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Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar and Jephtha

Felicity Palmer, Maureen Lehane, Robert Tear, Paul Esswood, Peter van der Bilt & Thomas Sunnegårdh, Werner Hollweg, Thomas Thomaschke, Glenys Linos, Elizabeth Gale, Paul Esswood & Gabriele Sima

Stockholmer Kammerchor & Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus...

The particular strength of the Teldec reissue is its splendid cast, all of whom are technically outstanding, invest their every word with meaning and make recitatives fully alive. The titlerole... — Gramophone Magazine More…
  • Release Date: 15th Sep 2008
  • Catalogue No: 2564696116
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Handel Edition
  • Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Belshazzar

Work length2:52:39
$61.10
$79.90
  • Maureen Lehane (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Felicity Palmer (soprano), Paul Esswood (countertenor), Peter van der Bilt (bass), Staffan Sandlund (bass), Thomas Sunnegårdh (tenor)
  • Stockholm Chamber Choir, Concentus musicus Wien
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Overture to Act 1

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Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris]

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Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris]

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Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel]

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Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel]

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Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias]

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Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias]

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Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus]

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Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]

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Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias]

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Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus]

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Act 1 "All empires" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Oh sacred oracles" [Daniel]

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Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel]

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Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar]

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Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]

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Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris]

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Act 1 "It is the custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]

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Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]

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Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]

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Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus]

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Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus]

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Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Let the deep bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where is the God" [Chorus] "Help, help the king!" [Chorus, Belshazzar] "Call all my wise men" [Belshazzar]

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Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar]

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Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris]

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Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris]

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Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus]

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Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "Oh glorious prince!" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris]

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Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel]

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Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger]

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Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony

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Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias]

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Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus]

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Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus]

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Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel]

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Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus]

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Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger]

Track length5:34
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Handel: Jephtha

Work length2:55:25
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  • Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Gabriele Sima (soprano), Thomas Thomaschke (bass), Glenys Linos (soprano), Paul Esswood (countertenor), Werner Hollweg (tenor)
  • Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Mozart Sängerknaben
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Erwin Ortner

Overture - Menuet

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Act 1 "It must be so - or these vile Ammonites" "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" [Zebul]

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Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha]

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Act 1 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" [Storgè]

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Act 1 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" [Hamor]

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Act 1 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" "Take the heart you fondly gave" [Iphis]

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Act 1 "I go; my soul, inspir'd by thy command" [Hamor] "These labours past, how happy we!" [Iphis]

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Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha]

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Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" [Storgè]

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Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis]

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Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha]

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Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" [Hamor]

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Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "Up the dreadful steep ascending" [Hamor]

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Act 2 "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" "Tune the soft melodious lute" [Iphis]

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Act 2 "Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" "Freedom now once more possessing" [Zebul]

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Act 2 "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" [Jephtha]

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Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus]

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Act 2 Symphony

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Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus]

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Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha]

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Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha]

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Act 2 "First perish thou, and perish all the world!... Let other creatures die" [Storgè]

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Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor]

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Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha]

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Act 2 "Such news fly swift" "Happy they! this vital breath" [Iphis]

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Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha]

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Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" "A father, offering up" "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Jephtha]

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Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis]

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Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus]

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Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel]

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Act 3 "For ever blessed be thy holy name" [Jephtha]

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Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul]

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Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè]

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Act 3 "With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety" "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" [Hamor]

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Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis]

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Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus]

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