Handel - Belshazzar Lyrics

Disc 1

1. Overture
2. Act 1. Scene 1. Accompagnato ed Arioso. Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!
3. Act 1. Scene 1. Air. Thou, God most high, and Thou alone
4. Act 1. Scene 1. Recitativo. The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh
5. Act 1. Scene 1. Air. Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!
6. Act 1. Scene 2. Chorus. Behold, by Persia's hero made
7. Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Well may they laugh / Accompagnato. Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!
8. Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Opprest with never-ceasing grief
9. Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Dry those unavailing tears
10. Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem / Accompagnato. Methought, as
11. Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Now, tell me, Gobrias
12. Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Behold the monstrous human beast
13. Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. Can you then think it strange
14. Act 1. Scene 2. Air. Great God! who, yet but darkly known
15. Act 1. Scene 2. Recitativo. My friends, be confident
16. Act 1. Scene 2. Chorus. All empires upon God depend
17. Act 1. Scene 3. Air. Oh sacred oracle of Truth!
18. Act 1. Scene 3. Accompagnato. Rejoice, my countrymen / Air. Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus
19. Act 1. Scene 3. Chorus. Sing, oh ye heav'ns!

Disc 2

1. Act 1. Scene 4. Air. Let festal joy triumphant reign!
2. Act 1. Scene 4. Recitativo. For you, my friends
3. Act 1. Scene 4. Air. The leafy honours of the field
4. Act 1. Scene 4. Recitativo. It is the custom, I may say, the law
5. Act 1. Scene 4. Chorus. Recall, oh king! thy rash command
6. Act 1. Scene 4. Recitativo. They tell you true
7. Act 1. Scene 4. Duet. Oh dearer than my life, forebear!
8. Act 1. Scene 4. Chorus. By slow degrees the wrath of God
9. Act 2. Scene 1. Chorus. See, from his post Euphrates flies!
10. Act 2. Scene 1. Recitativo. You see, my friends, a path
11. Act 2. Scene 1. Air. Amaz'd to find the foe so near
12. Act 2. Scene 1. Chorus. To arms, to arms! no more delay!
13. Act 2. Scene 2. Chorus. Ye tutelar gods of our empire
14. Act 2. Scene 2. Air. Let the deep bowl thy praise confess
15. Act 2. Scene 2. Accompagnato. Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?
16. Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Call all my Wise Men

Disc 3

1. Act 2. Scene 2. A Sinfony
2. Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Ye sages! welcome always to your king / Alas! too hard a task the king
3. Act 2. Scene 2. Chorus. Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!
4. Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Oh king, live for ever!
5. Act 2. Scene 2. Air. No! to thyself thy trifles be
6. Act 2. Scene 2. Accompagnato. Yet, to obey his dread command
7. Act 2. Scene 2. Recitativo. Oh sentence too severe! / Air. Regard, oh son, my flowing tears
8. Act 2. Scene 3. Air. Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!
9. Act 2. Scene 3. Recitativo. You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace
10. Act 2. Scene 3. Chorus. Oh glorious prince!
11. Act 3. Scene 1. Air. Alternate hopes and fears
12. Act 3. Scene 1. Recitativo. Fain would I hope
13. Act 3. Scene 1. Air. Can the black Aethiop change his skin?
14. Act 3. Scene 1. Recitativo. My hopes revive
15. Act 3. Scene 1. Chorus. Bel boweth down!
16. Act 3. Scene 2. Air. I thank thee, Sesach
17. Act 3. Scene 2. A Martial Symphony
18. Act 3. Scene 3. Air. To pow'r immortal my first thanks
19. Act 3. Scene 3. Recitativo. Be it thy care, good Gobrias / Air. Destructive War, thy limits know
20. Act 3. Scene 3. Duet. Great victor, at your feet I bow
21. Act 3. Scene 3. Recitativo. Say, venerable prophet
22. Act 3. Scene 3. Soli & Chorus. Tell it out among the heathen
23. Act 3. Scene 3. Accompagnato. Yes, I will build thy city
24. Act 3. Scene 3. Soli & Chorus. I will magnify thee

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