Duration172 Min

Handel: Belshazzar

Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert

Duration172 Min

George Frideric Handel

Belshazzar, HWV 61

Overture
1
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
04:38

George Frideric Handel

Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1

"Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"
2
Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
05:06
"Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"
3
Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
04:00
"The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"
4
Arleen Augér, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
01:15
"Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"
5
James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
04:55
"Behold, by Persia's hero made"
6
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
02:49
"Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"
7
David Wilson-Johnson, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
01:19
"Opprest with never-ceasing grief"
8
David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
03:33
"Dry those unavailing tears"
9
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
02:13
"Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"
10
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
02:35
"Now, tell me, Gobrias"
11
Catherine Robbin, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
01:14
"Behold the monstrous human beast"
12
David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
03:16
"Can you then think it strange"
13
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
00:16
"Great God! who, yet but darkly known"
14
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
03:49
"My friends, be confident"
15
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
00:41
"All empires upon God depend"
16
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
03:15
"Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"
17
James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
05:14
"Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"
18
James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
03:00
"Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
19
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
04:11

George Frideric Handel

Belshazzar / Act 1

George Frideric Handel

Belshazzar / Act 2

George Frideric Handel

Belshazzar / Act 3

"Alternate hopes and fears"
46
Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
04:28
"Fain would I hope"
47
Arleen Augér, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
00:23
"Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"
48
James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
02:26
"My hopes revive"
49
Arleen Augér, Nicolas Robertson, Richard Wistreich, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
01:51
"Bel boweth down!"
50
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
01:31
"I thank thee, Sesach"
51
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
01:38
A Martial Symphony
52
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
00:39
"To pow'r immortal my first thanks"
53
David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
02:45
"Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"
54
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
02:55
"Great victor, at your feet I bow"
55
Arleen Augér, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
03:59
"Say, venerable prophet"
56
Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
00:56
"Tell it out among the heathen"
57
Julia Gooding, Nigel Short, Nicolas Robertson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
01:38
"Yes, I will build thy city"
58
Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
02:22
"I will magnify thee"
59
Arleen Augér, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
05:28

Artists

Trevor Pinnock

Conductor, Harpsichord

The English Concert

Orchestra

Composers

George Frideric Handel

Composer

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