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Saul Quirke, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 14. Recitative: There were shepherds - Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord - Recitative: And the angel said unto them - Accompagnato: And suddenly

Saul Quirke, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & George Frideric Handel

Handel Collection - John Eliot Gardiner

1 MINUTE AND 20 SECONDS

Album tracklist

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Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333 - 1. Pomposo
01:45
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Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333 - 2. Allegro
01:54
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Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333 - 3. A tempo giusto
02:39
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Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333 - 4. Largo
02:01
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Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334 - 1. Ouverture
01:30
6
Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334 - 2. Allegro - Allegro ma non troppo
05:35
7
Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334 - 3. Adagio
01:11
8
Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334 - 4. Andante larghetto
03:22
9
Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334 - 5. Allegro
01:56
10
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 1. Ouverture (Grave - Allegro)
03:14
11
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 2. Adagio e staccato
01:58
12
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 3a. Allegro
02:27
13
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 3b. Andante
02:23
14
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 3c. without indication (da capo)
02:31
15
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 5. Presto
02:29
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 5. Air
02:51
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 6. Menuet
02:11
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - 8/9. Bourrée - Hornpipe
02:19
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 - without indication (da capo)
03:29
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 - 11. Allegro
02:00
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 - 12. Alla hornpipe
04:01
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 - 13. Minuet
00:55
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 - 14. Lentement
01:35
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349 - 15. Bourrée
01:20
25
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350 - 16. (Without Indication)
02:37
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350 - 17. Rigaudon - 18. without indication
03:13
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350 - 19. Menuet - 20. without indication
03:13
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Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350 - 21. without indication - 22. without indication
01:11
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Handel: Water Music; Appendix - 2. without indication (Variant in F, HWV 331/1)
04:02
30
Handel: Water Music; Appendix - 12. Alla Hornpipe (Variant in F, HWV 331/2)
03:27
31
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: Suite HWV 351 - 2. Bourrée
01:02
32
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: Suite HWV 351 - 4. La réjouissance
02:05
33
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks: Suite HWV 351 - 5. Menuet I-II
02:03
34
Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Gloria in excelsis Deo
02:33
35
Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Et in terra pax
03:09
36
Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Laudamus te...gratius agimus
02:18
37
Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Domine Deus
01:25
38
Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Qui tollis peccata mundi
03:53
39
Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo - Quoniam...cum Sancto Spiritu
03:17
40
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - Symphony
02:54
41
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 1. Accompagnato: Comfort ye, My people
02:23
42
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 2. Air: Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted
03:11
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 3. Chorus: And the glory of the Lord
02:40
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 4. Accompagnato: Thus saith the Lord
01:19
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 5. Air: But who may abide the day of his coming
04:19
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 6. Chorus: And He shall purify the sons of Levi
02:18
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 7. Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive
00:28
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 8. Air - 9. Chorus: O thou that tellest good tidings
05:35
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 10. Accompagnato: For behold, darkness shall cover
01:46
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 11. Air: The people that walked in darkness
03:50
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 12. Chorus: For unto us a Child is born
04:02
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 13. Pifa (Pastoral Symphony)
02:26
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 14. Recitative: There were shepherds - Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord - Recitative: And the angel said unto them - Accompagnato: And suddenly
01:20
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 15. Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
01:43
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 16. Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion
04:12
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 17a. Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind
00:21
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 18a. Duet: He shall feed his flock
04:28
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 19. Chorus: His yoke is easy
02:00
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 20. Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
02:39
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 22. Chorus: Surely He hath borne our griefs
02:08
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 23. Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed
01:52
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 24. Chorus: All we like sheep have gone astray
04:11
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 25. Accompagnato: All they that see Him
00:47
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 26. Chorus: He trusted in God
02:16
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 27. Accompagnato: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
01:31
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 28. Arioso: Behold and see
01:33
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 30. Aria: But thou didst not leave
02:07
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 31. Chorus: Lift up your heads
02:57
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 33. Chorus: Let all the angels of God
01:26
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 34a. Air: Thou art gone up on high
03:16
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 35. Chorus: The Lord gave the word
01:09
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 36. Air: How beautiful are the feet
02:16
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 37a. Chorus: Their sound is gone out
01:15
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 38. Air: Why do the nations
02:34
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 39. Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
01:35
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 41. Air: Thou shalt break them
01:59
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2 - 44. Hallelujah
03:49
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 3 - 44. Chorus: Since by man came death
01:59
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 3 - 48. Duet: O death where is thy sting?
01:20
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 3 - 49. Chorus: But thanks be to God
02:47
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 3 - 50. Air: If God be for us
05:05
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 - Overture
06:59
83
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"
05:50
84
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"
01:32
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"
05:54
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"
04:56
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"
01:39
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"
01:30
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."
03:27
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"
02:55
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"
03:39
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"
04:12
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"
00:58
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - March
01:39
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"
02:04
96
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"
06:12
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"
03:43
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1 - Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"
02:38
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"
03:21
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"
04:12
101
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"
01:22
102
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"
06:03
103
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"
00:25
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "She knows my passion"
01:21
105
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "From celestial seats descending"
06:05
106
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"
01:54
107
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"
05:52
108
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"
06:18
109
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"
01:34
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"
03:27
111
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"
02:30
112
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"
03:06
113
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2 - Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"
04:44
114
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Sinfonia
02:46
115
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"
01:36
116
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"
02:53
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"
02:56
118
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"
02:25
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"
02:15
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Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"
02:16
121
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"
05:52
122
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"
01:35
123
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"
07:37
124
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"
02:03
125
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Words are too faint"
01:07
126
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"
02:16
127
Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3 - Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"
03:11
128
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 - Overture
05:09
129
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Your harps and cymbals"
03:18
130
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Praise ye the Lord"
04:46
131
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "With pious heart"
04:40
132
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Almighty Power"
02:58
133
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Imperial Solomon" - "Sacred rapture"
04:49
134
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Throughout the land"
03:30
135
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Bless'd be the Lord" - "What though I trace"
07:00
136
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "And see my Queen"
00:45
137
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Bless'd the day"
04:45
138
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "Thou fair inhabitant" - "Welcome as the dawn of day"
03:58
139
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "My blooming fair" - "Haste, haste"
03:22
140
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "When thou art absent" - "With thee th'unshelter"
02:21
141
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1 - "May no rash intruder"
03:19
142
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "From the censer"
05:10
143
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Prais'd be the Lord" - "When the sun"
05:10
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Great prince" - "Thrice bless'd"
03:41
145
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "My sovereign liege"
01:53
146
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Thou son of David " - "Words are weak"
05:36
147
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "What says the other" - "Thy sentence, great king"
03:28
148
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Withhold the executing hand" - "Can I see my infant gor'd"
04:23
149
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Israel' attend"
01:19
150
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Thrice bless'd be the king"
03:58
151
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "From the east unto the west"
02:29
152
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "No more shall armed bands" - "Beneath the vine"
06:24
153
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2 - "Swell, swell the full chorus"
02:43
154
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
02:59
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "From Arabia's spicy shores"
01:25
156
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Sweep, sweep the string" - "Music, spread thy voice"
03:35
157
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Now a diff'rent measure" - "Shake the dome"
01:47
158
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Then at once from rage" - "Draw the tear"
03:20
159
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Next the tortur'd soul" - "Thus rolling surges rises"
03:40
160
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Thy harmony's divine"
00:59
161
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Thrice happy king" - "Golden columns"
03:58
162
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "May peace in Salem ever dwell" - "Will the sun for- get to streak"
05:54
163
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Adieu, fair queen" - "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows"
03:01
164
Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3 - "Praise the Lord"
04:38
165
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - Overture (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
06:12
166
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "T'was at the royal feast" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:50
167
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
04:45
168
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "Timotheus placed on high" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:19
169
Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV.75 / Part 1 - "The song began from Jove" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:49
170
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
02:16
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "With ravish'd ears" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:25
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "The praise of Bacchus then" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:29
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
04:40
174
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:34
175
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "He chose a mournful Muse" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
01:20
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "He sung Darius, great and good" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:02
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:53
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "Behold Darius great and good" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:06
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "The mighty master smiled to see" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:28
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:00
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
05:20
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:56
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
06:06
184
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1 - "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Reprise - Live in Göttingen / 1987)
04:03
185
Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast" - 1. Allegro (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:31
186
Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast" - 2. Largo - Adagio (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
01:51
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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast" - 3. Allegro - Adagio (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:25
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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast" - 4. Andante non presto (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
04:06
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Now strike the golden lyre again...Break his bond...Hark, hark! The horrid sound" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
02:21
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries...Behold, a ghastly band" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
05:06
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Give the vengeance due" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
01:46
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
02:07
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Thaïs led the way...The princes applaud" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
05:27
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Thus, long ago" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
02:47
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "At last divine Cecilia came" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
03:08
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:32
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Let's imitate her notes above!" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
02:28
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
00:20
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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2 - "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)
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Handel Collection - John Eliot Gardiner
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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1 - 14. Recitative: There were shepherds - Accompagnato: And lo, the angel of the Lord - Recitative: And the angel said unto them - Accompagnato: And suddenly
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