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Belshazzar HWV 61

Eric Ericson, Concentus Musicus Wien, Stockholms Kammarkör, Felicity Palmer (Soprano), Maureen Lehane (Mezzo-soprano), Paul Esswood (Countertenor), Peter van der Bilt (Bass), Robert Tear (Tenor), Staffan Sandlund (Bass), Thomas Sunnegårdh (Tenor)
℗ 1979
    • Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1
      04:31
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris]
      05:06
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris]
      04:06
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel]
      01:19
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel]
      04:49
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus]
      02:57
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias]
      01:29
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias]
      03:10
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus]
      02:37
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]
      04:08
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias]
      03:16
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus]
      04:50
    • Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "All empires" [Chorus]
      03:39
    • Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "Oh sacred oracles" [Daniel]
      05:22
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel]
      03:08
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus]
      04:35
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar]
      04:57
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]
      01:02
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris]
      08:18
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "It is the custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]
      01:55
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus]
      03:00
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]
      01:36
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]
      06:43
    • Belshazzar : Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus]
      04:38
    • Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus]
      06:31
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus]
      05:26
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus]
      00:30
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus]
      02:56
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Let the deep bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where is the God" [Chorus] "Help, help the king!" [Chorus, Belshazzar] "Call all my wise men" [Belshazzar]
      05:46
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus]
      02:42
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus]
      01:33
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar]
      01:44
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris]
      04:41
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris]
      06:24
    • Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus]
      05:29
    • Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "Oh glorious prince!" [Chorus]
      04:46
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris]
      04:32
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel]
      02:20
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger]
      02:15
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus]
      01:35
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony
      02:14
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias]
      02:21
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus]
      03:03
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus]
      05:16
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel]
      00:49
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus]
      03:32
    • Belshazzar : Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger]
      05:34

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