‎Handel Edition, Vol. 6: Belshazzar & Jephtha by Nikolaus Harnoncourt — Apple Music Classical

Overture to Act 1

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:31

Act 1 "Vain, Fluctuating State" [Nitocris]

George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Felicity Palmer, Concentus Musicus Wien

5:05

Act 1 "Thou, God Most High" [Nitocris]

George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Felicity Palmer

4:06

Act 1 "The Fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh Much Belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Felicity Palmer, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

1:19

Act 1 "Lament Not Thus" [Daniel]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien

4:49

Act 1 "Behold, By Persia's Hero Made" [Chorus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Stockholm Kammerkören

2:56

Act 1 "Well May They Laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh Memory!" [Gobrias]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Peter van der Bilt, Maureen Lehane

1:29

Act 1 "Oppress'd With Never-ceasing Grief" [Gobrias]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Peter van der Bilt

3:09

Act 1 "Dry Those Anavailing Tears" [Cyrus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Maureen Lehane

2:37

Act 1 "Be Comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, As On the Bank" [Cyrus] "Now Tell Me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Peter van der Bilt, Maureen Lehane

4:07

Act 1 "Behold the Monstrous Human Beast" [Gobrias]

George Frideric Handel, Peter van der Bilt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien

3:16

Act 1 "Can You Then Think" "Great God! Who, Yet But Darkly Known" "My Friends, Be Confident" [Cyrus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Maureen Lehane

4:49

Act 1 "All Empires" [Chorus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Eric Ericson, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:39

Act 1 "Oh Sacred Oracles" [Daniel]

Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel

5:17

Act 1 "Rejoice, My Countrymen" "For Long Ago" "Thus Saith the Lord" [Daniel]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien

3:07

Act 1 "Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!" [Chorus]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Stockholm Kammerkören, Concentus Musicus Wien

4:34

Act 1 "Let Festal Joy" [Belshazzar]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Robert Tear, George Frideric Handel

4:53

Act 1 "For You, My Friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]

George Frideric Handel, Felicity Palmer, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Robert Tear, Concentus Musicus Wien

1:01

Act 1 "The Leafy Honours" [Nitocris]

Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Felicity Palmer

8:17

Act 1 "It Is the Custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris]

Robert Tear, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Felicity Palmer, Concentus Musicus Wien

1:54

Act 1 "Recall, Oh King!" [Chorus]

Stockholm Kammerkören, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel

2:59

Act 1 "They Tell You True" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]

Robert Tear, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Felicity Palmer

1:36

Act 1 "Oh Dearer Than My Life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Felicity Palmer, Robert Tear, Concentus Musicus Wien

6:43

Act 1 "By Slow Degrees" [Chorus]

George Frideric Handel, Stockholm Kammerkören, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:37

Act 2 "See from His Post" "Why, Faithless River" "Euphrates Hath His Task" "Of Things On Earth" [Chorus]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Stockholm Kammerkören, Concentus Musicus Wien, Eric Ericson

6:30

Act 2 "You See, My Friends" "Amaz'd to Find the Foe So Near" [Cyrus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Maureen Lehane

5:25

Act 2 "To Arms, to Arms!" [Chorus]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Stockholm Kammerkören, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

0:30

Act 2 "Ye Tutelar Gods" [Chorus]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Stockholm Kammerkören, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

2:55

Act 2 "Let the Deep Bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where Is the God" [Chorus] "Help, Help the King!" [Chorus, Belshazzar] "Call All My Wise Men" [Belshazzar]

Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Robert Tear, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Stockholm Kammerkören

5:45

Act 2 "Ye Sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! Too Hard a Task" [Chorus]

Stockholm Kammerkören, Robert Tear, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

2:42

Act 2 "Oh Misery!" [Chorus]

Stockholm Kammerkören, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel

1:32

Act 2 "Oh King" [Nitocris] "Art Thou That Daniel" [Belshazzar]

Felicity Palmer, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Robert Tear

1:44

Act 2 "No! to Thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to Obey" [Daniel] "Though, O King" [Daniel] "Oh Sentence Too Severe!" [Nitocris]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, Felicity Palmer, George Frideric Handel

4:41

Act 2 "Regard, Oh Son" [Nitocris]

George Frideric Handel, Felicity Palmer, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

6:23

Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, Lead Directly to the Palace" [Cyrus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Maureen Lehane

5:28

Act 2 "Oh Glorious Prince!" [Chorus]

Eric Ericson, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:45

Act 3 "Alternate Hopes and Fears" [Nitocris]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Felicity Palmer, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:31

Act 3 "Fain Would I Hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the Black Aethiop Change His Skin?" [Daniel]

Felicity Palmer, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:19

Act 3 "My Hopes Revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Sunnegardh, Felicity Palmer, Concentus Musicus Wien, Staffan Sandlund, George Frideric Handel

2:14

Act 3 "Bel Boweth Down" [Chorus]

Stockholm Kammerkören, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien

1:35

Act 3 "I Thank Thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] a Marital Symphony

Concentus Musicus Wien, Robert Tear, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:14

Act 3 "To Pow'r Immortal" [Gobrias]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Peter van der Bilt, George Frideric Handel

2:14

Act 3 "Be It Thy Care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Maureen Lehane

3:01

Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Felicity Palmer, George Frideric Handel, Maureen Lehane

5:15

Act 3 "Say, Venerable Prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Maureen Lehane

0:48

Act 3 "Tell It Out" [Chorus] "Yes, I Will Build the City" [Cyrus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Stockholm Kammerkören, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Maureen Lehane

3:31

Act 3 "I Will Magnify Thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger]

Robert Tear, Thomas Sunnegardh, Staffan Sandlund, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paul Esswood, Peter van der Bilt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Felicity Palmer, George Frideric Handel, Stockholm Kammerkören, Maureen Lehane

5:34

Overture: Menuet

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

6:52

Act 1 "It Must Be So: or These Vile Ammonites" "Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs" [Zebul]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Thomas Thomaschke, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

6:45

Act 1 "No More to Ammon's God and King" [Chorus]

Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Mozart Boys' Choir

2:46

Act 1 "But Jephtha Comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace" [Jephtha]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Thomaschke, Werner Hollweg

5:06

Act 1 "'twill Be a Painful Separation, Jephtha" "In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn" [Storgè]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Glenys Linos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5:54

Act 1 "Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis" "Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish" [Hamor]

George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien

5:06

Act 1 "Ill Suits the Voice of Love When Glory Calls" "Take the Heart You Fondly Gave" [Iphis]

George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Elizabeth Gale

4:26

Act 1 "I Go; My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command" [Hamor] "These Labours Past, How Happy We!" [Iphis]

Elizabeth Gale, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel

6:52

Act 1 "What Mean These Doubtful Fancies" "If, Lord, Susain'd" "'tis Said" [Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel

1:48

Act 1 "O God, Behold Our Sore Distress" [Chorus]

Mozart Boys' Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

4:06

Act 1 "Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads" "Scenes of Horror, Scenes of Woe" [Storgè]

Glenys Linos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

5:12

Act 1 "Say, My Dear Mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The Smiling Dawn of Happy Days" [Iphis]

Elizabeth Gale, Glenys Linos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

4:13

Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, Was the Haughty King's Reply" [Zebul, Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, Thomas Thomaschke, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:29

Act 1 "When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke" [Chorus]

Erwin Ortner, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:29

Act 2 "Glad Tidings of Great Joy to Thee, Dear Iphis" [Hamor]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Paul Esswood

1:05

Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, Unbodied Forms" [Chorus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mozart Boys' Choir, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel

3:35

Act 2 "Up the Dreadful Steep Ascending" [Hamor]

George Frideric Handel, Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:57

Act 2 "'tis Well. Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens" "Tune the Soft Melodious Lute" [Iphis]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Elizabeth Gale

4:36

Act 2 "Again Heav'n Smiles On His Repentant People" "Freedom Now Once More Possessing" [Zebul]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Thomas Thomaschke

3:43

Act 2 "Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant" "His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow" [Jephtha]

Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Werner Hollweg

6:29

Act 2 "In Glory High, In Might Serene" [Chorus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mozart Boys' Choir

2:23

Act 2 Symphony

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

1:23

Act 2 "Hail, Glorious Conqueror!" "Welcome As the Cheerful Light" [Iphis, Chorus]

Concentus Musicus Wien, Mozart Boys' Choir, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Elizabeth Gale

4:54

Act 2 "Horror! Confusion!" "Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb" [Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien

4:17

Act 2 "Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Thomas Thomaschke, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

1:11

Act 2 "First Perish Thou, and Perish All the World!... Let Other Creatures Die" [Storgè]

Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Glenys Linos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:50

Act 2 "If Such Thy Cruel Purpose" "On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal" [Hamor]

Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:51

Act 2 "O Spare Your Daughter!" [Zebul, Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha]

Glenys Linos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Paul Esswood, Thomas Thomaschke, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Werner Hollweg

2:32

Act 2 "Such News Fly Swift" "Happy They! This Vital Breath" [Iphis]

George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Elizabeth Gale

5:17

Act 2 "Deeper and Deeper Still" [Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

3:39

Act 2 "How Dark, O Lord, Are Thy Decrees!" [Chorus]

Mozart Boys' Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel

6:42

Act 3 "Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun" "A Father, Offering Up" "Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies" [Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

6:20

Act 3 "Ye Sacred Priests" "Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs and Floods" [Iphis]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien, Elizabeth Gale

5:40

Act 3 "Doubtful Fear and Rev'rent Awe" [Chorus]

Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Mozart Boys' Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:06

Act 3 "And They Determin'd Will Declare" Symphony [Chorus]

Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Mozart Boys' Choir

1:52

Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and Ye Rev'rend Priests" "Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live" [Angel]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gabriele Sima, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

5:53

Act 3 "For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name" [Jephtha]

Werner Hollweg, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

1:48

Act 3 "Theme Sublime of Endless Praise" [Chorus]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mozart Boys' Choir, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

3:08

Act 3 "Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn" "Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train" [Zebul]

Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel, Thomas Thomaschke, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:38

Act 3 "O Let Me Fold Thee In a Mother's Arms" "Sweet As Sight to the Blind" [Storgè]

Glenys Linos, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel, Concentus Musicus Wien

2:31

Act 3 "With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety" "'tis Heaven's All-ruling Pow'r" [Hamor]

Paul Esswood, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, George Frideric Handel

7:35

Act 3 "My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence" "Freely I to Heaven Resign" [Iphis]

Elizabeth Gale, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, George Frideric Handel

5:59

Act 3 "Ye House of Gilead, With One Voice" [Chorus]

Mozart Boys' Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Concentus Musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Erwin Ortner

3:25