Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert Choir

Handel: Belshazzar

2 MINUTES AND 41 SECONDS

Album tracklist

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 - Overture

04:38

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"

05:06

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"

04:00

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"

01:15

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"

04:55

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Behold, by Persia's hero made"

02:49

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"

01:19

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Opprest with never-ceasing grief"

03:33

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Dry those unavailing tears"

02:13

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"

02:35

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Now, tell me, Gobrias"

01:14

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Behold the monstrous human beast"

03:16

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Can you then think it strange"

00:16

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Great God! who, yet but darkly known"

03:49

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "My friends, be confident"

00:41

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "All empires upon God depend"

03:15

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"

05:14

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"

03:00

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"

04:11

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Let festal joy triumphant reign!"

05:03

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "For you, my friends"

00:54

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "The leafy honours of the field"

07:34

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "It is the custom, I may say, the law"

01:23

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"

03:54

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "They tell you true"

01:23

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!"

07:13

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "By slow degrees the wrath of God"

04:15

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"

06:26

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "You see, my friends, a path"

00:46

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Amaz'd to find the foe so near"

04:23

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "To arms, to arms! no more delay!"

00:35

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"

02:59

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"

02:38

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"

02:41

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Call all my Wise Men"

00:26

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - A Sinfony

01:43

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes"

01:06

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"

01:50

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh king, live for ever!"

01:40

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "No! to thyself thy trifles be"

01:31

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Yet, to obey his dread command"

03:13

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"

06:56

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!"

04:36

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"

01:02

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh glorious prince!"

04:41

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Alternate hopes and fears"

04:28

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Fain would I hope"

00:23

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"

02:26

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "My hopes revive"

01:51

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Bel boweth down!"

01:31

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "I thank thee, Sesach"

01:38

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - A Martial Symphony

00:39

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "To pow'r immortal my first thanks"

02:45

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"

02:55

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Great victor, at your feet I bow"

03:59

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Say, venerable prophet"

00:56

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Tell it out among the heathen"

01:38

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Yes, I will build thy city"

02:22

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "I will magnify thee"

05:27

Handel: Belshazzar

Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"