Handel: Belshazzar

Markus Brutscher (tenor), Simone Kermes (soprano), Christopher Robson (counter-tenor), Patrick van Goethem (counter-tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (bass)

Collegium Cartusianum, Kölner Kammerchor, Peter Neumann

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Label: MDG
Series: Gold
Catalogue number: MDG3321079
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Genre:
- Oratorios & Passions

Contents and tracklist

Handel: Belshazzar

Work length2:43:03

Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann, Simone Kermes, Cologne Chamber Choir, Christopher Robson, Franz-Josef Selig, Patrick van Goethem, Markus Brutscher, Frank Höndgen

Overture

Track length4:13

Act One "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!"

Track length4:47

Act One "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"

Track length4:37

Act One "Behold, by Persia's hero made"

Track length2:40

Act One "Well may they laugh"

Track length1:37

Act One "Oprress'd with never-ceasing grief"

Track length3:36

Act One "Dry those unavailing tears"

Track length2:02

Act One "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant"

Track length4:13

Act One "Behold the monstruous human beast"

Track length3:38

Act One "Can you then think it strange"

Track length0:16

Act One "Great God!"

Track length3:47

Act One "My friends, be confident"

Track length0:52

Act One "All empires upon God depend"

Track length3:15

Act One "Oh, sacred oracles of Truth!"

Track length8:23

Act One "Sing, oh ye Heav'ns!"

Track length3:56

Act One "Let festal joy triumphant reign!"

Track length4:49

Act One "For you, my friends, the nobles of my court"

Track length1:02

Act One "The leafy honours of the field"

Track length8:02

Act One "It is the custom, I may say, the law"

Track length1:35

Act One "Recall, oh king! Thy rash command"

Track length3:09

Act One "They tell you true"

Track length1:42

Act One "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!"

Track length6:30

Act One "By slow degrees the wrath of God"

Track length4:51

Act Two "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"

Track length7:02

Act Two "You see my friends"

Track length0:47

Act Two "Amaz'd to find the foe so near"

Track length4:28

Act Two "To arms, to arms!"

Track length0:31

Act Two "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"

Track length2:57

Act Two "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"

Track length2:28

Act Two "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"

Track length2:30

Act Two "Call all my Wise Men"

Track length0:24

Act Two Sinfonia

Track length1:37

Act Two "Ye sages! Welcome always to your king"

Track length1:03

Act Two "Oh misery! - oh terror!"

Track length1:34

Act Two "Oh king, live for ever!"

Track length1:50

Act Two "No! To thyself thy trifles be"

Track length1:38

Act Two "Yet to obey"

Track length2:09

Act Two "Oh sentence too severe!"

Track length0:27

Act Two "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"

Track length6:31

Act Two "Oh God of truth, oh faithful guide"

Track length4:27

Act Two "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"

Track length1:09

Act Two "Oh glorious prince! Thrice happy"

Track length4:48

Act Three "Alternate hopes and fears distract my mind"

Track length4:26

Act Three "Fain would I hope"

Track length0:23

Act Three "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"

Track length2:22

Act Three "My hopes revive"

Track length1:01

Act Three "Bel boweth down! Nebo stoopeth!"

Track length1:28

Act Three "I thank thee, Sesach: thy sweet pow'r"

Track length1:32

Act Three Martial Symphony

Track length0:34

Act Three "To pow'r immortal my first thanks are due"

Track length2:06

Act Three "Be it thy care, good Gobrias"

Track length0:23

Act Three "Destructive War, thy limits know"

Track length2:50

Act Three "Great victor, at your feet I bow"

Track length4:29

Act Three "Say, venerable prophet"

Track length0:52

Act Three "Tell it out among the heathen"

Track length1:39

Act Three "Yes, I will build thy city, God of Israel!"

Track length1:38

Act Three "I will magnify Thee, oh god, my king!"

Track length5:28

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