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The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert Choir

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

The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert Choir

Handel: Belshazzar

6 MINUTES AND 26 SECONDS

Album tracklist

1
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 - Overture
04:38
2
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"
05:06
3
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"
04:00
4
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"
01:15
5
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"
04:55
6
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Behold, by Persia's hero made"
02:49
7
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"
01:19
8
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Opprest with never-ceasing grief"
03:33
9
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Dry those unavailing tears"
02:13
10
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"
02:35
11
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Now, tell me, Gobrias"
01:14
12
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Behold the monstrous human beast"
03:16
13
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Can you then think it strange"
00:16
14
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Great God! who, yet but darkly known"
03:49
15
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "My friends, be confident"
00:41
16
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "All empires upon God depend"
03:15
17
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"
05:14
18
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"
03:00
19
Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
04:11
20
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Let festal joy triumphant reign!"
05:03
21
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "For you, my friends"
00:54
22
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "The leafy honours of the field"
07:34
23
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "It is the custom, I may say, the law"
01:23
24
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"
03:54
25
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "They tell you true"
01:23
26
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!"
07:13
27
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "By slow degrees the wrath of God"
04:15
28
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
06:26
29
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "You see, my friends, a path"
00:46
30
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Amaz'd to find the foe so near"
04:23
31
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "To arms, to arms! no more delay!"
00:35
32
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
02:59
33
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"
02:38
34
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"
02:41
35
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Call all my Wise Men"
00:26
36
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - A Sinfony
01:43
37
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes"
01:06
38
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
01:50
39
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh king, live for ever!"
01:40
40
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "No! to thyself thy trifles be"
01:31
41
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Yet, to obey his dread command"
03:13
42
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"
06:56
43
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!"
04:36
44
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"
01:02
45
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh glorious prince!"
04:41
46
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Alternate hopes and fears"
04:28
47
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Fain would I hope"
00:23
48
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"
02:26
49
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "My hopes revive"
01:51
50
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Bel boweth down!"
01:31
51
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "I thank thee, Sesach"
01:38
52
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - A Martial Symphony
00:39
53
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "To pow'r immortal my first thanks"
02:45
54
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"
02:55
55
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Great victor, at your feet I bow"
03:59
56
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Say, venerable prophet"
00:56
57
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Tell it out among the heathen"
01:38
58
Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Yes, I will build thy city"
02:22
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Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "I will magnify thee"
05:27
Handel: Belshazzar
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Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
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