1 Belshazzar, HWV 61: Overture
2 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative and Air. "Vain, fluctuating state" (Nitocris)
3 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Thou, God most high" (Nitocris)
4 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "The fate of Babylon" - Recitative. "Oh much belov'd" (Nitocris, Daniel)
5 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Lament not thus" (Daniel)
6 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Chorus)
7 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "Well may they laugh" - Accompagnato. "Oh memory!" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
8 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
9 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Dry those anavailing tears" (Cyrus)
10 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "Be comforted" - Accompagnato. "Methought, as on the bank" - Recitative. "Now tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
11 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
12 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "Can you then think" - Air. "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" - Recitative. "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)
13 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "All empires" (Chorus)
14 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Oh sacred oracles" (Daniel)
15 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Accompagnato. "Rejoice, my countrymen" - Recitative. "For long ago" - Accompagnato. "Thus saith the Lord" (Daniel)
16 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" (Chorus)
17 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "Let festal joy" (Belshazzar)
18 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
19 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Air. "The leafy honours" (Nitocris)
20 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "It is the custom" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
21 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "Recall, oh king!" (Chorus)
22 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Recitative. "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
23 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Duet. "Oh dearer than my life" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
24 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 1: Chorus. "By slow degrees" (Chorus)
25 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "See from his post" (Chorus)
26 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Recitative. "You see, my friends" - Air. "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
27 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "To arms, to arms!" (Chorus)
28 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "Ye tutelar gods" (Chorus)
29 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "Let the deep bowl" - Accompagnato. "Where is the God" - Chorus. "Help, help the king!" - Recitative. "Call all my wise men" (Chorus, Belshazzar)
30 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: A Symphony - Recitative. "Ye sages!" - Trio. "Alas! too hard a task" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
31 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "Oh misery!" (Chorus)
32 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Recitative. "Oh king" - Recitative. "Art thou that Daniel" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
33 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "No! to thyself" - Accompanato. "Yet to obey" - Accompagnato. "Though, o king" - "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris, Daniel)
34 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "Regard, oh son" (Nitocris)
35 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Air. "Oh God of Truth!" - Recitative. "You, Gobrias" (Cyrus)
36 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 2: Chorus. "Oh glorious prince!" (Chorus)
37 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Air. "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris)
38 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "Fain would I hope" - Air. "Can the black Aethiop" (Nitocris, Daniel)
39 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
40 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Chorus. "Bel boweth down" (Chorus)
41 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Air. "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar) - A Marital Symphony
42 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Air. "To pow'r immortal" (Gobrias)
43 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "Be it thy care" - Air. "Destructive War" (Cyrus)
44 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Duet. "Great Victor" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
45 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Recitative. "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel)
46 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Soli and Chorus. "Tell it out" - Accompagnato. "Yes, I will build the city" (Cyrus, Chorus)
47 Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act 3: Soli and Chorus. "I will magnify thee" (Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger)
48 Jephtha, HWV 70: Overture - Menuet
49 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Accompagnato. "It must be so" - Air. "Pour forth no more" (Zebul)
50 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "No more to Ammon's god and king" (Israelites)
51 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "But Jephtha comes" - Air. "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (Zebul, Jephtha)
52 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "'Twill be a painful separation" - Air. "In gentle murmurs" (Storgè)
53 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Happy this embassy" - Air. "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Hamor)
54 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Ill suits the voice of love" - Air. "Take the heart" (Iphis)
55 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "I go; my soul" - Duet. "These labours past" (Hamor, Iphis)
56 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "What mean these doubtful fancies" - Accompagnato. "If, Lord, susain'd" - Recitative. "'Tis said" (Jephtha)
57 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "O God, behold our sore distress" (Israelites)
58 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Some dire event hangs" - Air. "Scenes of horror" (Storgè)
59 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Say, my dear mother" - Air. "The smiling dawn of happy days" (Iphis, Storgè)
60 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Recitative. "Such, Jeptha, was the haughty King's reply" (Zebul, Jephtha)
61 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: Chorus. "When loud his voice in thunder spoke" (Israelites)
62 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Glad tidings of great joy, dea Iphis" (Hamor)
63 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Chorus. "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" (Israelites)
64 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Air. "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Hamor)
65 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "'Tis well" - Air. "Tune the soft melodious lute" (Iphis)
66 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" - Air. "Freedom now once more" (Zebul)
67 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" - Air. "His mighty arm" (Jephtha)
68 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Chorus. "In glory high, in might serene" (Israelites)
69 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Symphony
70 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Hail, glorious conqueror!" - Air and Chorus. "Welcome as the cheerful light" (Iphis, Virgins)
71 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Horror! confusion!" - Air. "Open thy marble jaws" (Jephtha)
72 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Why is my brother thus afflicted?" (Zebul, Jephtha)
73 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Accompagnato and Air. "First perish thou, and perish all the world!" (Storgè)
74 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "If such thy cruel purpose" - Air. "On me let blind mistaken zeal" (Hamor)
75 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Quartet. "O spare your daughter" (Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul)
76 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Recitative. "Such news fly swift" (Iphis)
77 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Accompagnato. "Deeper and deeper still" (Jephtha)
78 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 2: Chorus. "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" (Israelites)
79 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "Hide thou thy hated beams - Accompagnato. "A father, offering up" - Air. "Waft her, angels" (Jephtha)
80 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Accompagnato. "Ye sacred priests" - Air. "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (Iphis)
81 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" (Priests)
82 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "And they determin'd will declare" (Priests) - Symphony
83 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" - Air. "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" (Angel)
84 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Air. "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Jephtha)
85 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "Theme sublime of endless praise" (Priests)
86 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "Let me congratulate this happy turn" - Air. "Laud her, all ye virgin train" (Zebul)
87 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" - Air. "Sweet as sight to the blind" (Storgè)
88 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "With transport, Iphis" - Air. "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" (Hamor)
89 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Recitative. "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" - Air. "Freely I to Heaven resign" - Quintet. "All that is in Hamor" (Iphis, Hamor, Storgè, Zebul, Jephtha)
90 Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 3: Chorus. "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" (Israelites)
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