Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720

I. Andante

III. Allegro

I. Recitative "'Tis Greater Far to Spare, Than to Destroy"

III. Recitative "Our Souls with Ardour Glow"

IV. Chorus "Shall We the God of Israel's Fear?"

II. Air "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains"

IV. Recitative "O God, Who from the Suckling's Mouth"

V. Air "Praise the Lord with Cheerful Noise"

VI. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"

II. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"

III. Air "O Jordan, Jordan, Sacred Tide"

I. Recitative "Why Sits That Sorrow on thy Brow?"

III. Recitative "I Go Before the King to Stand"

V. Chorus "Save Us, O Lord"

I. Recitative "Who Dares Intrude into Our Presence Without Our Leave?"

II. Duet "Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?"

III. Air "O Beauteous Queen, Unclose Those Eyes!"

IV. Recitative "If I Find Favour in thy Sight"

V. Air "How Can I Stay, When Love Invites?"

VI. Recitative "With Inward Joy His Visage Glows"

VII. Chorus "Virtue, Truth and Innocence"

I. Air "Jehovah Crown'd with Glory Bright"

I. Recitative "Now, O Queen, They Suit Declare"

II. Accompagnato "Turn Not, O Queen, thy Face Away"

IV. Recitative "Guards, Seize the Traitor, Bear Him Hence!"

V. Air "How Art Thou Fall'n from thy Height!"

VI. Chorus "The Lord Our Enemy Has Slain"