‎Handel: Belshazzar by Jürgen Budday

Overture

Andre Morsch, Jürgen Budday, Patrick van Goethem, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

4:35

Behold, by Persia's hero made (Chorus of Babylonians)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch

2:37

Recitative: Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe (Gobrias, Cyrus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Andre Morsch

1:47

Aria: Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief (Gobrias)

Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Andre Morsch, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

3:19

Aria: Dry those unavailing tears (Cyrus)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Andre Morsch, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

2:14

Recitative: Be comforted (Cyrus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

0:31

Recitative: Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates (Cyrus)

Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

2:22

Recitative: Now tell me, Gobrias, does not this Euphrates (Cyrus, Gobrias)

Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Andre Morsch, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem

1:22

Aria: Behold the monstrous human beast (Gobrias)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance

3:23

Recitative - Aria: Can you then think it strange (Cyrus)

Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch

3:52

Recitative: My friends, be confident and boldly enter upon this high exploit (Cyrus)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch, Jürgen Budday, Patrick van Goethem, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

0:43

All empires upon God depend (Chorus of Persians)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Miriam Allan, Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance

3:22

Aria: O sacred oracles of truth (Daniel)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Miriam Allan, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch

4:57

Recitative: Rejoice, my countrymen! (Daniel)

Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Andre Morsch

3:37

Sing, O ye Heav'ns, for the Lord hath done it! (Chorus of Jews)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

4:31

Aria: Let festal joy triumphant reign (Belshazzar)

Miriam Allan, Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch

5:00

Recitative: For you my friends, the nobles of my court (Belshazzar, Nitocris)

Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Andre Morsch

2:23

Recall, O king, thy rash command (Chorus of Jews)

Miriam Allan, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

3:37

Recitative: They tell you true (Nitocris, Belshazzar)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

1:40

Duet: O dearer than my life, forbear (Nitocris, Belshazzar)

Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

6:13

By slow degress the wrath of God (Chorus of Jews)

Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch

4:51

See, from his post Euphrates flies (Chorus of Persians)

Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch

7:17

Recitative: You see, my friends, a path into the city lies open (Cyrus)

Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

0:49

To arms, to arms, no more delay! (Chorus of Persians)

Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch

0:42

Ye tutelar gods of our empire (Chorus of Babylonians)

Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch

3:14

Aria: Let the deep bowl thy praise confess (Belshazzar)

Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch, Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

2:32

Recitative: Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r? (Belshazzar)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Andre Morsch

0:44

Chorus - Recitative: Help, help the king! (Belshazzar)

Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

2:26

Recitative: Call all my Wise Men (Belshazzar)

Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch

2:09

Recitative: Ye sages, welcome always to your king (Belshazzar, Wise Men)

Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance

1:06

Oh, misery! Oh terror, hopeless grief! (Chorus of Babylonians)

Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch

1:58

Recitative: O king, live for ever! (Nitocris, Belshazzar)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Jürgen Budday, Andre Morsch, Patrick van Goethem, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

1:42

Aria: No., to thyself thy trifles be (Daniel)

Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch, Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem

1:39

Reicitative: Yet, to obey His dread command (Daniel)

Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Andre Morsch

3:25

Recitative: Oh, sentence too severe (Nitocris)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

0:20

Aria: Regard thyself (Nitocris)

Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch

6:23

Aria: O God of truth, O faithful guide (Cyrus)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch, Patrick van Goethem, Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday

4:51

Recitative: You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace (Cyrus)

Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance

1:04

O glorious prince, thrice happy they born to enjoy thy future sway (Chorus of Persians)

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch

5:23

Aria: Alternate hopes and fears distract my mind (Nitocris)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Miriam Allan

4:26

Recitative: My hopes revive, here Arioch comes! (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)

Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Andre Morsch, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

2:06

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth! (Chorus of Jews)

Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Miriam Allan, Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch

1:29

Aria: I thank thee, Sesach! (Belshazzar)

Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch

1:34

A Martial Symphony

Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch

0:43

Aria: To pow'r immortal my first thanks are due (Gobrias)

Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch

3:22

Recitative: Be it thy care, good Gobrias (Cyrus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Miriam Allan, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch, Patrick van Goethem, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

0:24

Aria: Destructive war, thy limits know (Cyrus)

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch

2:29

Duet: Great victor, at your feet I bow (Nitocris, Cyrus)

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Miriam Allan, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch

4:25

Recitative: Say, venerable prophet, is there aught (Cyrus, Daniel)

Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Andre Morsch

0:51

Tell it out among the heathen (Soloists, Chorus)

Jürgen Budday, Miriam Allan, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Andre Morsch

2:00

Recitative: Yes, I will build thy city, God of Israel! (Cyrus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Patrick van Goethem, Miriam Allan, Andre Morsch, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Edition Monastery Maulbronn

2:37

I will magnify Thee, O God my king (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Miriam Allan, Jürgen Budday, Patrick van Goethem, Andre Morsch, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

6:04

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Jürgen Budday

Conductor
Hannoversche Hofkapelle

Orchestra
Miriam Allan

Soprano
Michael Chance

Countertenor

Handel: Belshazzar

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