Paradise Lost

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Book I, line 1: 'Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit'
  7:51
• 2
  Book I, line 128: 'O Price, O Chief of many Throned Powers'
  4:47
• 3
  Book I, line 242: 'Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime'
  6:38
• 4
  Book I, line 375: 'All these and more came flocking; but with looks'
  5:31
• 5
  Book I, line 622: 'O Myriads of immortal Spirits, O Powers'
  5:35
• 6
  Book I, line 722: ' … Th'ascending pile'
  4:20
• 7
  Book II, line 1: 'High on a Throne of Toyal State, which far'
  7:31
• 8
  Book II, line 119: 'I should be much for open War, O Peers'
  6:45
• 9
  Book II, line 229: 'Either to disinthrone the King of Heav'n'
  4:43
• 10
  Book II, line 310: 'Thrines and imperial Powers, off-spring of heav'n'
  5:18
• 11
  Book II, line 390: 'Well have ye judg'd, well ended long debate'
  2:39
• 12
  Book II, line 430: 'O Progeny of Heav'n, Empyreal thrones'
  3:02
• 13
  Book II, line 506: 'The Stygian Council thus dissolved; and forth'
  5:51
• 14
  Book II, line 704: 'So spake the griesly terrour, and in shape'
  8:37
• CD 2
• 1
  Line 850: 'The key of this infernal Pit by due'
  6:59
• 2
  Line 968: 'T' whom Satan turning boldly thus. Ye Powers'
  5:04
• 3
  Book III Paraphrase: God, sitting on his throne
  1:54
• 4
  Book IV Line 1: 'O for that warning voice, which he who saw'
  7:24
• 5
  Line 114: 'Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face'
  3:18
• 6
  Line 172: 'No to th'ascent of that steep savage Hill'
  3:35
• 7
  Line 246: '............Thus was this place'
  6:20
• 8
  Line 358: 'O Hell! what do mine eyes with grief behold'
  5:29
• 9
  Line 440: 'To whom thus Eve repli'd. O thou for whom'
  3:16
• 10
  Line 492: 'So spake our general Mother, and with eyes'
  3:09
• 11
  Book V-VIII Paraphase: 'Meanwhile, Uriel, descending'
  2:16
• 12
  Book IX Line 1: 'No more talk of where God or Angel Guest'
  5:33
• 13
  Line 99: 'O Earth, how like to Heav'n, if not preferr'd'
  6:57
• 14
  Line 194: 'And Eve first to her Husband thus began.'
  3:48
• 15
  Line 270: 'To whom the Virgin Majesty of Eve'
  5:27
• 16
  Line 376: 'So spake the Patriarch of Mankind, but Eve'
  7:05
• CD 3
• 1
  Book IX Line 494: 'So spake the Enemy of Mankind, enclos'd'
  4:12
• 2
  Line 567: 'To whom the guileful Tempter thus repli'd'
  2:37
• 3
  Line 612: 'Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt'
  3:39
• 4
  Line 679: 'O Sacred, Wise and Wisdom-giving Plant'
  4:13
• 5
  Line 745: 'Great are thy Virtues, doubtless, best of Fruits'
  6:56
• 6
  Line 856: 'Hast thou not wonder'd Adam, at my stay?'
  2:35
• 7
  Line 896: 'O fairest of Creation, last and best'
  4:42
• 8
  Line 960: 'So Adam, and thus Eve to him repli'd.'
  4:43
• 9
  Line 1034: 'So said he, and forbore not glance or toy'
  6:18
• 10
  Line 1134: 'Would thou hadst heark'n'd to my words, & stay'd'
  3:15
• 11
  Book X Paraphrase: 'Man's disobedience known'
  0:38
• 12
  Line 68: 'Father Eternal, thine is to decree'
  9:07
• 13
  Line 229: 'Meanwhile ere thus was sinn'd & judg'd on Earth
  4:58
• 14
  Line 354: 'O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds'
  3:56
• 15
  Line 460: 'Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers'
  7:19
• 16
  Books XI and XII Paraphrase: 'Meanwhile Sin and Death rejoice'
  1:52
• 17
  Book XII Line 553: 'How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest'
  7:50

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Release credits

• Anton Lesser
  spoken vocals, spoken vocals

Issues

• P
  Paradise Lost

  3x CD (abridged)
  August 1994