Handel: Tobit

George Frideric Handel: Tobit

Part I: Ouverture

Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite)

Part I Scene 1: Hear us, O Baal (Chorus)

Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd is human joy (Tobit)

Part I Scene 2: O Lord, whom we adore (Tobit) - Hear from thy mercies seat (Chorus)

Part I Scene 3: Recitative: The Lord hath heard my pray'r (Tobias)

Part I Scene 3: Air: Will God, whose mercies ever flow (Tobias)

Part I Scene 3: Recitative: But Say, my Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit)

Part I Scene 3: Duet: To Steal a Grave (Anna, Tobit)

Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias)

Part I Scene 3: Air: Boistrous Winds and Billows rolling (Tobias)

Part I Scene 3: Tyrants may a while presume (Chorus)

Part I Scene 4: Sinfonia

Part I Scene 4: Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah)

Part I Scene 4: Air: Paid be my Adoration (Sarah)

Part I Scene 4: Recitative: Be comforted, my Daughter (Raguel)

Part I Scene 4: Air: The Lord Sends his Thunders (Raguel)

Part I Scene 4: All Pow'r in Heav'n above or Earth beneath (Chorus)

Part II Scene 1: Sinfonia

Part II Scene 1: Accompagnato: Alas! To what Variety of Ills (Tobit)

Part II Scene 1: Air: In great Jehovah (Tobit)

Part II Scene 2: Recitative: Happy in thee, my Son (Tobit)

Part II Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Azarias)

Part II Scene 2: Impartial heav'n (Chorus)

Part II Scene 3: Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt and Misery (A Ninevite)

Part II Scene 3: O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus)

Part II Scene 3: Ritornello

Part II Scene 4: Recitative: Pain'd as I am (Tobit, Anna)

Part II Scene 4: Air: Thy pleasing Face (Anna)

Part II Scene 4: Recitative: O thou bright sun! (Anna)

Part II Scene 4: Air: With darkness Deep, as is my woe (Anna)

Part II Scene 5: Sinfonia

Part II Scene 5: Recitative: What caution is too great (Tobit, Azarias)

Part II Scene 5: Air: Thou, God most high (Azarias)

Part II Scene 5: Duet: Cease thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias)

Part II Scene 5: The Clouded Scene begins to clear (Chorus)

Part II Scene 6: Sinfonia

Part II Scene 6: Recitative: How happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah)

Part II Scene 6: Air: To nobler Joys aspiring (Sarah)

Part II Scene 7: Recitative: O Azarias, I must freely own (Tobias, Azarias)

Part II Scene 8: Recitative: The gratefull Tribute of our thanks (Raguel)

Part II Scene 8: Air: Let Songs of varied measure (Raguel)

Part II Scene 8: Now Love, that everlasting Joy (Chorus)

Part II Scene 8: Happy, happy shall they be (Chorus)

Part III Scene 1: Sinfonia

Part III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Still am I persecuted (Tobit)

Part III Scene 1: Air: Cease your Pride, deluded mortals (Tobit)

Part III Scene 1: Tremble, Guilt, for Thou Shalt find (Chorus)

Part III Scene 2: Sinfonia

Part III Scene 2: Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit)

Part III Scene 2: Accompagnato: Henceforth through all the changing Scenes of Life (Anna)

Part III Scene 2: Air: My Son, how happy in this thy Sweet Return (Anna)

Part III Scene 2: Let none Despair (Chorus)

Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato and Recitative: Blest be the God of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel)

Part III Scene 3: Air: May true Joy (Raguel)

Part III Scene 3: Terzetto: More chearfull appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah)

Part III Scene 3: Air: Watchful angels (Sarah)

Part III Scene 3: Recitative: O King of Kings (Sarah)

Part III Scene 3: Air: Allelujah (Sarah)

Part III Scene 3: Swift our numbers (Chorus)

Part III Scene 3: Recitative: 'Tis well (Raphael)

Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato: O Nineveh! (Raphael)

Part III Scene 3: Air: In Jehovah's awful sight (Raphael)

Part III Scene 3: Symphony

Part III Scene 3: Recitative: Saw ye the radiant Streams of Light (Tobit)

Part III Scene 3: Ye servants of th'eternal King (Soloists, Chorus)