John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Oratorios

John Eliot Gardiner

182 SONGS • 9 HOURS AND 16 MINUTES • JAN 01 2005

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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Go on, illustrious pair!...While yet thy tide of blood runs high" (Live)
02:32
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Thou, Merab, first in birth... My soul rejects the thought...See, see with what a scornful air... Ah! lovely youth!" (Live)
03:22
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: Symphony..."Already see the daughters...Welcome, welcome mighty King!" (Live)
02:47
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "What do I hear?... David his ten thousands slew...To him ten thousands!" (Live)
01:09
94
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!" (Live)
01:21
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Imprudent women!" (Live)
00:40
96
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Fell rage and black despair possessed" (Live)
02:35
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "This but the smallest part of harmony...By thee this universal frame" (Live)
02:36
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Rack'd with infernal pains" (Live)
00:13
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "O Lord, whose mercies"...Symphony (Live)
05:09
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "'Tis all in vain...A serpent in my bosom warm'd...Has he escaped my rage?" (Live)
02:18
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Capricious man" (Live)
03:37
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "O filial piety!" (Live)
01:23
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "No, no cruel father, no!" (Live)
01:34
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence" (Live)
01:36
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: "Preserve him for the glory of thy name" (Live)
02:51
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Envy! Eldestborn of hell! (Live)
02:49
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Ah! dearest friend" (Live)
00:33
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" (Live)
02:08
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "O strange vicissitude!" (Live)
00:47
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Such haughty beauties" (Live)
04:17
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "My father comes...Hast thou obey'd my orders" (Live)
00:45
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Sin not, o King, against the youth" (Live)
02:10
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "As great Jehovah lives" (Live)
01:18
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "From cities storm'd, and battles won" (Live)
02:13
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Appear, my friend" (Live)
00:31
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Your words, O King...Yes he shall wed my daughter!" (Live)
01:25
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "A Father's will" (Live)
00:28
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "O fairest of ten thousand fair... Is there a man" (Live)
04:06
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: Symphony (Live)
04:07
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Thy father is as cruel" (Live)
00:34
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "At persecution I can laugh" (Live)
01:15
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Whom dost thou seek?" (Live)
00:30
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "No, no, let the guilty tremble" (Live)
01:27
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Mean as he was" (Live)
00:49
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "Author of peace" (Live)
03:11
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: Symphony (Reprise) (Live)
01:14
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "The time at length is come...Where is the son of Jesse" (Live)
01:33
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: "O fatal consequence of rage" (Live)
05:37
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Wretch that I am...'Tis said, here lives a woman...With me what would'st thou?" (Live)
03:46
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Infernal Spirits" (Live)
02:13
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace" (Live)
03:03
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: Symphony (Live)
00:36
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Whence comest thou?...Impious wretch, of race accurst" (Live)
02:39
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: March (Live)
03:06
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Mourn Israel" (Live)
03:25
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "O let it not in Gath be heard" (Live)
02:07
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "From this unhappy day" (Live)
02:53
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew" (Live)
02:24
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Eagles were not so swift as they" (Live)
00:21
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "In sweetest harmony" (Live)
04:28
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "O fatal Day" (Live)
04:40
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Ye men of Judah, weep no more" (Live)
00:28
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: "Gird on thy sword" (Live)
05:17
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67: Overture
05:09
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Your harps and cymbals"
03:18
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Praise ye the Lord"
04:46
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "With pious heart"
04:40
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Almighty Power"
02:58
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Imperial Solomon" - "Sacred rapture"
04:49
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Throughout the land"
03:30
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Bless'd be the Lord" - "What though I trace"
07:00
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "And see my Queen"
00:45
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Bless'd the day"
04:45
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Thou fair inhabitant" - "Welcome as the dawn of day"
03:58
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "My blooming fair" - "Haste, haste"
03:22
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "When thou art absent" - "With thee th'unshelter"
02:21
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "May no rash intruder"
03:16
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From the censer"
05:10
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Prais'd be the Lord" - "When the sun"
05:10
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Great prince" - "Thrice bless'd"
03:41
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "My sovereign liege"
01:53
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thou son of David " - "Words are weak"
05:36
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "What says the other" - "Thy sentence, great king"
03:28
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Withhold the executing hand" - "Can I see my infant gor'd"
04:23
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Israel' attend"
01:19
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thrice bless'd be the king"
03:58
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From the east unto the west"
02:29
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "No more shall armed bands" - "Beneath the vine"
06:24
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Swell, swell the full chorus"
02:43
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
03:01
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "From Arabia's spicy shores"
01:25
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Sweep, sweep the string" - "Music, spread thy voice"
03:35
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Now a diff'rent measure" - "Shake the dome"
01:47
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Then at once from rage" - "Draw the tear"
03:20
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Next the tortur'd soul" - "Thus rolling surges rises"
03:40
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thy harmony's divine"
00:59
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thrice happy king" - "Golden columns"
03:58
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "May peace in Salem ever dwell" - "Will the sun for- get to streak"
05:54
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Adieu, fair queen" - "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows"
03:01
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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Praise the Lord"
04:39
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