Handel: Belshazzar

Box Set

Tracklist

• 1: Overture
• 2: Vain Fluctuating State of Human Empire!
• 3: Thou, God Most High, and Thou Alone
• 4: The Fate of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh - O Much Belov'd
• 5: Lament Not Thus, O Queen, in Vain!
• 6: Behold By Persia's Hero Made
• 7: Well May They Laugh, from Meagre Famine Safe - Oh Memory
• 8: Opprest With Never Ceasing Grief
• 9: Dry Those Unavailing Tears
• 10: Be Comforted Safe Tho' the Tyrant Seem - Methought As On the Bank of Deep Euphrates...
• 11: Behold the Monstrous Human Beast - Can You Then Think It Strange If Drown'd in Wine
• 12: Great God Who Yet But Darkly Known - My Friends Be Confident and Boldly Enter
• 13: All Empires Upon God Depend
• 14: O Sacred Oracles of Truth!
• 15: Rejoice, My Countrymen the Time Draws Near - For Long Ago - Thus Saith the Lord to Cyrus His...
• 16: Sing, O Ye Heav'ns, for the Lord Hath Done It
• Disc 2 / 1: Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign - For You, My Friends, the Nobles of My Court
• Disc 2 / 2: The Leafy Honours of the Field
• Disc 2 / 3: It Is the Custom, I May Say, the Law
• Disc 2 / 4: Recall, O King, Thy Rash Command
• Disc 2 / 5: They Tell You True, Nor Can You Be to Learn
• Disc 2 / 6: O Dearer Than My Life, Forbear
• Disc 2 / 7: By Slow Degrees the Wrath of God to Its Meridian Height Ascends
• Disc 2 / 8: See from His Post Euphrates Flies - Why Faithless River Dost Thou Leave - Euphrates Hath His...
• Disc 2 / 9: You See My Friends a Path Into the City - Amaz'd to Find the Foe So Near - To Arms to Arms
• Disc 2 / 10: Ye Tutelar Gods of Our Empire, Look Down
• Disc 2 / 11: Let the Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess
• Disc 2 / 12: Where Is the God of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?
• Disc 2 / 13: Call All Our Wisemen, Sorcerers, Chaldeans - Symphony
• Disc 2 / 14: Ye Sages Welcome Always to Your King - Alas! Too Hard a Task the King Imposes - O Misery O Terror Hopeless