 1 Sinfonia
  3:27
• 2
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 2 Chorus: "Oh, the pleasure of the plains!"
  5:56
• 3
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 3 Accompagnato: "Ye verdant plains and woody mountains" (Galatea)
  0:57
• 4
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!" (Galatea)
  6:20
• 5
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 5 Air: "Where shall I seek the charming fair?" (Acis)
  3:23
• 6
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. Recitative: "Stay, shepherd, stay!" (Damon)
  0:26
• 7
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 6 Air: "Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?" (Damon)
  4:28
• 8
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. Recitative: "Lo! Here my love" (Acis)
  0:31
• 9
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 7 Air: "Love in her eyes sits playing" (Acis)
  6:53
• 10
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. Recitative: "Oh! Didst thou know the pains of absent love" (Galatea)
  0:22
• 11
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 8 Air: "As when the dove laments her love" (Galatea)
  6:32
• 12
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act One. No. 9 Duet: "Happy we! What joys I feel!" (Acis, Galatea)
  2:35
• CD 4: Acis & Galatea - Act II
• 1
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 10 Chorus: "Wretched lovers! Fate has passed this sad decree"
  5:06
• 2
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 11 Accompagnato: "I rage, I melt, I burn!" (Polyphemus)
  1:24
• 3
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 12 Air: "O ruddier than the cherry" (Polyphemus)
  3:08
• 4
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "Whither, fairest, art thou running" (Polyphemus, Galatea)
  1:06
• 5
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 13 Air: "Cease to beauty to be suing" (Polyphemus)
  5:39
• 6
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 14 Air: "Would you gain the tender creature, softly, gently, kindly treat her" (Damon)
  5:43
• 7
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "His hideous love provokes me rage" (Acis)
  0:27
• 8
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 15 Air: "Love sounds th'alarm, and fear is a-flying" (Acis)
  5:26
• 9
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 16 Air: "Consider, fond shepherd, how fleeting's the pleasure" (Damon)
  6:34
• 10
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth" (Galatea)
  0:32
• 11
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 17 Trio: "The flocks shall leave the mountains" (Acis, Galatea, Polyphemus)
  2:31
• 12
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 18 Accompagnato: "Help, Galatea! Help, ye parent gods!" (Acis)
  1:05
• 13
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 19 Chorus: "Mourn, all ye Muses! Weep, all ye swains!"
  3:16
• 14
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 20a Solo and Chorus: "Must I my Acis still bemoan, inglorious crush'd beneath that stone?" (Galatea)
  3:56
• 15
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. Recitative: "'Tis done: thus I exert pow'r divine; be thou immortal" (Galatea)
  0:24
• 16
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 21 Air: "Heart, the seat of soft delight, be thou now a fountain bright!" (Galatea)
  4:09
• 17
  Acis and Galatea, HWV 49: Act Two. No. 22 Chrous: "Galatea, dry thy tears, Acis now a god appears!"
  3:12
• CD 5: Esther - Scenes 1-4
• 1
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. Ouverture / Recitative: "'Tis greater far to spare" (Habdonah, Haman)
  7:46
• 2
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Pluck root and branch from out the land" (Haman)
  2:10
• 3
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus: "Shall we the God of Israel fear?"
  1:55
• 4
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 3 Air: "Tune your harps to cheerful strains" (1st Israelite)
  3:56
• 5
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 4 Chorus: "Shall we of servitude complain"
  1:26
• 6
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "Praise the Lord with cheerful noise" (Israelite woman)
  6:08
• 7
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee" (2nd Israelite) / Scene 3. Recitative: "How have our sins provoked the Lord!" (Priest)
  6:12
• 8
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 3. No. 8 Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
  2:06
• 9
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 3. No. 9 Air: "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide" (Priest) / Scene 4. Recitative: "Why sits that sorrow on thy brow?" (Esther)
  9:35
• 10
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. No. 10 Air: "Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger" (Mordecai)
  3:46
• 11
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. No. 11 Air: "Tears assist me, pity moving" (Esther)
  3:01
• 12
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 4. No. 12 Chorus: "Save us, O Lord"
  1:32
• CD 6: Esther - Scenes 5 & 6
• 1
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. Recitative: "Who dares intrude into our presence" (Ahasuerus)
  1:08
• 2
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 13 Duet: "Who calls my parting soul from death?" / "Awake, my soul, my life, my breath!" (Esther, Ahasuerus)
  2:35
• 3
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "O beauteous Queen" (Ahasuerus) / Recitative:"If I find favour in thy sight" (Esther)
  7:39
• 4
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 15 Air: "How can I stay when love invites" (Ahasuerus)
  3:54
• 5
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 16 Chorus: "Virtue, truth and innocence"
  2:34
• 6
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 5. No. 17 Arioso: "Jehovah, crown'd with glory bright" (Priest) / Scene 5. No. 18 Chorus: "He comes, he comes to end our woes" / Scene 6. Recitative: "Now, o Queen, thy suit declare (Ahasuerus)
  6:59
• 7
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 19 Arioso: "Turn not, O Queen, thy face away" (Haman)
  2:11
• 8
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 20 Air: "Flatt'ring tongue, no more I hear thee!" (Esther) / Scene 6. Recitative: "Guards, seize the traitor" (Ahasuerus)
  5:12
• 9
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 21 Air: "How art thou fall'n from thy height!" (Haman)
  4:16
• 10
  Esther, HWV 50: Scene 6. No. 22 Chorus: "The Lord our enemy has slain" / Chorus: "For ever blessed be thy holy name" / Solo: "Let Israel soings of joy repeat" (Priest) / Chorus: "For ever be thy holy name" / Duet: "The Lord his people shall restore (Esther, Mordecai) / Chorus: "For ever blessed by thy holy name" / Duet: "Mount Lebanon his firs resigns" / Chorus: "For ever blessed be thy holy name"
  10:46
• CD 7: Athalia - Part I
• 1
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. Symphony
  5:23
• 2
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Blooming virgins, spotless train" (Josabeth)
  4:48
• 3
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus: "The rising world Jehovah crown'd" (Young Virgins)
  3:13
• 4
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. No. 3 Solo & Chorus: "Tyrants would in impious throngs" (Josabeth)
  3:19
• 5
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "When he is in his wrath reveal'd" (Abner)
  3:41
• 6
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Your sacred songs awhile forbear" (Joad)
  6:41
• 7
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 7 Accompagnato: "What scenes of horror round me rise!" (Athalia)
  2:21
• 8
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 9a Chorus: "The gods, who chosen blessings shed" (Attendants)
  2:29
• 9
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 10 Chorus: "Cheer her, O Baal" (Attendants)
  3:10
• 10
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 11 Air: "Gentle airs, melodious strains!" (Mathan)
  3:38
• 11
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 12 Air: "Softest sounds no more can ease me" (Athalia)
  4:31
• 12
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 3. No. 13 Chorus: "The traitor if you there descry" (Attendants) / Part One, Scene 4. Recitative: "My Josabeth! the grateful time appears" (Joad)
  1:57
• 13
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 4. No. 14 Air: "Faithful cares in vain extended" (Josabeth)
  5:52
• 14
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part One, Scene 4. No. 15 Air: "Gloomy tyrants, we disdain" (Joad)
  4:49
• CD 8: Athalia - Part II, Part III
• 1
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Chorus: "The mighty pow'r" (Priests, Levites, Israelites)
  5:57
• 2
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "Through the land so lovely blooming" (Josabeth)
  8:22
• 3
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 19 Air: "Ah, canst thou but prove me!" (Abner) / Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Confusion to my thoughts!" (Athalia)
  5:31
• 4
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Air: "Will God, whose mercies ever flow" (Joas)
  3:18
• 5
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21 Air: "My vengeance awakes me" (Athalia)
  4:52
• 6
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Duet: "My spirits fail, I faint, I die!" (Josabeth, Joas) / Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Dear Josabeth" (Joad)
  4:11
• 7
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Duet: "Cease thy anguish, smile once more" (Joad, Josabeth)
  6:34
• 8
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Chorus: "The clouded scene begins to clear" (Trio of Young Virgins)
  3:58
• 9
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 25 Accompagnato: "What sacred horrors shake my breast!" (Joad)
  1:28
• 10
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 26 Chorus: "Unfold, great seer, what heav'n imparts" (Virgins, Priests, and Levites)
  0:51
• 11
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 27a Accompagnato: "Let harmony breathe soft around" (Joad)
  4:15
• 12
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 29 Chorus: "With firm united hearts" (Virgins, Priests, Levites) / Part Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "O princess, I approach thee" (Mathan)
  0:56
• 13
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 30 Air: "Soothing tyrant, falsely smiling!" (Josabeth) / Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Apostate priest! How canst thou dare" (Joad) / Part Three, Scene 4. Recitative: " Oh bold seducer, art thou there?" (Athalia)
  2:20
• 14
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 31 Chorus: "Around let acclamations ring" (Virgins, Priests, Levites)
  2:39
• 15
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 32 Air: "Oppression, no longer I dread thee" (Abner)
  1:52
• 16
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 33 Arioso: "Hark! His thunders round me roll" (Mathan)
  2:43
• 17
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene 4. No. 34 Air: "To darkness eternal" (Athalia)
  1:05
• 18
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene the last. Recitative: "Now, Josabeth, thy fears are o'er!" (Josabeth)
  2:35
• 19
  Athalia, HWV 52: Part Three, Scene the last. No. 36 Chorus: "Give glory to his awful name" (Virgins, Priests, Levites, Israelites)
  2:10
• CD 9: Alexander's Feast - Part I
• 1
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Adagio - Andante
  6:12
• 2
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "T'was at the royal feast"
  0:49
• 3
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Nos. 1 & 2: Air and Chorus: "Happy, happy, happy pair!"
  4:45
• 4
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "Timotheus placed on high"
  0:19
• 5
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 3 Accompagnato: "The song began from Jove"
  0:49
• 6
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 4 Chorus: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"
  2:16
• 7
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 5 Air: "With ravish'd ears"
  3:25
• 8
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "The praise of Bacchus then"
  0:29
• 9
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 6 Air: "Bacchus, ever fair and young"
  4:40
• 10
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Recitative: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"
  0:34
• 11
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 7 Accompagnato: "He chose a mournful Muse"
  1:20
• 12
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 8 Air: "He sung Darius, great and good"
  3:02
• 13
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 9 Accompagnato: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
  0:53
• 14
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Chorus: "Behold Darius great and good"
  3:06
• 15
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 10 Recitative: "The mighty master smiled to see"
  0:28
• 16
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 11 Arioso: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
  3:00
• 17
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 12 Air: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
  5:19
• 18
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 13 Chorus: "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
  3:56
• 19
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. No. 14 Air: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain"
  6:05
• 20
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 1. Chorus (da capo): "The many rend the skies with loud applause"
  4:03
• CD 10: Alexander's Feast - Concerto grosso in C major, Part II
• 1
  Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": I. Allegro
  3:32
• 2
  Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": II. Largo - Adagio
  1:50
• 3
  Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": III. Allegro - Adagio
  3:25
• 4
  Concerto grosso in C major, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": IV. Andante non presto
  4:10
• 5
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 15 Accompagnato and Chorus: "Now strike the golden lyre again" / "Break his bonds of sleep asunder" / "Hark, hark! The horrid sound"
  2:20
• 6
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 16a Air: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" / Part 2. No. 16b Accompagnato: "Behold, a ghastly band"
  5:05
• 7
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 17 Accompagnato: "Give the vengeance due"
  1:46
• 8
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 18 Air: "The princes applaud with a furious joy"
  2:07
• 9
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 19 Air and Chorus: Air: "Thaïs led the way" / Chorus: "The princes applaud with furious joy"
  5:27
• 10
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. No. 20 Accompagnato and Chorus: Accompagnato: "Thus, long ago"
  2:47
• 11
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Chorus: "At last divine Cecilia came"
  3:08
• 12
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Recitative: "Your voices tune, and raise them high"
  0:31
• 13
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Duet: "Let's imitate her notes above!"
  2:28
• 14
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. Recitative: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
  0:19
• 15
  Alexander's Feast, HWV 75: Part 2. "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
  3:46
• CD 11: Saul - Symfonia, Act I
• 1
  Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Allegro
  4:05
• 2
  Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Larghetto
  1:52
• 3
  Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Allegro
  2:47
• 4
  Saul, HWV 53: Symfonia. Andante larghetto
  3:20
• 5
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus: "How excellent thy Name, o Lord"
  2:45
• 6
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "An Infant rais'd by thy command" / Act 1, Scene 1. No. 3 Trio: "Along the monster atheist strode"
  2:32
• 7
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 4 Chorus: "The Youth inspir'd by Thee, o Lord"
  1:50
• 8
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 1. No. 5 Chorus: "How excellent thy Name, o Lord"
  2:20
• 9
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 6 Recitative: "He comes" (Michal) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "O godlike Youth!" (Michal)
  3:06
• 10
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 8 Recitative: "Behold, o king, the brave victorious youth" (Abner, Saul, David)
  0:45
• 11
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 9 Air: "O king, your favours with delight I take" (David) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 10 Recitative: "O early piety!" (Jonathan)
  5:15
• 12
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 11 Air: "What abject thoughts a prince can have" (Merab) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 12 Recitative: "Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow" (Merab)
  2:27
• 13
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 13 Air: "Birth and fortune I despise!" (Jonathan)
  4:05
• 14
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 14 Recitative: "Go on, illustrious pair" (High Priest) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 15 Air: "While yet thy tide of blood runs high" (High Priest)
  2:31
• 15
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 16 Recitative: "Thou, Merab, first in birth" (Saul, Merab) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 17 Air: "My soul rejects the thought" (Merab) / Act 1, Scene 2. No. 18 Air: "See, see with what a scornful air" (Michal) / "Ah! Lovely youth" (Michal)
  3:22
• 16
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 2. No. 20 Sinfonie / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 21 Recitative: "Already see the daughters of the land" (Michal) / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 22 Chorus: "Welcome, welcome mighty king!"
  2:46
• 17
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 3. No. 23 Accompagnato: "What do I hear?" (Saul) / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 24 Chorus: "David his ten thousands slew" / Act 1, Scene 3. No. 25 Accompagnato: "To him ten thousands!" (Saul)
  1:09
• 18
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 3. No. 26 Air: "With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!" (Saul)
  1:20
• 19
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 4. No. 27 Recitative: "Imprudent women!" (Jonathan, Michal)
  0:39
• 20
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 4. No. 28 Air: "Fell rage and black despair possessed" (Michal)
  2:34
• 21
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 4. No. 29 Recitative: "This but the smallest part of harmony" (High Priest) / Act 1, Scene 4. No. 30 Accompagnato: "By thee this universal frame" (High Priest)
  2:35
• 22
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 31 Recitative: "Rack'd with infernal pains" (Abner)
  0:13
• 23
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 32 Air: "O Lord, whose mercies numberless" (David) / Act 1, Scene 5. No. 33 Symphony
  5:09
• 24
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 34 Recitative: "'Tis all in vain" (Jonathan) / Act 1, Scene 5. No. 35 Air: "A serpent in my bosom warm'd" (Saul) / Act 1, Scene 5. No. 36 Recitative: "Has he escaped my rage?" (Saul)
  2:17
• 25
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 5. No. 37 Air: "Capricious man" (Merab)
  3:37
• 26
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 38 Accompagnato: "O filial piety!" (Jonathan)
  1:23
• 27
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 39 Air: "No, cruel Father, no!" (Jonathan)
  1:34
• 28
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 40 Air: "O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence" (High Priest)
  1:35
• 29
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1, Scene 6. No. 41 Chorus: "Preserve him for the glory of Thy name"
  2:51
• 30
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 1. [Applause]
  0:25
• CD 12: Saul - Act II
• 1
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 1. No. 42 Chorus: "Envy! eldest born of hell!"
  2:49
• 2
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 43 Recitative: "Ah! dearest friend" (Jonathan)
  0:33
• 3
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 44 Air: But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" (Jonathan)
  2:08
• 4
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 45 Recitative: "O strange vicissitude!" (David, Jonathan)
  0:47
• 5
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 46 Air: "Such haughty beauties" (David)
  4:17
• 6
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 2. No. 47 Recitative: "My Father comes" (Jonathan) / Act Two, Scene 3. No. 48 Recitative: "Hast thou obey'd my orders" (Saul, Jonathan)
  0:45
• 7
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 3. No. 49 Air: "Sin not, o king, against the youth" (Jonathan)
  2:10
• 8
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 3. No. 50 Air: "As great Jehovah lives" (Saul)
  1:18
• 9
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 3. No. 51 Air: "From cities storm'd, and battles won" (Jonathan)
  2:13
• 10
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 4. No. 52 Recitative: "Appear, my friend" (Jonathan, Saul)
  0:31
• 11
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 4. No. 53 Air: "Your words, o king" (David) / Act 2, Scene 4. No. 54 Recitative: "Yes, he shall wed my daughter!" (Saul)
  1:25
• 12
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 5. No. 55 Recitative: "A father's will" (Michal)
  0:28
• 13
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 5. No. 56 Duet: "O fairest of ten thousand fair" (Michal, David) / Act 2, Scene 5. No. 57 Chorus: "Is there a man"
  4:05
• 14
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 5. No. 58 Symphony
  4:07
• 15
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 6. No. 59 Recitative: "Thy father is as cruel" (David)
  0:33
• 16
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 6. No. 60 Duet: "At persecution I can laugh" (David, Michal)
  1:15
• 17
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 7. No. 61 Recitative: "Whom dost thou seek?" (Michal, Doeg)
  0:30
• 18
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 7. No. 62 Air: "No, no, let the guilty tremble" (Michal)
  1:27
• 19
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 8. No. 63 Recitative: "Mean as he was" (Merab)
  0:49
• 20
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 8. No. 64 Air: "Author of peace" (Merab)
  3:11
• 21
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 9. No. 65 Sinfonia
  1:14
• 22
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 9. No. 66 Accompagnato: "The time at length is come" (Saul) / Act 2, Scene 10. No. 67 Recitative: "Where is the son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan)
  1:33
• 23
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 2, Scene 10. No. 68 Chorus: "O fatal consequence of rage"
  5:37
• CD 13: Saul - Act III
• 1
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 1. No. 69 Accompagnato: "Wretch that I am, of my own ruin author!" (Saul) / Act 3, Scene 1. No. 70 Accompagnato: "'Tis said, here lives a woman" (Saul) / Act 3, Scene 2. No. 71 Recitative: "With me what would'st thou?" (Witch of Endor, Saul)
  3:45
• 2
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 2. No. 72 Air: "Infernal spirits" (Witch of Endor)
  2:13
• 3
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 3. No. 73 Accompagnato: "Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace" (Samuel, Saul)
  3:02
• 4
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 3. No. 74 Symphony
  0:35
• 5
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 4. No. 75 Recitative: "Whence comest thou?" (David, Amalekite) / Act 3, Scene 4. No. 76 Air: "Impious wretch, of race accurst!" (David)
  2:39
• 6
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 4. No. 77 Dead March
  3:06
• 7
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 78 Chorus: "Mourn, Israel"
  3:25
• 8
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 79 Air: "O let it not in Gath be heard" (High Priest)
  2:06
• 9
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 80 Air: "From this unhappy day" (Merab)
  2:53
• 10
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 81 Air: "Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew" (David)
  2:24
• 11
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 82 Chorus: "Eagles were not so swift as they"
  0:21
• 12
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 83 Air: "In sweetest harmony" (Michal)
  4:28
• 13
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 84 Solo and Chorus: "O fatal day!" (David, Israelites)
  4:40
• 14
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 85 Recitative: "Ye men of Judah, weep no more" (High Priest)
  0:27
• 15
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3, Scene 5. No. 86 Chorus: "Gird on thy sword"
  5:17
• 16
  Saul, HWV 53: Act 3. [Applause]
  0:28
• CD 14: Israel in Egypt - Part I
• 1
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Overture
  1:56
• 2
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". Recitative: "Now there arose a new king" / Part One "Exodus". No. 1 Chorus: "And the children of Israel sighed"
  3:50
• 3
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". Recitative: "Then sent He Moses" / Part One "Exodus". No. 2 Chorus: "They loathed to drink of the river"
  2:32
• 4
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 3 Air: "Their land brought forth frogs"
  2:15
• 5
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 4 Chorus: "He spake the word"
  2:04
• 6
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 5 Chorus: "He gave them hailstones for rain"
  2:06
• 7
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 6 Chorus: "He sent a thick darkness"
  2:46
• 8
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 7 Chorus: "He smote all the first-born of Egypt"
  2:18
• 9
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 8 Chorus: "But as for his people"
  4:00
• 10
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 9a Chorus: "Egypt was glad when they departed"
  3:03
• 11
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 10 Chorus: "He rebuked the Red Sea"
  2:58
• 12
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part One "Exodus". No. 13 Chorus: "And Israel saw that great work"
  3:57
• CD 15: Israel in Egypt - Part II / Coronation Anthems
• 1
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 15 Introitus: "Moses and the children of Israel"
  3:20
• 2
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 16 Duet: "The Lord is my strength"
  4:20
• 3
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 17 Chorus: "He is my God"
  3:07
• 4
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 18 Duet: "The Lord is a man of war"
  5:39
• 5
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 19 Chorus: "The depths have covered them"
  2:07
• 6
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". Chorus: "Thy right hand, o Lord"
  3:34
• 7
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 20 Chorus: "And with the blast of thy nostrils"
  2:49
• 8
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 21 Air: "The enemy said: I will pursue"
  2:19
• 9
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 22 Air: "Thou didst blow with the wind"
  2:09
• 10
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 23 Chorus: "Who is like unto thee"
  2:26
• 11
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 24 Duet: "Thou in thy mercy"
  4:32
• 12
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 25a Chorus: "The people shall hear"
  7:37
• 13
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 26 Air: "Thou shalt bring them in"
  3:51
• 14
  Israel in Egypt, HWV 54: Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 27 Chorus: "The Lord shall reign" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". Recitative: "For the horse of Pharaoh" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". Chorus: "The Lord shall reign" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". Recitative: "And Miriam the prophetess" / Part 2 "Moses' Song". No. 28 Chorus and Solo: "Sing ye to the Lord"
  5:14
• 15
  Two Coronation Anthems: Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
  5:49
• 16
  Two Coronation Anthems: The King Shall Rejoice, HWV 260
  10:36
• CD 16: Messiah - Part I, Part II (beginning)
• 1
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 1 Sinfony
  3:23
• 2
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 2 Accompagnato: "Comfort ye my people"
  3:25
• 3
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 3 Air: "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted"
  3:31
• 4
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 4 Chorus: "And the glory Of The Lord"
  2:51
• 5
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 5 Accompagnato: "Thus saith the Lord"
  1:35
• 6
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 6 Air: "But who may abide the day of his coming?"
  4:45
• 7
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 7 Chorus: "And He shall purify"
  2:25
• 8
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. Recitative: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive"
  0:29
• 9
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 8 Air and Chorus: "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion"
  5:30
• 10
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 9 Accompagnato: "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth"
  3:03
• 11
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 10 Air: "The people that walked in darkness"
  3:55
• 12
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 11 Chorus: "For unto us A Child is born"
  4:04
• 13
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 12 Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
  1:10
• 14
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. Recitative: "There were shepherds, abiding in the field" / Part One. No. 13 Accompagnato: "And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them" / Recitative: "And the angel said unto them" / Part One. No. 14 Accompagnato: "And suddenly there was with the angel"
  1:34
• 15
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 15 Chorus: "Glory to God"
  1:59
• 16
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 16 Air: "Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion"
  4:48
• 17
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. Recitative: "Then shall the eyes of the blind"
  0:21
• 18
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 17 Air: "He shall feed His flock"
  6:09
• 19
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part One. No. 18 Chorus: "His yoke is easy, and His burden is light"
  2:21
• 20
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 19 Chorus: "Behold the Lamb of God"
  3:17
• 21
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 20 Air: "He was despised"
  13:15
• CD 17: Messiah - Part II (conclusion), Part III
• 1
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 21 Chorus: "Surely He hath borne our griefs"
  2:27
• 2
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 22 Chorus: "And with His stripes we are healed"
  1:52
• 3
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 23 Chorus: "All we like sheep have gone astray"
  3:54
• 4
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 24 Accompagnato: "All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn"
  0:46
• 5
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 25 Chorus: "He trusted in God"
  2:33
• 6
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 26 Accompagnato: "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart"
  1:49
• 7
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 27 Arioso: "Behold and see if there be any sorrow"
  1:59
• 8
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 28 Accompagnato: "He was cut off out of the land of the living"
  0:14
• 9
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 29 Air: "But thou didst not leave His soul in hell"
  2:08
• 10
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 30 Chorus: "Lift up your heads, o ye gates"
  3:04
• 11
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. Recitative: "Unto which of the angels said He at any time"
  0:12
• 12
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 31 Chorus: "Let all the angels of God worship Him"
  1:29
• 13
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 32 Air: "Thou art gone up on high"
  3:10
• 14
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 33 Chorus: "The Lord gave the word"
  1:05
• 15
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 34 Air: "How beautiful are the feet"
  2:37
• 16
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 35 Chorus: "Their sound is gone out"
  1:22
• 17
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 36 Air: "Why do the nations so furiously rage together?"
  2:56
• 18
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 37 Chorus: "Let us break their bonds asunder"
  1:48
• 19
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. Recitative: "He that dwelleth in heaven"
  0:10
• 20
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 38 Air: "Thou shalt break them"
  2:05
• 21
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Two. No. 39 Chorus: "Hallelujah"
  3:58
• 22
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 40 Air: "I know that my Redeemer liveth"
  6:42
• 23
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 41 Chorus: "Since by man came death"
  2:20
• 24
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 42 Accompagnato: "Behold, I tell you a mystery"
  0:31
• 25
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 43 Air: "The trumpet shall sound"
  8:59
• 26
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. Recitative: "Then shall be brought to pass"
  0:16
• 27
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 44 Duet: "O Death, where is thy sting?"
  1:03
• 28
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 45 Chorus: "But thanks be to God"
  2:12
• 29
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 46 Air: "If God be for us"
  4:41
• 30
  Messiah, HWV 56: Part Three. No. 47 Chorus: "Worthy is the lamb that was slain" / Part Three. No. 48 Chorus: "Amen"
  7:30
• CD 18: Samson - Act I
• 1
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Symfony
  7:46
• 2
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" (Samson)
  0:32
• 3
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
  1:54
• 4
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Ye men of Gaza, hither bring" (Philistine woman)
  3:51
• 5
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
  0:29
• 6
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Air: "Loud as the thunder's awful voice" (Philistine man)
  3:07
• 7
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 5 Air: "Then free from sorrow" (Philistine woman)
  2:34
• 8
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Chorus of Philistines: "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!"
  0:28
• 9
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Why by an angel was my birth foretold" (Samson)
  0:52
• 10
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "Torments, alas! are not confined" (Samson)
  3:56
• 11
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "O change beyond report" (Micah)
  0:56
• 12
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "O mirror of our fickle state" (Micah)
  2:44
• 13
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Whom have I to complain of but myself" (Samson, Micah)
  2:36
• 14
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 8 Air: "Total eclipse! no sun, no moon, all dark" (Samson)
  3:28
• 15
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Accompagnato: "Since light so necessary is to life" (Micah)
  1:12
• 16
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Chorus of Israelites: "Oh first created beam!"
  3:34
• 17
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ye see, my friends, how woes enclose me round" (Samson, Micah)
  1:59
• 18
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Brethren and men of Dan" (Manoa, Micah)
  0:33
• 19
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 11 Accompagnato: "O miserable change! is this the man" (Manoa)
  0:44
• 20
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "O ever failing trust in mortal strength!" (Israelite man)
  0:15
• 21
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 12 Air: "God of our fathers" (Israelite man)
  3:00
• 22
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 14 Accompagnato: "The good we wish for, often proves our banes" (Manoa)
  1:04
• 23
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 15 Air: "Thy glorious deeds inspir'd my tongue" (Manoa)
  4:35
• 24
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Justly these evils have befall'n thy son" (Samson, Manoa)
  1:35
• 25
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 16 Accompagnato: "My griefs for this forbid mine eyes to close" (Samson)
  0:54
• 26
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 17 Air: "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" (Samson)
  4:34
• 27
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "There lies our hope!" (Micah)
  0:21
• 28
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 18 Chorus of Israelites: "Then shall they know"
  2:19
• 29
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "For thee, my dearest son" (Manoa, Samson)
  2:56
• 30
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 20 Air: "Then long Eternity shall greet your bliss" (Micah)
  5:26
• 31
  Samson, HWV 57: Act One, Scene 3. No. 21 Chorus of Philistines: "Then round about the starry throne"
  2:09
• CD 19: Samson - Act II
• 1
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Despair not thus!" (Manoa, Samson)
  1:25
• 2
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 22 Air: "Just are the ways of God to man" (Manoa)
  3:26
• 3
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "My evils hopeless are!" (Samson, Micah)
  0:46
• 4
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 23 Air: "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Micah)
  8:38
• 5
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "But who is this?" (Micah, Samson, Dalila)
  3:15
• 6
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 25 Air: "With plaintive notes and am'rous moan" (Dalila)
  7:06
• 7
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Alas! th'event was worse than I foresaw" (Dalila) / Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila)
  0:54
• 8
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 26 Air: "Your charms to ruin led the way" (Samson)
  3:36
• 9
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Forgive what's done" (Dalila)
  0:30
• 10
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 27 Duet: "My (Her) faith and truth, oh Samson, prove" (Dalila, Virgin) / Act Two, Scene 2. No. 28 Chorus of Virgins: "Her faith and truth, oh Samson, prove"
  6:14
• 11
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 29 Air & Chorus: "To fleeting pleasures make your court" (Dalila)
  4:53
• 12
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ne'er think of that!" (Samson, Dalila)
  1:27
• 13
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 30 Duet: "Traitor to love! I'll sue no more" (Dalila, Samson)
  1:57
• 14
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 31 Air: "It is not virtue, valour, wit" (Micah)
  4:12
• 15
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Favour'd of heav'n" (Samson)
  0:22
• 16
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 32 Chorus of Israelites: "To man God's universal law"
  2:31
• 17
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "No words of peace" (Micah, Harapha, Samson)
  1:38
• 18
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 33 Air: "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" (Harapha)
  5:40
• 19
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Put on your arms" (Samson)
  0:10
• 20
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 34 Air: "My strength is from the living God" (Samson)
  2:53
• 21
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "With thee! a man condemn'd" (Harapha, Samson)
  0:41
• 22
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 35 Duet: "Go, baffled coward, go" (Samson, Harapha)
  2:16
• 23
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Here lie the proof" (Micah)
  0:46
• 24
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 36 Chorus of Israelites: "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!"
  3:14
• 25
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Dagon, arise!" (Harapha)
  0:13
• 26
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 37a Air: "To song and dance we give the day" (Philistine man)
  4:04
• 27
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 37b Chorus of Philistines: "To song and dance we give the day" (Chorus)
  1:57
• 28
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 38 Chorus of Israelites and Philistines: "Fix'd in his everlasting seat"
  3:03
• CD 20: Samson - Act III
• 1
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "More trouble is behind: for Harapha" (Micah, Samson, Harapha)
  1:23
• 2
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 39 Air: "Presuming slave, to move their wrath" (Harapha)
  3:01
• 3
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Reflect then, Samson" (Micah, Samson)
  0:50
• 4
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 40 Chorus of Israelites: "With thunder arm'd great God, arise!"
  2:55
• 5
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Be of good courage" (Samson, Micah, Harapha)
  2:23
• 6
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 42 Air: "Thus when the sun from's wat'ry bed" (Samson)
  3:54
• 7
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 43 Accompagnato: "With might endued above the sons of men" (Micah)
  0:25
• 8
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 44 Air: "The Holy One of Israel by thy guide" (Micah)
  2:22
• 9
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Old Manoa" (Micah, Manoa)
  0:26
• 10
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 46 Air & Chorus of Philistines: "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (Philistine man)
  4:28
• 11
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "What noise of joy was that?" (Manoa, Micah)
  0:47
• 12
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 48 Air: "How willing my paternal love" (Manoa)
  3:36
• 13
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" (Micah, Manoa) / Act Three, Scene 2. No. 49 Symphony / Act Three, Scene 2. No. 50 Chorus of Philistines: "Hear us, our God, oh hear our cry!"
  1:57
• 14
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Noise call you this?" (Micah, Manoa)
  0:40
• 15
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Where shall I run?" (Messenger, Micah, Manoa)
  3:49
• 16
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 51 Air: "Ye sons of Israel, now lament" (Micah) / Act Three, Scene 3. No. 52 Chorus of Israelites: "Weep, Israel, weep a louder strain"
  3:20
• 17
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Proceed we hence" (Manoa)
  0:46
• 18
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 53 Dead March
  3:06
• 19
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "The body comes" (Micah, Manoa)
  1:10
• 20
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 54 Soli and Chorus of Israelites: "Glorious hero, may thy grave" (Manoa, Israelite woman)
  5:12
• 21
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Come, come!" (Manoa, Micah)
  1:02
• 22
  Samson, HWV 57: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 55 Air: "Let the bright Seraphim in burning row" (Israelite woman) / Act Three, Scene 3. Chorus of Israelites: "Let their celestial concerts all unite"
  6:25
• CD 21: Semele - Act I
• 1
  Semele, HWV 58: Overture - Gavotte
  9:04
• 2
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Accompagnato: "Behold! auspicious flashes rise!" (Priest)
  1:26
• 3
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus: "Lucky omens bless our rites" (Priests)
  3:08
• 4
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Recitative and Arioso: "Daughter, obey, hear and obey!" (Cadmus, Athamas)
  0:58
• 5
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Accompagnato: "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?" - No. 5 Air "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" (Semele)
  2:44
• 6
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "The morning lark to mine accords his note" (Semele)
  7:05
• 7
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "See, she blushing turns her eyes" (Athamas)
  0:18
• 8
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 7 Air: "Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare" (Athamas)
  4:38
• 9
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Alas! she yields, and has undone me" (Ino, Athamas, Semele)
  0:48
• 10
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 8 Quartetto: "Why dost thou thus untimely grieve" (Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele)
  2:45
• 11
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 9 Chorus: "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" (Priests)
  2:00
• 12
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 10 Accompagnato: "Again auspicious flashes rise" (Cadmus)
  0:39
• 13
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores!" (Athamas, Semele)
  0:17
• 14
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 1. No. 11 Chorus: "Cease, cease your vows, 'tis impious to proceed" (Priests)
  0:36
• 15
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne!" (Athamas)
  0:30
• 16
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. No. 12 Air: "Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes" (Ino)
  8:26
• 17
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "She weeps!" (Athamas)
  0:25
• 18
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. No. 13 Air: "Your tuneful voice my tale would tell" (Athamas)
  4:56
• 19
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me" (Ino, Athamas)
  0:47
• 20
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 2. No. 14 Duetto: "You've undone me / With my life I would atone" (Ino, Athamas)
  2:29
• 21
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Ah, wretched prince, doom'd to disastrous love!" (Cadmus, Athamas) - No. 15 Accompagnato: "Wing'd with our fears and pious haste" (Cadmus) - Recitative: "O prodigy, to me of dire portent!" (Athamas, Ino) / Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "See, see, Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come" (Cadmus)
  2:07
• 22
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 4. No. 16 Chorus: "Hail Cadmus, hail!" (Priests, Augurs)
  1:34
• 23
  Semele, HWV 58: Act One, Scene 4. Nos. 17 & 18 Air and Chorus: Endless pleasure, endless love" (Semele, Chorus)
  4:30
• CD 22: Semele - Act II
• 1
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two. Symphony
  1:31
• 2
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Iris, impatient of thy stay" (Juno, Iris)
  0:46
• 3
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 20 Air: "There from mortal cares retiring" (Iris)
  3:27
• 4
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "No more - I'll hear no more!" (Juno) - No. 21 Accompagnato: "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy!" (Juno, Iris)
  1:55
• 5
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 22 Air: "Hence, Iris, hence away" (Juno)
  3:23
• 6
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 23 Air: "Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?" (Semele)
  3:10
• 7
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Let me not another moment bear the pangs of absence" (Semele)
  0:16
• 8
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "Lay your doubts and fears aside" (Jupiter)
  3:02
• 9
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "You are mortal and require time to rest" (Jupiter)
  0:23
• 10
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 25 Air: "With fond desiring" (Semele)
  2:54
• 11
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 26 Chorus: "How engaging, how endearing" (Loves, Zephyrs)
  3:06
• 12
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Ah me! / Why sighs my Semele!" (Semele, Jupiter)
  1:23
• 13
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 27 Air: "I must with speed amuse her" (Jupiter)
  3:44
• 14
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 28 Chorus: "Now Love that everlasting boy invites" (Loves, Zephyrs)
  2:21
• 15
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "By my command" (Jupiter, Semele)
  1:18
• 16
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 29 Air: "Where'er you walk" (Jupiter)
  4:53
• 17
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Dear sister, how was your passage hither?" (Semele, Ino)
  0:46
• 18
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 30 Air: "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" (Ino)
  2:14
• 19
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 31 Duetto: "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" (Semele, Ino)
  2:02
• 20
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 32 Chorus: "Bless the glad earth with heav'nly lays" (Nymphs, Swains)
  2:43
• CD 23: Semele - Act III
• 1
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 33 [Symphony] Larghetto e piano per tutto
  1:22
• 2
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 34 Accompagnato: "Somnus, awake, raise thy reclining head!" (Juno, Iris)
  0:31
• 3
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 35 Air: "Leave me, loathsome light" (Somnus)
  3:07
• 4
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" (Iris, Juno)
  0:40
• 5
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 36 Air: "More sweet is that name" (Somnus)
  2:14
• 6
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "My will obey, she shall be thine" (Juno, Somnus)
  1:23
• 7
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 37 Duetto: "Obey my will / All I must grant" (Juno, Somnus)
  1:53
• 8
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 38 Air: "My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed" (Semele)
  2:53
• 9
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Thus shap'd like Ino" (Juno, Semele)
  1:14
• 10
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Air: "Behold this mirror" (Juno)
  2:40
• 11
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "O ecstasy of happiness" (Semele)
  0:19
• 12
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 39 Air: "Myself I shall adore" (Semele)
  6:39
• 13
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Be wise, as you are beautiful" (Juno, Semele)
  0:37
• 14
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 40 Accompagnato: "Conjure him by his oath" (Juno)
  1:28
• 15
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 41 Air: "Thus let my thanks be paid" (Semele)
  2:13
• 16
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" (Juno, Semele)
  0:32
• 17
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 42 Air: Come to my arms, my lovely fair" (Jupiter)
  2:58
• 18
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "O Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" (Jupiter) - No. 43 Air: "I ever am granting, you always complain" (Semele)
  1:42
• 19
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Speak, speak what you desire" (Jupiter, Semele)
  0:15
• 20
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 44 Accompagnato: "By that tremendous flood, I swear" (Jupiter)
  0:27
• 21
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "You'll grant what I require?" (Semele, Jupiter) - No. 45 Accompagnato: "Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)
  0:34
• 22
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 46 Air: "Ah, take heed what you press" (Jupiter)
  1:11
• 23
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 47 Air: "No, no! I'll take no less" (Semele)
  5:14
• 24
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 48 Accompagnato: "Ah! whither is she gone!" (Jupiter)
  3:01
• 25
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 6. No. 49 Air: "Above measure is the pleasure, which my revenge supplies" (Juno)
  2:22
• 26
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 7. No. 50 Accompagnato: "Ah me! too late I now repent" (Semele)
  3:44
• 27
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. Recitative: "Of my ill-boding dream" (Ino)
  0:21
• 28
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. No. 51 Chorus: "Oh, terror and astonishment!"
  3:56
• 29
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. Recitative: "How I was hence remov'd" (Ino, Cadmus, Athamas)
  1:00
• 30
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. No. 52 Air: "Despair no more shall wound me" (Athamas)
  5:03
• 31
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene 8. Recitative: "See from above the bellying clouds descend" (Cadmus)
  0:17
• 32
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene the last. No. 53 Sinfonia
  1:29
• 33
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene the last. No. 54 Accompagnato: "Apollo comes, to relieve your care" (Apollo)
  0:57
• 34
  Semele, HWV 58: Act Three, Scene the last. No. 55 Chorus: "Happy, happy shall we be"
  2:56
• CD 24: Hercules - Act I
• 1
  Hercules, HWV 60: Overture
  4:32
• 2
  Hercules, HWV 60: Menuetto
  2:03
• 3
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Accompagnato: "See with what sad dejection" (Lichas)
  2:02
• 4
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" (Lichas)
  5:45
• 5
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Accompagnato: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me" (Dejanira)
  0:50
• 6
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Air: "The world, when day's career is run" (Dejanira)
  4:31
• 7
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best" (Lichas, Dejanira) / Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "My son! dear image of thy absent sire!" (Dejanira, Hyllus, Lichas)
  1:25
• 8
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "I feel, I feel the god" (Hyllus)
  1:33
• 9
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast" (Hyllus, Dejanira)
  0:58
• 10
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "There in myrtle shades reclined" (Dejanira)
  3:21
• 11
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend" (Hyllus)
  0:27
• 12
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "Where congealed the northern streams" (Hyllus)
  1:53
• 13
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 2. No. 8 Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
  5:18
• 14
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Banish your fears!" (Lichas, Dejanira)
  0:31
• 15
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. No. 9 Air: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away" (Dejanira)
  3:27
• 16
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. Recitative: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" (Lichas, Hyllus, Dejanira)
  0:55
• 17
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. No. 10 Air: "The smiling hours" (Lichas)
  1:21
• 18
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 3. No. 11 Chorus: "Let none despair"
  2:26
• 19
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 4. No. 13 March
  1:49
• 20
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "Thanks to the powers above" (Hercules) / Act One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Oechalia's fall is added to my titles" (Hercules, Iole)
  1:27
• 21
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "My father! Ah! methinks I see" (Iole)
  5:56
• 22
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Now farewell, arms!" (Hercules)
  0:26
• 23
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. No. 15 Air: "The god of battle" (Hercules)
  2:24
• 24
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope" (Iole)
  0:27
• 25
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. No. 12 Air: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty" (Iole)
  5:55
• 26
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act One, Scene 6. No. 16 Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
  2:28
• CD 25: Hercules - Act II
• 1
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Symphonie
  1:11
• 2
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Why was I born a princess" (Iole)
  0:18
• 3
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (Iole)
  5:57
• 4
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "It must be so" (Dejanira, Iole)
  0:38
• 5
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 19 Air: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears" (Dejanira)
  2:48
• 6
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (Iole, Dejanira)
  1:10
• 7
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Air: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove" (Iole)
  5:52
• 8
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (Dejanira, Lichas)
  0:19
• 9
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "In vain you strive" (Dejanira, Lichas)
  0:16
• 10
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
  5:18
• 11
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "She knows my passion" (Hyllus, Iole)
  1:45
• 12
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Air: "Banish love from thy breast" (Iole)
  2:17
• 13
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Forgive a passion" (Hyllus)
  0:10
• 14
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "From celestial seats descending" (Hyllus)
  5:37
• 15
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 25 Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
  2:04
• 16
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Yes, I congratulate" (Dejanira, Hercules)
  0:45
• 17
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 26 Air: "Alcides' name in latest story" (Hercules)
  4:47
• 18
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!" (Dejanira)
  0:30
• 19
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 27 Air: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (Dejanira)
  4:55
• 20
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied" (Hercules, Dejanira)
  1:29
• 21
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 28 Air: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" (Dejanira)
  3:50
• 22
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (Dejanira, Lichas)
  1:26
• 23
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. No. 21 Air: "As stars, that rise and disappear" (Lichas)
  3:54
• 24
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "But see, the princess Iole" (Dejanira) / Act Two, Scene 5. Recitative: " Forgive me, princess" (Dejanira, Iole)
  1:16
• 25
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 5. No. 30 Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (Iole, Dejanira)
  2:33
• 26
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "Father of Hercules" (Dejanira)
  0:18
• 27
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Two, Scene 5. No. 31 Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
  3:55
• CD 26: Hercules - Act III
• 1
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 32 Symfony
  3:54
• 2
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief" (Lichas, Trachinian man)
  1:26
• 3
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 33 Air: "O scene of unexampled woe" (Lichas)
  3:07
• 4
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 34 Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
  4:15
• 5
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 2. Accompagnato: "O Jove! what land is this" (Hercules)
  2:24
• 6
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!" (Hyllus) - No. 36 Accompagnato: "Was it for this unnumber'd toils I bore?" (Hercules, Hyllus)
  2:09
• 7
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 2. No. 37 Air: "Let not fame the tidings spread" (Hyllus)
  4:03
• 8
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 3. No. 38 Accompagnato: "Where shall I fly?" (Dejanira)
  6:14
• 9
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!" (Dejanira, Iole)
  1:17
• 10
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 4. No. 39 Air: "My breast with tender pity swells" (Iole)
  6:49
• 11
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand" (Priest of Jupiter, Dejanira) - Accompagnato: "His mortal part by eating fires consum'd" (Priest of Jupiter)
  1:46
• 12
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 41 Air: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky" (Lichas)
  1:50
• 13
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 42 Recitative and Accompagnato: "Words are too faint" (Dejanira, Priest of Jupiter) - Recitative: " How blest is Hyllus" (Hyllus, Iole)
  1:07
• 14
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 43 Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire" (Iole, Hyllus)
  3:26
• 15
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Ye sons of freedom" (Priest of Jupiter)
  0:17
• 16
  Hercules, HWV 60: Act Three, Scene 5. No. 44 Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
  2:36
• CD 27: Belshazzar - Act I (beginning)
• 1
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Ouverture
  4:38
• 2
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Accompagnato ed Arioso: "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
  5:06
• 3
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Thou, God most high" (Nitocris)
  4:00
• 4
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris) - Recitative: "O much belov'd of God and man!" (Nitocris, Daniel)
  1:15
• 5
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Air: "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
  4:55
• 6
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 4 Chorus of Babylonians: "Behold, by Persia's hero made in ample form"
  2:49
• 7
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe" (Gobrias, Cyrus) - No. 5 Accompagnato: "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!" (Gobrias)
  1:19
• 8
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
  3:33
• 9
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 7 Air: "Dry those unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
  2:13
• 10
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Be comforted" (Cyrus) - No. 8 Accompagnato: "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
  2:35
• 11
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
  1:14
• 12
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Air: "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
  3:16
• 13
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
  0:16
• 14
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Air: "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
  3:49
• 15
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "My friends, be confident, and boldly enter upon this high exploit" (Cyrus)
  0:41
• 16
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 2. No. 11 Chorus [of Medes and Persians]: "All empires upon God depend"
  3:15
• 17
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 3. No. 12 Arioso: "Oh sacred oracles of truth!" (Daniel)
  5:14
• 18
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 3. No. 13 Accompagnato: "Rejoice, my countrymen: the time draws near" (Daniel) - Recitative: "For long ago, whole ages ere this Cyrus yet was born" (Daniel) - No. 14 Accompagnato: "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus, his anointed..." (Daniel)
  3:00
• 19
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 3. No. 15 Chorus [of Jews]: "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
  4:11
• CD 28: Belshazzar - Act I (conclusion), Act II (beginning)
• 1
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 16 Air: "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
  5:03
• 2
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "For you, my friends, the noblese of my court" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
  0:53
• 3
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 17 Air: "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
  7:33
• 4
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
  1:23
• 5
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 18 Chorus of Jews: "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"
  3:53
• 6
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. Recitative: "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
  1:22
• 7
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 19 Duet: "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
  7:15
• 8
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act One, Scene 4. No. 20 Chorus of Jews: "By slow degrees the wrath of God"
  4:22
• 9
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 21 Chorus [of Persians]: "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" - No. 22 Semichorus I: "Why, faithless river, dost thou leave thy charge" - No. 23 Semichorus II: "Euphrates hath his task fulfill'd" - No. 24 Chorus: " Of things on earth, proud man must own"
  6:27
• 10
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "You see, my friends, a path into the city lies open" (Cyrus)
  0:45
• 11
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 25 Air: "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
  4:23
• 12
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 26 Chorus of Persians: "To arms, to arms! No more delay!"
  0:34
• 13
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 27 Chorus of Babylonians: "Ye tutelar gods of our empire, look down"
  2:58
• 14
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 28 Air: "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)
  2:38
• 15
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 29 Accompagnato: "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar) - Chorus [of Babylonians]: "Help, help the king! ... Oh dire portentous sight!" (Chorus, Belshazzar)
  2:41
• 16
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
  0:25
• CD 29: Belshazzar - Act II (conclusion), Act III
• 1
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 30 Symphonie
  1:43
• 2
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" (Belshazzar) - No. 31 Trio: "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (Wise men)
  1:05
• 3
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 32 Chorus [of Babylonians]: "Oh misery! oh terror! Hopeless grief!"
  1:49
• 4
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh king, live for ever!" (Nitocris) - Recitative: "Art thou that Daniel of the Jewish captives?" (Belshazzar)
  1:39
• 5
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 33 Air: "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)
  1:30
• 6
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 34 Accompagnato: "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel) - No. 35 Accompagnato: "The most high God" (Daniel) - No. 36 Accompagnato: " Thou, o king, hast lifted up thyself against the Lord" (Daniel)
  3:13
• 7
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh sentence too severe! and yet too sure!" (Nitocris) - No. 37 Air: "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)
  6:57
• 8
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 38 Air: "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)
  4:37
• 9
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" (Cyrus)
  1:02
• 10
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 39 Chorus [of Persians]: "Oh glorious prince!"
  4:52
• 11
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 40 Air: "Alternate hopes and fears distract my mind" (Nitocris)
  4:28
• 12
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Fain would I hope - is there not room for hope?" (Nitocris, Daniel)
  0:23
• 13
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 41 Air: "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)
  2:26
• 14
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "My hopes revive - Here Arioch comes" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
  1:51
• 15
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 42 Chorus of Jews: "Bel boweth down!"
  1:30
• 16
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 43 Air: "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
  1:37
• 17
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 2. No. 44 A Martial Symphony during which a Battle is suppos'd, in which Belshazzar and his attendants are slain
  0:39
• 18
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 45 Air: "To pow'r immortal my first thanks are due" (Gobrias)
  2:44
• 19
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Be it thy care, good Gobrias to find out the queen" (Cyrus) - No. 46 Air: "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)
  2:54
• 20
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 47 Duet: "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
  3:58
• 21
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Say, venerable prophet, is there aught in Cyrus' pow'r" (Cyrus, Daniel)
  0:55
• 22
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 48 [Soli and] Chorus: "Tell it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King"
  1:37
• 23
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 49 Accompagnato: "Yes, I will build thy city, God of Israel" (Cyrus)
  2:21
• 24
  Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 50 Soli and Chorus: "I will magnify thee, oh God my king!"
  5:28
• CD 30: Judas Maccabaeus - Act I
• 1
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Ouverture (without tempo indication - Allegro - Lentement - Allegro)
  7:55
• 2
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 1 Chorus: "Mourn, ye afflicted children"
  5:37
• 3
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Well, may our sorrows, brethren, flow" (Israelitish man, Israelitish woman)
  1:23
• 4
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 2 Duet: "From this dread scene, these adverse pow'rs" (Israelitish woman and man)
  2:54
• 5
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 3 Chorus: "For Sion lamentation make"
  3:35
• 6
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Not vain is all the storm of grief" (Israelitish man)
  1:10
• 7
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Pious orgies, pious airs" (Israelitish man)
  3:47
• 8
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 5 Chorus: "Oh Father, whose Almighty pow'r"
  2:27
• 9
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 6 Recitative: "I feel, I feel the Deity within" (Simon)
  1:04
• 10
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 7 Air: "Arm, arm, ye brave!" (Simon)
  3:06
• 11
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Chorus: "We come, we come, in bright array"
  1:06
• 12
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "'Tis well, my friends" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  0:50
• 13
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 8 Air: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  2:15
• 14
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "To Heav'n's Almighty king we kneel" (Israelitish woman)
  0:31
• 15
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 9 Air: "Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure" (Israelitish woman)
  2:41
• 16
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 10 Air: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Israelitish woman)
  3:20
• 17
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire" (Israelitish man)
  0:15
• 18
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 11 Air: "'Tis liberty, dear liberty alone" (Israelitish man)
  2:57
• 19
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 12 Duet: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Israelitish woman and man)
  1:19
• 20
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 13 Chorus: "Lead on, lead on! Judah disdains"
  0:50
• 21
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 14 Recitative: "So will'd my father, now at rest" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  1:38
• 22
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 15 Semichorus: "Disdainful of danger, we'll rush on the foe"
  2:13
• 23
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Ambition! if e'er honour was thine aim" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  0:22
• 24
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 16 Air: "No unhallow'd desire" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  2:27
• 25
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. Recitative: "Haste we, my brethren, haste we to the field" (Israelitish man)
  0:12
• 26
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act One. No. 17 Chorus: "Hear us, oh Lord, on thee we call"
  3:43
• CD 31: Judas Maccabaeus - Act II
• 1
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 18 Chorus: "Fall'n is the foe; so fall Thy foes, oh Lord!"
  3:25
• 2
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Victorious hero! Fame shall tell" (Israelitish man)
  0:46
• 3
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 19 Air: "So rapid thy course is" (Israelitish man)
  4:26
• 4
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Well, may we hope our freedom to receive" (Israelitish man)
  0:21
• 5
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 20 Duet And Chorus: "Sion now her head shall rise" (Israelitish woman and man)
  6:46
• 6
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Oh let eternal honours crown his name" (Israelitish woman)
  0:32
• 7
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 21 Air: "From mighty kings he took the spoil" (Israelitish woman)
  8:13
• 8
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 22 Duet And Chorus: "Hail, hail, Judea, happy land!" (Israelitish woman and man)
  2:16
• 9
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Thanks to my brethren, but look up to Heav'n" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  0:49
• 10
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 23 Air: "How vain is man, who boasts in fight" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  5:57
• 11
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Oh Judas, oh my brethren!" (Messenger)
  0:48
• 12
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 24 Solo And Chorus: "Ah! wretched, wretched Israel!" (Israelitish woman)
  6:29
• 13
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Be comforted, - nor think these plagues are sent" (Simon)
  0:44
• 14
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 25 Air: "The Lord worketh wonders" (Simon)
  3:05
• 15
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "My arms! - against this Gorgias will I go" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  0:27
• 16
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 26 Solo and Chorus: "Sound an alarm! your silver trumpets sound" (Judas Maccabaeus) ... "We hear, we hear the pleasing, dreadful call" (Chorus)
  4:44
• 17
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Enough!" To Heav'n we leave the rest" (Simon)
  0:49
• 18
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 27a Air: "With pious hearts, and brave as pious" (Simon)
  2:38
• 19
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. Recitative: "Ye worshippers of God" (Israelitish man, Israelitish woman)
  1:18
• 20
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 27b Air: "Wise men, flatt'ring, may deceive us" (Israelitish woman)
  5:58
• 21
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Two. No. 28 Duet and Chorus: "Oh! never, never bow we down" (Israelitish woman and man)
  6:54
• CD 32: Judas Maccabaeus - Act III
• 1
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 29 Air: "Father of Heav'n! from Thy eternal throne" (Israelitish man)
  7:08
• 2
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 30 Recitative: "See, see yon flames, that from the altar broke" (Israelitish man)
  0:47
• 3
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Oh grant it, Heav'n, that our long woes may cease" (Israelitish woman)
  0:32
• 4
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 31 Air: "So shall the lute and harp awake" (Israelitish woman)
  4:32
• 5
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "From Capharsalama, on eagle wings I fly" (Messenger, Simon)
  1:25
• 6
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Chorus Of Youths: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!" - Chorus Of Virgins: "See, the godlike youth advance!": Chorus: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!"
  2:50
• 7
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 32 March
  1:46
• 8
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 33 Chorus: "Sing unto God, and high affections raise"
  2:54
• 9
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Sweet flow the strains, that strike my feasted ear" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  1:17
• 10
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 34 Air: "With honour let desert be crown'd" (Judas Maccabaeus)
  3:20
• 11
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Peace to my countrymen; peace, and liberty" (Eupolemus)
  0:50
• 12
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 35 Chorus: "To our great God be all the honours giv'n"
  2:28
• 13
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Recitative: "Again to earth let gratitude descend" (Israelitish woman)
  0:56
• 14
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 36 Air, Duet: "Oh lovely peace, with plenty crown'd" (Israelitish woman and man)
  8:10
• 15
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. No. 37 Solo and Chorus: "Rejoice, oh Judah! and in songs divine" (Simon)
  1:51
• 16
  Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Act Three. Chorus: "Hallelujah! Amen"
  1:41
• CD 33: Solomon - Act I
• 1
  Solomon, HWV 67: Overture: [Grave] - Fuga: Allegro moderato - Allegro
  6:41
• 2
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 1 Chorus: "Your harps and cymbals sound"
  3:16
• 3
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 2 Air: "Praise ye the Lord" (Levite)
  5:06
• 4
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 3 Chorus: "With pious heart"
  4:24
• 5
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 4 Accompagnato: "Almighty Pow'r" (Solomon)
  3:19
• 6
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Imperial Salomon" (Zadok) - No. 5 Accompagnato: "See! from the op'ning skies" (Zadok)
  0:39
• 7
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 6 Air: "Sacred raptures" (Zadok)
  4:11
• 8
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 7 Chorus: "Throughout the land"
  3:32
• 9
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Bless'd be the Lord" (Solomon)
  0:31
• 10
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 1. No. 8 Air: "What tho' I trace" (Solomon)
  6:29
• 11
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "And see my queen" (Solomon)
  0:46
• 12
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 9 Air: "Bless'd the day" (Queen)
  4:20
• 13
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Thou fair inhabitant of Nile" (Solomon, Queen)
  0:41
• 14
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 10 Duet: "Welcome as the dawn of day" (Solomon, Queen)
  3:16
• 15
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Vain are the transient beauties" (Zadok)
  0:41
• 16
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 11 Air: "Indulge thy faith" (Zadok)
  3:38
• 17
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "My blooming fair" (Solomon)
  0:11
• 18
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 12 Air: "Haste to the cedar grove" (Solomon)
  2:47
• 19
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "When thou art absent" (Queen)
  0:18
• 20
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 13 Air: "With thee th'unshelter'd moor" (Queen)
  2:10
• 21
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Search round the world" (Zadok)
  0:21
• 22
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act One, Scene 2. No. 14 Chorus: "May no rash intruder"
  4:21
• CD 34: Solomon - Act II
• 1
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 15 Chorus: "From the censer curling rise"
  5:01
• 2
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Prais'd be the Lord" (Solomon)
  1:14
• 3
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 16 Air: "When the sun o'er yonder hills" (Solomon)
  4:05
• 4
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Great prince" (Levite)
  0:21
• 5
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Air: "Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king" (Levite)
  3:09
• 6
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "My sovereign liege" (Attendant, Solomon) / Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Thou son of David" (1st Harlot)
  1:55
• 7
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 18 Trio: "Words are weak" (1st & 2nd Harlots, Solomon)
  5:27
• 8
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "What says the other" (Solomon, 2nd Harlot)
  1:22
• 9
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 19 Air: "Thy sentence, great king" (2nd Harlot)
  1:48
• 10
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Withhold, withhold the executing hand!" (1st Harlot)
  0:13
• 11
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 20 Air: "Can I see my infant gor'd" (1st Harlot)
  4:38
• 12
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 21 Accompagnato: "Israel, attend" (Solomon)
  1:55
• 13
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 22 Duet: "Thrice bless'd be the king" (1st Harlot, Solomon)
  3:39
• 14
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Chorus: "From the east unto the west"
  2:33
• 15
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "From morn to eve" (Zadok)
  0:23
• 16
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "See the tall palm" (Zadok)
  4:52
• 17
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "No more shall armed bands" (1st Harlot)
  0:22
• 18
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 25 Air: "Beneath the vine" (1st Harlot)
  5:02
• 19
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Two, Scene 3. No. 26 Chorus: "Swell, swell the full chorus"
  2:57
• CD 35: Solomon - Act III
• 1
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three. No. 27 Sinfonia
  2:54
• 2
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "From Arabia's spicy shores" (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
  1:19
• 3
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 28 Air: "Ev'ry sight these eyes behold" (Queen of Sheba)
  4:15
• 4
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Sweep, sweep the string" (Solomon)
  0:18
• 5
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 29 Solo and Chorus: "Music, spread thy voice around" (Solomon)
  3:48
• 6
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 30 Air and Chorus: "Now a diff'rent measure try" (Solomon)
  1:42
• 7
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Then at once from rage remove" (Solomon)
  0:44
• 8
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 31 Chorus: "Draw the tear from hopeless love"
  3:01
• 9
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Next the tortur'd soul release" (Solomon)
  0:17
• 10
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 32 Solo and Chorus: "Thus rolling surges rise" (Solomon)
  3:19
• 11
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Thy harmony's divine" (Queen of Sheba)
  1:08
• 12
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 33 Air: "Pious king" (Levite)
  2:41
• 13
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Thrice happy king" (Zadok)
  0:50
• 14
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 34 Air: "Golden columns" (Zadok)
  3:09
• 15
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 35 Chorus: "Praise the Lord"
  4:16
• 16
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Gold now is common" (Solomon)
  0:29
• 17
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 36 Air: "How green our fertile pastures look!" (Solomon)
  1:56
• 18
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "May peace in Salem" (Queen of Sheba)
  0:53
• 19
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 37 Air: "Will the sun forget to streak" (Queen of Sheba)
  6:20
• 20
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. Recitative: "Adieu, fair queen" (Solomon)
  0:16
• 21
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 38 Duet: "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows" (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
  2:30
• 22
  Solomon, HWV 67: Act Three, Scene 1. No. 39 Grand Chorus: "The name of the wicked"
  2:24
• CD 36: Theodora - Part I
• 1
  Theodora, HWV 68: Ouverture
  3:03
• 2
  Theodora, HWV 68: Trio
  1:48
• 3
  Theodora, HWV 68: Courante
  1:44
• 4
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "'Tis Dioclesian's natal day" (Valens)
  0:33
• 5
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 1 Air: "Go, my faithful soldier, go" (Valens)
  1:50
• 6
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 2 Chorus of Heathens: "And draw a blessing down"
  2:06
• 7
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. Recitative: "Vouchsafe, dread Sir" (Didymus, Valens)
  0:55
• 8
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 3 Air: "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" (Valens)
  3:20
• 9
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 1. No. 4 Chorus of Heathens: "For ever thus stand fix'd"
  1:37
• 10
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "Most cruel edict" (Didymus)
  0:30
• 11
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. No. 5 Air: "The raptur'd soul" (Didymus)
  8:18
• 12
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. Recitative: "I know thy virtues" (Septimius)
  0:44
• 13
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 2. No. 6 Air: "Descend, kind Pity" (Septimius)
  7:13
• 14
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Though hard, my friends" (Theodora)
  0:28
• 15
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 7 Air: "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu" (Theodora)
  4:18
• 16
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. Recitative: "Oh bright example" (Irene)
  0:27
• 17
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 8 Air: "Bane of virtue" (Irene)
  5:06
• 18
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 3. No. 9 Chorus of Christians: "Come, mighty Father"
  2:35
• 19
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. Recitative: "Fly, fly, my brethren" (Messenger, Irene) - Recitative: "Ah! whither should we fly?" (Irene)
  1:01
• 20
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. No. 10 Air: "As with rosy steps the morn" (Irene)
  6:48
• 21
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 4. No. 11 Chorus: "All pow'r in heav'n"
  2:15
• 22
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Mistaken wretches!" (Septimius)
  0:21
• 23
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. No. 12 Air: "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" (Septimius)
  2:43
• 24
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. Recitative: "Deluded mortal" (Septimius) - No. 13 Accompagnato: "O worse than death indeed" (Theodora)
  1:21
• 25
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 5. No. 14 Air: "Angels, ever bright and fair" (Theodora)
  3:36
• 26
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!" (Didymus, Irene)
  1:11
• 27
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. No. 15 Air: "Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care" (Didymus)
  5:04
• 28
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. Recitative: "Oh love! how great thy pow'r" (Irene)
  0:23
• 29
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part One, Scene 6. No. 16 Chorus of Christians: "Go, gen'rous pious youth"
  4:51
• CD 37: Theodora - Part II (& alternative scene 2)
• 1
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Ye men of Antioch" (Valens)
  0:36
• 2
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 17 Chorus of Heathens: "Queen of summer"
  0:50
• 3
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 18 Air: "Wide spread his name" (Valens)
  2:22
• 4
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. Recitative: "Return, Septimius" (Valens)
  0:36
• 5
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 1. No. 19 Chorus of Heathens: "Venus laughing from the skies"
  1:20
• 6
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 20 Sinfonia
  1:02
• 7
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh thous bright sun!" (Theodora)
  0:39
• 8
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21a Air: "With darkness deep" (Theodora)
  3:55
• 9
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 21b Sinfonia (original version)
  1:22
• 10
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (Theodora)
  0:21
• 11
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 2. No. 22 Air: "Oh that I on wings could rise" (Theodora)
  3:13
• 12
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "Long have I known" (Didymus, Septimius)
  1:21
• 13
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 23 Air: "Though the honours, that Flora" (Septimius)
  3:57
• 14
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. Recitative: "O save her then" (Didymus, Septimius)
  0:35
• 15
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 3. No. 24 Air: "Deeds of kindness to display" (Didymus)
  6:59
• 16
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 4. Recitative: "The clouds begin to veil" (Irene)
  0:38
• 17
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 4. No. 25: "Defend her, Heav'n" (Irene)
  5:00
• 18
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "Or lull'd with grief" (Didymus)
  0:33
• 19
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 26: "Sweet rose and lily" (Didymus)
  2:32
• 20
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. Recitative: "O save me, Heav'n" (Theodora, Didymus)
  1:18
• 21
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 27 Air: "The pilgrim's home" (Theodora)
  2:43
• 22
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 28 Accompagnato: "Forbid it, Heav'n!" (Didymus) - Recitative: "Or, say, what Right have I" (Didymus) - Recitative: "Ah! what is liberty" (Didymus, Theodora)
  1:54
• 23
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 5. No. 29 Duet: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" (Theodora, Didymus)
  4:38
• 24
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 6. Recitative: "'Tis night" (Irene)
  0:47
• 25
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Scene 6. No. 30 Chorus of Christians: "He saw the lovely youth"
  5:18
• 26
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. Recitative: "Oh thou bright sun!" (alternative ending) (Theodora)
  0:39
• 27
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. No. 21c Sinfonia (alternative ending)
  1:40
• 28
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" (Theodora)
  0:21
• 29
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Two, Alternative version of Scene 2. No. 22 Air: "Oh that I on wings could rise" (Theodora)
  3:14
• CD 38: Theodora - Part III
• 1
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 1. No. 31 Air: "Lord, to thee each night and day" (Irene)
  5:11
• 2
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. Recitative: "But see, the good, the virtuous" (Irene)
  0:37
• 3
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 32 Air: "When sunk in anguish and despair" (Theodora)
  3:54
• 4
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 2. No. 33 Solo and Chorus of Christians: "Blest be the hand" (Theodora): Sc.2
  3:27
• 5
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "Undaunted in the court" (Messenger, Irene) - No. 34 Accompagnato: "Oh my Irene, Heav'n is kind" (Theodora)
  1:30
• 6
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. No. 35 Duet: "Whither, Princess, do you fly?" (Irene, Theodora)
  1:09
• 7
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. Recitative: "She's gone disdaining liberty and life" (Irene)
  0:40
• 8
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 3. No. 36 Air: "New scenes of joy come crowding on" (Irene)
  4:34
• 9
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 4. Recitative: "Is it a Christian virtue then" (Valens, Didymus) / Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "Be that my doom" (Theodora, Septimius)
  1:54
• 10
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 37 Air: "From virtue springs each gen'rous deed" (Septimius)
  6:34
• 11
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 38 Air: "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" (Valens)
  1:02
• 12
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "'Tis kind, my friends" (Didymus, Theodora)
  0:53
• 13
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Chorus of Christians: "How strange their ends"
  3:22
• 14
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. Recitative: "On me your frowns" (Didymus, Theodora, Valens)
  0:31
• 15
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 5. No. 40 Air: "Ye ministers of justice" (Valens)
  1:07
• 16
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. Recitative: "And must such beauty suffer" (Didymus, Theodora, Septimius)
  0:55
• 17
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. No. 41 Air and Duet: "Streams of pleasure ever flowing" - "Thither let our hearts aspire" (Didymus, Theodora): Sc.6
  6:04
• 18
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. Recitative: "Ere this their doom is past" (Irene)
  0:21
• 19
  Theodora, HWV 68: Part Three, Scene 6. No. 42 Chorus of Christians: "O Love divine"
  3:02
• CD 39: Jephtha - Act I
• 1
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Ouverture - Menuet
  5:13
• 2
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 1 Accompagnato: "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites" (Zebul)
  1:23
• 3
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 2 Air: "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" (Zebul)
  2:51
• 4
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 3 Chorus: "No more to Ammon's god and king"
  2:54
• 5
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "But Jephtha comes" (Zebul, Jephtha)
  0:52
• 6
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 4 Air: "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (Jephtha)
  4:06
• 7
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" (Storgè) - No. 5 Air: "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" (Storgè)
  4:58
• 8
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" (Hamor) - No. 6 Air: "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor)
  3:50
• 9
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" (Iphis) - No. 7 Air: "Take the heart you fondly gave" (Iphis)
  4:14
• 10
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command" (Hamor) - No. 8 Duet: "These labours past, how happy we!" (Iphis, Hamor)
  7:28
• 11
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "What mean these doubtful fancies" (Jephtha) - No. 9 Accompagnato: "If, Lord, sustain'd by Thy almighty pow'r" (Jephtha) - Recitative: "'Tis said. Attend, ye chiefs" (Jephtha)
  1:57
• 12
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 10 Chorus: "O God, behold our sore distress"
  4:35
• 13
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" (Storgè) - No. 11 Air: "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (Storgè)
  4:57
• 14
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Say, my dear mother" (Iphis)
  0:52
• 15
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 12 Air: "The smiling dawn of happy days" (Iphis)
  3:32
• 16
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. Recitative: "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" (Zebul, Jephtha)
  0:26
• 17
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act One. No. 13 Chorus: "When his loud voice in thunder spoke"
  4:38
• CD 40: Jephtha - Act II
• 1
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" (Hamor)
  1:14
• 2
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 14 Chorus: "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms"
  3:12
• 3
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 15 Air: "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor)
  4:14
• 4
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" (Iphis) - No. 16 Air: "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis)
  4:42
• 5
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people" (Jephtha) - Recitative: "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" (Jephtha) - No. 18 Air: "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" (Jephtha)
  6:28
• 6
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 19 Chorus: "In glory high, in might serene"
  2:32
• 7
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 20 Symphony - Recitative: "Hail, glorious conqueror" (Iphis)
  1:30
• 8
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 21 Solo and Chorus: "Welcome as the cheerful light" (Iphis)
  3:52
• 9
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Horror! confusion!" (Jephtha) - No. 22 Air: "Open thy marble jaws, o tomb" (Jephtha)
  4:59
• 10
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Why is my brother thus afflicted?" (Zebul, Jephtha)
  0:57
• 11
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 23 Accompagnato and Arioso: "First perish thou, and perish all the world!" (Storgè)
  2:19
• 12
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "If such thy cruel purpose" (Hamor) - No. 24 Air: "On me let blind mistaken zeal" (Hamor)
  1:48
• 13
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 25 Quartet: "O spare your daughter!" (Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha)
  3:13
• 14
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. Recitative: "Such news flies swift" (Iphis) - No. 26 Accompagnato: "For joys so vast" (Iphis)
  1:21
• 15
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 27 Air: "Happy they! this vital breath" (Iphis)
  3:32
• 16
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 28 Accompagnato: "Deeper, and deeper still" (Jephtha)
  3:27
• 17
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Two. No. 29 Chorus: "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!"
  8:04
• CD 41: Jephtha - Act III
• 1
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 30 Arioso: "Hide thou thy hated beams, o sun" (Jephtha) - No. 31 Accompagnato: "A father, off'ring up his only child" (Jephtha)
  3:02
• 2
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 32 Air: "Waft her, angels, through the skies" (Jephtha)
  4:30
• 3
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 33 Accompagnato: "Ye sacred priests" (Iphis) - No. 34 Air: "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (Iphis)
  6:27
• 4
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 35 Chorus of Priests: "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe"
  3:49
• 5
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 36 Symphony
  2:44
• 6
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" (Angel)
  1:00
• 7
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 37 Air: "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live" (Angel)
  3:59
• 8
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 38 Arioso: "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Jephtha)
  1:28
• 9
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 39 Chorus: "Theme sublime of endless praise"
  3:23
• 10
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "Let me congratulate this happy turn" (Zebul) - No. 40 Air: "Laud her, all ye virgin train" (Zebul)
  2:21
• 11
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" (Storgè) - No. 41 Air: "Sweet as sight to the blind" (Storgè)
  2:15
• 12
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. Recitative: "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" (Iphis) - No. 43b Quintet: "All that is in Hamor mine" (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Jephtha, Zebul)
  3:37
• 13
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. No. 44 Chorus: "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice"
  2:59
• 14
  Jephtha, HWV 70: Act Three. [Applause]
  0:18

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Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo 2018

Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo

Trio Sonatas for Two Violins and Basso Continuo 2016

Trio Sonatas, Op. 2

Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 2013

Dixit Dominus

Dixit Dominus 2013

Release credits

• Academy of Ancient Music
  performing orchestra [7.1-14, 5.1-12, 2.1-14, 1.1-14, 8.1-19, 6.1-10]
• Academy of Ancient Music Chorus
  choir vocals [5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 5.12, 6.5, 6.10]
• Alastair Miles
  bass vocals [13.1, 13.3, 11.10, 11.15, 11.17-18, 11.24, 12.6, 12.8, 12.10-11, 12.22]
• Alastair Ross
  harpsichord [10.1-15, 9.1-20]
• Albert Kos
  editor [10.1-15, 9.1-20]
• Aled Jones
  soprano vocals [6]
• Alison Bury
  violin [1-4]
• Alison Hagley
  soprano vocals [6-7, 10-11, 13, 17-18]
• Amanda MacNamara
  double bass [10.5-15, 9.1-20]
• Ambrosian Singers
  choir vocals [21.3, 21.11, 21.14, 21.22-23, 22.11, 22.14, 22.20, 23.28, 23.34]
• Andreas Scholl
  countertenor vocals [35.2, 35.4-7, 35.9-10, 35.16-17, 35.20-21, 33.5, 33.9-11, 33.13-14, 33.17-18, 34.2-3, 34.6-8, 34.12-13]
• Andrew King
  tenor vocals [1, 7]
• Andrew Tusa
  tenor vocals [14]
• Angela East
  cello [9.1-20, 10.1-15]
• Angus Smith
  tenor vocals [36.19, 38.5]
• Anne Sofie von Otter
  contralto vocals [17.29, 16.8-9, 16.17-18, 16.21], mezzo-soprano vocals [26.8-9, 26.11, 26.13, 24.5-7, 24.9-10, 24.15-16, 25.4-6, 25.8-9, 25.16, 25.18-22, 25.24-26, 39.7, 39.13, 40.11, 40.13, 41.11-12]
• Anthony Rolfe Johnson
  tenor vocals [29.2, 29.4, 29.16, 4.1, 4.7-8, 4.11-14, 4.17, 6.1-4, 6.6, 6.8, 7.10, 8.12, 8.16, 3.2, 3.5, 3.8-9, 3.12, 28.1-2, 28.4, 28.6-7, 28.14-16]
• Arend Prohmann
  executive [24.1-26, 25.1-27, 26.1-16], producer [25.1-27, 26.1-16, 24.1-26]
• Arleen Augér
  soprano vocals [16.14, 16.16, 16.18, 27.2-4, 17.8-9, 17.15, 17.22, 28.2-4, 28.6-7, 29.4, 29.7, 29.11-12, 29.14, 29.20, 29.24]
• Ashley Stafford
  alto vocals [4], countertenor vocals [10.12-13, 9.15-16]
• Carolyn Watkinson
  contralto vocals [9.11-13, 10.6, 1.7-11, 2.8, 2.10-13]
• Catherine Robbin
  mezzo-soprano vocals [27.7, 27.9-11, 27.13-15, 29.8-9, 29.19-21, 29.23, 28.10-11]
• Catherine Wyn-Rogers
  alto vocals [19.3-5, 19.13-14, 19.17, 19.23, 20.1, 20.3, 20.5, 20.7-9, 20.11, 20.13-16, 20.19, 20.21, 18.11-13, 18.15, 18.17-18, 18.27, 18.30]
• Charles Mackerras
  conductor [30.1-26, 32.1-16, 31.1-21]
• Charlotte Kriesch
  executive [17.1-3, 17.6-7, 17.12, 17.14, 17.17, 17.20-22, 17.29-30, 28.1-16, 16.1, 16.3-4, 16.6-7, 16.9, 16.13, 16.16, 27.1-19, 29.1-24]
• Choir of New College Oxford
  choir vocals [8.1, 8.8, 8.10, 8.12, 8.14, 8.19, 7.1, 7.3-4, 7.8-9, 7.12]
• Christopher Alder
  producer [34.1-19, 38.1-19, 36.1-29, 37.1-29, 33.1-22, 35.1-22]
• Christopher Hogwood
  conductor [1.1-14, 7.1-14, 8.1-19, 2.1-14, 5.1-12, 6.1-10]
• Christopher Keyte
  bass vocals [11]
• Christopher Purves
  bass vocals [4]
• Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre
  choir vocals [24.13, 24.18, 24.26, 25.10, 25.15, 25.27, 26.4, 26.16]
• Dame Janet Baker
  contralto vocals [32.1-2, 32.14, 30.3-4, 30.6-7, 30.17, 30.19, 30.25, 31.2-5, 31.8, 31.19, 31.21]
• David Daniels
  alto vocals [26.2-3, 26.12, 24.3-4, 24.7, 24.14, 24.16-17, 25.8-9, 25.22-23]
• David Thomas
  bass vocals [8.3, 8.15, 7.5, 1.3-6, 6.7, 6.9, 2.4-7, 5.1-2]
• David Wilson‐Johnson
  baritone vocals [27.7-8, 27.11-12, 29.18]
• Derek Lee Ragin
  alto vocals [13.5, 13.10, 13.13, 12.4-5, 12.11, 12.13, 12.15-16, 11.10-11, 11.23]
• Donna Brown
  soprano vocals [11.12, 11.15, 11.25, 12.19-20, 9.5, 9.7, 9.19, 10.9, 10.13, 13.9]
• Donna Deam
  soprano vocals [14]
• Dr Gerd Ploebsch
  producer [17.1-30, 16.1-21, 31.1-21, 32.1-16, 30.1-26]
• Dr. Andreas Holschneider
  executive [17.1-3, 17.6-7, 17.12, 17.14, 17.17, 17.20-22, 17.29-30, 27.1-19, 16.1, 16.3-4, 16.6-7, 16.9, 16.13, 16.16, 28.1-16, 29.1-24]
• Dr. Steven Paul
  producer [23.1-34, 18.2, 18.19, 22.1-20, 21.1-23]
• Drew Minter
  alto vocals [5.7, 5.9, 6.6, 6.10]
• Elisabeth Priday
  soprano vocals [2, 9]
• Emma Kirkby
  soprano vocals [8.2, 8.6-7, 8.13, 8.18, 2.3-6, 2.8-9, 7.2, 7.4, 7.13, 1.2, 1.4-5, 1.13-14, 5.6]
• English Baroque Soloists
  performing orchestra [39.1-17, 41.1-14, 9.1-20, 15.1-16, 3.1-12, 13.1-15, 11.1-29, 14.1-12, 4.1-17, 40.1-17, 12.1-23, 10.1-15]
• English Chamber Orchestra
  performing orchestra [22.1-20, 23.1-34, 32.1-16, 31.1-21, 30.1-26, 18.2, 18.19, 21.1-23]
• Erik Smith
  executive [40.1-17, 41.1-14, 39.1-17]
• Felicity Palmer
  soprano vocals [30.3-4, 30.14-16, 30.19, 31.5-8, 31.12, 31.19-21, 32.3-4, 32.13-14]
• Gabrieli Consort & Players
  choir vocals [34.1, 34.14, 34.19, 35.5-6, 35.8, 35.10, 35.15, 35.22, 33.2, 33.4, 33.8, 33.22], performing orchestra [37.1-29, 35.1, 36.1-29, 38.1-19]
• Gabrieli Players
  performing orchestra [35.1-22, 33.1-22, 34.1-19]
• Gidon Saks
  bass vocals [25.16-17, 25.20, 24.20, 24.22-23, 26.5-6]
• Gilles Pézerat
  balance [26.1-16, 24.1-26, 25.1-27]
• Guillaume Ledu
  recording [25.1-27, 26.1-16, 24.1-26]
• Hans‐Peter Schweigmann
  balance [27.1-19, 29.1-24, 28.1-16], sound [17.1-3, 17.6-7, 17.12, 17.14, 17.17, 17.20-22, 17.29-30, 16.1, 16.3-4, 16.6-7, 16.9, 16.13, 16.16]
• Harry Christophers
  conductor [19.1-28, 20.1-22, 18.1, 18.3-18, 18.20-31]
• Hein Dekker
  recording [40.1-17, 41.1-14, 39.1-17]
• Heinz Wildhagen
  balance [32.1-16, 31.1-21, 30.1-26]
• Helmut Burk
  balance [22.1-20, 18.2, 18.19, 21.1-23, 23.1-34]
• Howard Crook
  tenor vocals [17.4, 17.6-7, 17.11, 17.19-20, 17.27, 16.2-3]
• Ian Partridge
  tenor vocals [5.10, 6.10, 2.1-2, 2.4, 2.8, 2.11-13, 1.9-12]
• Inger Dam-Jensen
  soprano vocals [12-14, 19-20]
• James Bowman
  alto vocals [8.6-7, 8.9, 8.11, 8.13, 7.6, 7.14], countertenor vocals [27.4-5, 27.17-18, 29.5-6, 29.12-13, 29.21, 29.24]
• Joachim Niss
  recording [32.1-16, 30.1-26, 31.1-21]
• Joan Sutherland
  soprano vocals [7.7, 7.11, 8.3, 8.5, 8.13, 8.17]
• John Aler
  tenor vocals [22.8-9, 22.12-13, 22.15-16, 23.3, 23.17-22, 23.24]
• John Dunkerley
  recording [2.1-14, 1.1-14]
• John Mark Ainsley
  tenor vocals [11.11, 11.13, 11.19, 11.24, 11.26-27, 12.2-4, 12.6-7, 12.9-10, 12.22]
• John Nelson
  conductor [18.2, 18.19, 21.1-23, 22.1-20, 23.1-34]
• John Pellowe
  recording [7.1-14, 6.1-10, 5.1-12, 8.1-3, 8.5-19]
• John Shirley‐Quirk
  bass vocals [31.13-14, 31.17-18, 32.5, 32.15, 30.9-10]
• John Tomlinson
  bass vocals [16.5, 16.10-11, 17.17, 17.24-25]
• Jonathan Best
  bass vocals [20.1-2, 20.5, 19.17-18, 19.21-22, 19.25]
• Jonathan Peter Kenny
  alto vocals [11]
• Julia Gooding
  solo [22], soprano vocals [22]
• Julian Clarkson
  bass vocals [4]
• Kathleen Battle
  soprano vocals [23.8-9, 23.11-12, 23.15-16, 23.18-19, 23.21, 23.23, 23.26, 22.6-7, 22.10, 22.12, 22.15, 22.17, 22.19, 21.5-6, 21.9-10, 21.13, 21.23]
• Les Musiciens du Louvre
  instrument [19], performing orchestra [26.1-16, 25.1-27, 24.1-26]
• Lynda Russell
  soprano vocals [5-7, 9-13]
• Lynne Dawson
  soprano vocals [39.9-10, 39.14-15, 26.9-10, 26.13-14, 20.20, 20.22, 25.2-4, 25.6-7, 25.11-12, 25.24-25, 24.20-21, 24.24-25, 40.4, 40.7-8, 40.14-15, 13.12, 18.4, 18.7, 41.3, 41.12, 12.12-13, 12.16-18, 19.10, 11.9, 11.15-16, 11.19-20]
• Marc Minkowski
  conductor [25.1-27, 24.1-26, 26.1-16]
• Marcus Pujol
  bass vocals [11, 13, 15]
• Marilyn Horne
  mezzo-soprano vocals [23.2, 23.4, 23.6-7, 23.9-10, 23.13-14, 23.16, 23.25, 23.27, 23.29, 22.2, 22.4-5, 22.17-19, 21.9-10, 21.16, 21.19-21]
• Mark Padmore
  tenor vocals [18.6, 18.20-21, 20.10, 19.26]
• Mark S. Doss
  bass vocals [2]
• Martyn Hill
  tenor vocals [4.1, 4.6, 4.9, 4.13-14, 4.17, 3.2, 3.6-7]
• Matthew Vine
  tenor vocals [15]
• Maya Homburger
  violin [1-4]
• Michael Chance
  alto vocals [15.13, 16.6, 17.13, 17.26-27], countertenor vocals [39.8, 39.10, 23.29-30, 21.4, 21.7-10, 21.13, 21.15, 21.17-21, 18.2, 40.1, 40.3, 40.12-13, 41.12]
• Michael George
  bass vocals [20.9, 20.11-15, 20.17, 20.19-21, 19.1-2, 18.18, 18.22-24, 18.29]
• Michel Gache
  editor [25.1-27, 26.1-16, 24.1-26], producer [24.1-26, 25.1-27, 26.1-16]
• Mike Clements
  engineer [21.12, 21.15, 19.1-28, 20.1-22, 18.1-31]
• Monteverdi Choir
  choir vocals [13.7, 13.11, 13.13, 13.15, 15.1, 15.3, 15.5-7, 15.10, 15.12, 15.14-16, 11.5-8, 11.16-17, 11.29, 41.4, 41.9, 41.13, 39.4, 39.12, 39.17, 12.1, 12.13, 12.23, 40.2, 40.6, 40.8, 40.17, 9.3, 9.6, 9.9, 9.14, 9.18, 9.20, 10.5, 10.9-11, 10.15, 14.2-12]
• Neal Davies
  bass vocals [38.9, 38.11, 38.14-15, 36.4-5, 36.7-8, 37.1, 37.3-4]
• Neil Mackie
  tenor vocals [13.8, 13.14, 23.33, 11.14, 11.21, 11.28]
• Nicolas Robertson
  solo [22], tenor vocals [29.2, 29.14, 29.22, 14.2]
• Nigel Robson
  tenor vocals [10.5, 10.7-8, 10.10, 10.14, 39.5-6, 39.11, 39.16, 9.2-4, 9.8, 9.10, 9.17, 41.1-2, 41.2, 41.8, 41.12, 40.5, 40.9-10, 40.13, 40.16]
• Nigel Short
  alto vocals [2, 22], solo [22]
• Norma Burrowes
  soprano vocals [3.2-4, 3.10-12, 4.1, 4.4, 4.10-11, 4.13-17]
• Onno Scholtze
  balance [39.1-17, 10.1-15, 15.1-16, 13.1-16, 14.1-12, 9.1-20, 12.1-23, 11.1-30, 40.1-17, 41.1-14]
• Orchestra of The Sixteen
  performing orchestra [20.1-22, 19.1-28, 18.1, 18.3-18, 18.20-31]
• Patrick Collin
  alto vocals [2]
• Patrizia Kwella
  soprano vocals [1.7-13, 6.2-3, 6.8, 6.10, 5.9, 5.11, 2.4, 2.7-10, 2.12-13]
• Paul Agnew
  tenor vocals [35.13-14, 37.12-14, 38.9-10, 38.16, 33.6-7, 33.15-16, 33.21, 36.12-13, 36.22-24, 34.15-16]
• Paul Elliott
  tenor vocals [3.2, 4.1, 4.13-14, 4.17, 5.4]
• Paul Esswood
  countertenor vocals [31.11, 32.5]
• Paul McCreesh
  conductor [33.1-22, 34.1-19, 37.1-29, 38.1-19, 35.1-22, 36.1-29]
• Paul Tindall
  tenor vocals [14]
• Peter Harvey
  baritone vocals [35.12, 33.3, 34.4-5]
• Peter Wadland
  producer [2.1-14, 7.1-14, 8.1-3, 8.5-19, 6.1-10, 5.1-12, 1.1-14]
• Philip Salmon
  tenor vocals [15.8, 15.11, 13.1-2, 14.3]
• Philip Slane
  tenor vocals [11.10, 11.22, 13.5]
• Reinhard Lagemann
  recording [35.1-22, 33.1-22, 34.1-19]
• Reinhild Schmidt
  editor [32.1-16, 31.1-21, 30.1-26]
• Richard Croft
  tenor vocals [24.7-9, 24.11-12, 24.16, 25.11, 25.13-14, 26.6-7, 26.13-14]
• Richard Wistreich
  bass vocals [2, 14]
• Robin Blaze
  countertenor vocals [37.12, 37.14-15, 37.18-20, 37.22-23, 36.7, 36.10-11, 36.26-27, 38.9, 38.12, 38.14, 38.16-17]
• Ruth Holton
  soprano vocals [15.2, 41.6-7, 11.6-7]
• Ryland Davies
  tenor vocals [32.9-10, 31.9, 31.15-16, 30.12-13, 30.21, 30.23-24]
• Samuel Ramey
  bass vocals [21.4, 21.10, 21.12, 21.21, 23.3, 23.5-7, 23.31, 18.19]
• Simon Oberst
  bass vocals [17]
• Sir John Eliot Gardiner
  conductor [4.1-17, 14.1-12, 15.1-16, 39.1-17, 41.1-14, 10.1-15, 9.1-20, 40.1-17, 13.1-15, 11.1-29, 3.1-12, 12.1-23]
• Stan Taal
  editor [39.1-17, 40.1-17, 41.1-14], recording [12.1-23, 11.1-30, 13.1-16, 39.1-17, 40.1-17, 15.1-16, 14.1-12, 41.1-14]
• Stephen Varcoe
  baritone vocals [41.10, 41.12, 39.2-3, 39.5, 39.16, 40.10, 40.13], bass vocals [10.6, 10.14, 9.9]
• Susan Bickley
  contralto vocals [7-9], mezzo-soprano vocals [38.1-2, 38.5, 38.7-8, 38.18, 37.16-17, 37.24, 36.16-17, 36.19-20, 36.26, 36.28]
• Susan Gritton
  soprano vocals [37.7-8, 37.10-11, 37.20-21, 37.26, 37.28-29, 35.2-3, 35.11, 35.18-19, 35.21, 38.5, 38.9, 38.12, 38.14, 38.16-17, 36.14-15, 36.24-25]
• Sylvia McNair
  soprano vocals [22.2-4, 23.4]
• The English Concert
  performing orchestra [17.1-30, 16.1-21, 27.1-19, 28.1-16, 29.1-24]
• The English Concert Choir
  choir vocals [29.3, 29.10, 29.15, 29.22, 29.24, 27.6, 27.16, 27.19, 28.5, 28.8-9, 28.12-13, 28.15, 17.1-3, 17.5, 17.10, 17.12, 17.14, 17.16, 17.18, 17.21, 17.23, 17.28-30, 16.4, 16.7, 16.9, 16.12, 16.15, 16.19-20]
• The Sixteen
  choir vocals [18.3, 18.5, 18.8, 18.16, 18.28, 18.31, 19.4, 19.10-11, 19.16, 19.24, 19.27-28, 20.4, 20.10, 20.13, 20.16, 20.20, 20.22]
• Thomas Randle
  tenor vocals [19.1, 19.3, 19.5, 19.7-8, 19.12-13, 19.15, 19.17, 19.19-21, 20.1, 20.3, 20.5-6, 18.9-10, 18.13-14, 18.17, 18.24-26, 18.29]
• Tony Bridge
  editor [39.1-17, 40.1-17, 41.1-14]
• Trevor Pinnock
  conductor [27.1-19, 17.1-30, 16.1-21, 28.1-16, 29.1-24]
• Ulrich Vette
  balance [34.1-19, 35.1-22, 33.1-22], editor [16.1, 16.3-4, 16.6-7, 16.9, 16.13, 16.16, 17.1-3, 17.6-7, 17.12, 17.14, 17.17, 17.20-22, 17.29-30]
• Una Marchetti
  executive [39.1-17, 40.1-17, 41.1-14]
• Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir
  choir vocals [31.1, 31.5, 31.8, 31.12, 31.16, 31.21, 32.6, 32.8, 32.12, 32.15-16, 30.2, 30.5, 30.8, 30.11, 30.20, 30.22, 30.26]
• Westminster Cathedral Choir
  choir vocals [6.5, 6.10, 5.3, 5.5, 5.8, 5.12]
• Wilhelm Hellweg
  producer [11.1-30, 14.1-12, 15.1-16, 40.1-17, 41.1-14, 12.1-23, 39.1-17, 13.1-16, 9.1-20, 10.1-15]
• Willard White
  bass vocals [4.1-5, 4.11, 4.13-14, 4.17, 3.2]
• Willem van Leeuwen
  recording [9.1-20, 10.1-15]
• Yves Baudry
  editor [26.1-16, 25.1-27, 24.1-26], recording [25.1-27, 26.1-16, 24.1-26]
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Issues

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  Handel: The Great Oratorios

  41x CD
  1 July 2016