Georg Friedrich Händel: The 16 Great Oratorios (Exklusiv bei jpc) (41 CDs)

Georg Friedrich Händel: The 16 Great Oratorios (Exklusiv bei jpc)

The 16 Great Oratorios (Exklusiv bei jpc)

Emma Kirkby, Patrizia Kwella, Carolyn Watkinson, Ian Partridge, David Thomas (USA), Norma Burrowes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Martyn Hill, Willard White, Paul Elliott, Joan Sutherland, Aled Jones, James Bowman, Donna Brown, Stephen Varcoe, Alastair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Lynne Dawson, Ruth Holton, Arleen Auger, Anne Sofie von Otter, Howard Crook, John Tomlinson, Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Michael George, Jonathan Best, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Sylvia McNair, Paul Esswood, Andreas Scholl, Inger Dam-Jensen, Alison Hagley, Susan Bickley, Susan Gritton, Paul Agnew, Monteverdi Choir, The Sixteen, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, English Baroque Soloists, English Chamber Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Christopher Hogwood, John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, John Nelson, Charles Mackerras, Paul McCreesh und weitere

41 CDs

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Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759): The 16 Great Oratorios (Exklusiv bei jpc), 41 CDs

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La Resurrezione; Acis & Galatea; Esther; Athalia; Alexander’s Feast; Saul; Israel in Egypt; Messiah; Samson; Semele; Hercules; Belshazzar; Judas Maccabaeus; Solomon; Theodora; Jephtha
+2 Coronation Anthems

Künstler: Emma Kirkby, Patrizia Kwella, Carolyn Watkinson, Ian Partridge, David Thomas, Norma Burrowes, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Martyn Hill, Willard White, Paul Elliott, Joan Sutherland, Aled Jones, James Bowman, Donna Brown, Stephen Varcoe, Alastair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Lynne Dawson, Ruth Holton, Arleen Auger, Anne Sofie von Otter, Howard Crook, John Tomlinson, Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Michael George, Jonathan Best, Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, John Aler, Sylvia McNair, Paul Esswood, Andreas Scholl, Inger Dam-Jensen, Alison Hagley, Susan Bickley, Susan Gritton, Paul Agnew, Monteverdi Choir, The Sixteen, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, English Baroque Soloists, English Chamber Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Christopher Hogwood, John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, John Nelson, Charles Mackerras, Paul McCreesh
Label: Decca, ADD/DDD, 1976-2002
Erscheinungstermin: 15.7.2016

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»... so ist ein schöner Querschnitt entstanden mit Aufnahmen von 1977-2002 der einschlägigen englischen Ensembles unter der Leitung von John Elliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock u.a. und besten Solisten.« (Fono Forum, Oktober 2016)

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Disk 1 von 41 (CD)

La Resurrezione 1708, Hwv 47 (Original Version)

1 Sonate (Parte Prima)
2 Aria: "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno" Angelo (Parte Prima)
3 Recitativo accompagnato: "Qual'insolita luce" Lucifero (Parte Prima)
4 Recitativo accompagnato: "Ma, che veggio?" Lucifero, Angelo (Parte Prima)
5 Aria: "D'amor fu consiglio" Angelo (Parte Prima)
6 Aria: "O voi, dell'Erebo" Lucifero (Parte Prima)
7 Recitativo accompagnato: "Notte, notte funesta" Maddalena (Parte Prima)
8 Aria: "Piangete, sì, piangete" Cleofe (Parte Prima)
9 Aria: "Dolci chiodi, amate spine" Maddalena, Cleofe (Parte Prima)
10 Aria: "Quando è parto dell'affetto" S. Giovanni (Parte Prima)
11 Aria: "Naufragando va per l'onde" Cleofe (Parte Prima)
12 Aria: "Così la tortorella" S. Giovanni (Parte Prima)
13 Aria: "Ho un non so che nel cor" Maddalena (Parte Prima)
14 Coro: "Il Nume vincitor" Angelo, Coro di Angeli (Parte Prima)

Disk 2 von 41 (CD)

La Resurrezione 1708, Hwv 47 (Original Version)

1 Introduction (Parte Seconda)
2 Aria: "Ecco il sol, ch'esce dal mar" S. Giovanni (Parte Seconda)
3 Aria: "Risorga il mondo" Angelo (Parte Seconda)
4 Recitativo accompagnato: "Di rabbia indarno freme" Angelo (Parte Seconda)
5 Aria: "Per celare il nuovo scorno" Lucifero (Parte Seconda)
6 Aria: "Impedirlo io saprò" Lucifero, Angelo (Parte Seconda)
7 Aria: "Per me già di morire" Maddalena (Parte Seconda)
8 Aria: "Vedo il Ciel che più sereno" Cleofe (Parte Seconda)
9 Aria: "Se per colpa di donna infelice" Angelo (Parte Seconda)
10 Aria: "Del ciglio dolente" Maddalena (Parte Seconda)
11 Aria: "Augelletti, ruscelletti" Cleofe (Parte Seconda)
12 Aria: "Caro Figlio!" S. Giovanni (Parte Seconda)
13 Aria: "Se impassibile, immortale" Maddalena (Parte Seconda)
14 Coro: "Diasi lode in Cielo, in terra" (Parte Seconda)

Disk 3 von 41 (CD)

Acis And Galatea, Hwv 49

1 Sinfonia (First Version)
2 Oh, the pleasure of the plains (First Version)
3 Ye verdant plains (First Version)
4 Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (First Version)
5 Where shall I seek the charming fair (First Version)
6 Stay, shepherd, stay (First Version)
7 Shepherd, what art thou pursuing (First Version)
8 Lo! here my love (First Version)
9 Love in her eyes sits playing (First Version)
10 Oh! didst thou know (First Version)
11 As when the dove laments her love (First Version)
12 Happy we (First Version)

Disk 4 von 41 (CD)

Acis And Galatea, Hwv 49

1 Wretched lovers (First Version)
2 I rage, I melt, I burn (First Version)
3 O ruddier than the cherry (First Version)
4 Whither, fairest, art thou running (First Version)
5 Cease to beauty to be suing (First Version)
6 Would you gain the tender creature (First Version)
7 His hideous love (First Version)
8 Love sounds th'alarm (First Version)
9 Consider, fond shepherd (First Version)
10 Cease, o cease (First Version)
11 The flocks shall leave the mountains (First Version)
12 Help, Galatea (First Version)
13 Mourn, all ye Muses (First Version)
14 Must I my Acis still bemoan (First Version)
15 'Tis done (First Version)
16 Heart, the seat of soft delight (First Version)
17 Galatea, dry thy tears (First Version)

Disk 5 von 41 (CD)

Esther (Original Version)

1 Ouverture...Recit "Tis greater far to spare" (Scene 1)
2 "Pluck root and branch from out the land" (Scene 1)
3 "Shall we the God of Israel fear?" (Scene 1)
4 "Tune your harps to cheerful strains" (Scene 2)
5 "Shall we of servitude complain" (Scene 2)
6 "Praise the Lord with cheerful noise" (Scene 2)
7 "Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee" (Scene 2)
8 "Ye sons of Israel mourn" (Scene 3)
9 "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide" (Scene 3)
10 "Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger (Scene 4)
11 "Tears assist me, pity moving" (Scene 4)
12 "Save us, O Lord" (Scene 4)

Disk 6 von 41 (CD)

Esther (Original Version)

1 "Who dares intrude into our presence" (Scene 5)
2 "Who calls my parting soul from death?" (Scene 5)
3 "O beauteous Queen"...Recit:"If I find favour" (Scene 5)
4 "How can I stay when love invites" (Scene 5)
5 "Virtue, truth and innocence" (Scene 5)
6 "Jehovah, crown'd with glory bright" (Scene 5)
7 "Turn not, O Queen, thy face away" (Scene 6)
8 "Flatt'ring tongue, no more I hear thee!" (Scene 6)
9 "How art thou fall'n from thy height!" (Scene 6)
10 "The Lord our enemy has slain" (Scene 6)

Disk 7 von 41 (CD)

Athalia (Original Version)

1 Sinfonia (Act 1)
2 "Blooming virgins, spotless train" (Act 1)
3 "The rising world Jehovah crown'd" (Act 1)
4 "Tyrants would in impious throngs" (Act 1)
5 "When he is in his wrath reveal'd" (Act 1)
6 "Your sacred songs awhile forbear" (Act 1)
7 "What scenes of horror round me rise!" (Act 1)
8 "The gods, who chosen blessings shed" (Act 1)
9 "Cheer her, O Baal" (Act 1)
10 "Gentle airs, melodious strains!" (Act 1)
11 "Softest sounds no more can ease me" (Act 1)
12 "The traitor if you there descry...My Josabeth!" (Act 1)
13 "Faithful cares in vain extended" (Act 1)
14 "Gloomy tyrants, we disdain" (Act 1)

Disk 8 von 41 (CD)

Athalia (Original Version)

1 "The mighty pow'r" (Act 2)
2 "Through the land so lovely blooming" (Act 2)
3 "Ah, canst thou but prove me!" (Act 2)
4 "Will God, whose mercies ever flow" (Act 2)
5 "My vengeance awakes me" (Act 2)
6 "My spirits fail, I faint, I die!" (Act 2)
7 "Cease thy anguish, smile once more" (Act 2)
8 "The clouded scene begins to clear" (Act 2)
9 "What sacred horrors shake my breast!" (Act 3)
10 "Unfold, great seer, what heav'n imparts" (Act 3)
11 "Let harmony breathe soft around" (Act 3)
12 "With firm united hearts" (Act 3)
13 "Soothing tyrant, falsely smiling" (Act 3)
14 "Around let acclamations ring" (Act 3)
15 "Oppression, no longer I dread thee" (Act 3)
16 "Hark! His thunders round me roll" (Act 3)
17 "To darkness eternal" (Act 3)
18 "Now, Josabeth, thy fears are o'er!" (Act 3)
19 "Give glory to his awful name" (Act 3)

Disk 9 von 41 (CD)

Alexander's Feast (original version)

1 Overture (Part 1)
2 "T'was at the royal feast" (Part 1)
3 "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Part 1)
4 "Timotheus placed on high" (Part 1)
5 "The song began from Jove" (Part 1)
6 "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" (Part 1)
7 "With ravish'd ears" (Part 1)
8 "The praise of Bacchus then" (Part 1)
9 "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Part 1)
10 "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" (Part 1)
11 "He chose a mournful Muse" (Part 1)
12 "He sung Darius, great and good" (Part 1)
13 "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Part 1)
14 "Behold Darius great and good" (Part 1)
15 "The mighty master smiled to see" (Part 1)
16 "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Part 1)
17 "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Part 1)
18 "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Part 1)
19 "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Part 1)
20 "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Part 1)

Disk 10 von 41 (CD)

Concerto Grosso In C, Hwv 318 "alexander's Feast"

1 1. Allegro (Original Version)
2 2. Largo - Adagio (Original Version)
3 3. Allegro - Adagio (Original Version)
4 4. Andante non presto (Original Version)

Alexander's Feast (original version)

5 "Now strike the golden lyre again" - "Break his bond" "Hark, hark! The horrid sound" (Part 2)
6 "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - "Behold, a ghastly band" (Part 2)
7 "Give the vengeance due" (Part 2)
8 "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Part 2)
9 "Thaïs led the way" - "The princes applaud" (Part 2)
10 "Thus, long ago" (Part 2)
11 "At last divine Cecilia came" (Part 2)
12 "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Part 2)
13 "Let's imitate her notes above!" (Part 2)
14 "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Part 2)
15 "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Part 2)

Disk 11 von 41 (CD)

Saul, Hwv 53 (Revised By John Eliot Gardiner & Anthony Hicks)

1 Allegro (Symphony)
2 Larghetto (Symphony)
3 Allegro (Symphony)
4 Andante larghetto (Symphony)
5 "How excellent thy Name, O Lord" (Act 1)
6 "An Infant rais'd by thy Command...Along the Monster Atheist strode" (Act 1)
7 "The Youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord" (Act 1)
8 "How excellent thy Name, O Lord" (Act 1)
9 "He comes... O Godlike Youth!" (Act 1)
10 "Behold, O King, the brave victorious Youth" (Act 1)
11 "O King, your Favours with Delight I take...O early Piety!" (Act 1)
12 "What abject Thoughts a Prince can have...Yet think, on whom this Honour you bestow" (Act 1)
13 "Birth and Fortune I despise!" (Act 1)
14 "Go on, illustrious Pair!...While yet thy Tide of Blood runs high" (Act 1)
15 "Thou, Merab, first in Birth... My Soul rejects the Thought...See, see with what a scornful Air...Ah! Lovely Youth!")
16 Symphony...Already see...Welcome, welcome mighty King!" (Act 1)
17 "What do I hear?...David his Ten Thousands slew...To him Ten thousands!" (Act 1)
18 "With Rage I shall burst his Praises to hear!" (Act 1)
19 "Imprudent Women!" (Act 1)
20 28. Air: Fell Rage and black Despair possessed (Act 1)
21 29. Recitative: This but the smallest Part of Harmony 30. Accompagnato: By thee this Universal Frame (Act 1)
22 31. Recitative: Rack'd with Infernal Pains (Act 1)
23 32. Air: O Lord, whose Mercies - 33. Symphony (Act 1)
24 34: Recitative: 'Tis all in vain - 35. Air: A Serpent in my Bosom warm'd - 36. Recitative: Has he escaped my Rage? (Act)
25 37. Air: Capricious Man (Act 1)
26 38. Accompagnato: O Filial Piety! (Act 1)
27 39. Air: No, no cruel Father, no (Act 1)
28 40. Air: O Lord, whose Providence Ever wakes for their Defence (Act 1)
29 41. Chorus: Preserve him for the Glory of thy Name (Act 1)

30 Audience Applause Act 1 (Live in Göttingen / 1989)

Disk 12 von 41 (CD)

Saul, Hwv 53 (Revised By John Eliot Gardiner & Anthony Hicks)

1 42. Chorus: Envy! Eldestborn of Hell! (Act 2)
2 43. Recitative: Ah! dearest Friend (Act 2)
3 44. Air: But sooner Jordan's Stream, I swear (Act 2)
4 45. Recitative: O strange Vicissitude! (Act 2)
5 46. Air: Such haughty Beauties (Act 2)
6 47. Recitative: My Father comes - 48. Recitative: Hast thou obey'd my Orders (Act 2)
7 49. Air: Sin not, o King, against the Youth (Act 2)
8 50. Air: As great Jehovah lives (Act 2)
9 51. Air: From Cities storm'd, and Battles won (Act 2)
10 52. Recitative: Appear, my Friend (Act 2)
11 53. Air: Your Words, O King - 54. Recitative: Yes he shall wed my Daughter! (Act 2)
12 55. Recitative: A Father's Will (Act 2)
13 56. Duet: O Fairest of ten thousand Fair - 57. Chorus: Is there a Man (Act 2)
14 58. Symphony (Act 2)
15 59. Recitative: Thy Father is as cruel (Act 2)
16 60. Duet: At Persecution I can laugh (Act 2)
17 61. Recitative: Whom dost thou seek? (Act 2)
18 62. Air: No, no, let the Guilty tremble (Act 2)
19 63. Recitative: Mean as he was (Act 2)
20 64. Air: Author of Peace (Act 2)
21 65. Symphony (Act 2)
22 66. Accompagnato: The Time at length is come - 67. Recitative: Where is the Son of Jesse (Act 2)
23 68. Chorus: O fatal Consequence of Rage (Act 2)

Disk 13 von 41 (CD)

Saul, Hwv 53 (Revised By John Eliot Gardiner & Anthony Hicks)

1 69. Accompagnato: Wretch that I am - 70. Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a Woman - 71. Recitative: With me what)
2 72. Air: Infernal Spirits (Act 3)
3 73. Accompagnato: Why hast thou forc'd me from the Realms of Peace (Act 3)
4 74. Symphony (Act 3)
5 75. Recitative: Whence comest thou? - 76. Air: Impious Wretch, of Race accurst (Act 3)
6 77. March (Act 3)
7 78. Chorus: Mourn Israel (Act 3)
8 79. Air: O let it not in Gath be heard (Act 3)
9 80. Air: From this unhappy Day (Act 3)
10 81. Air: Brave Jonathan his Bow ne'er drew (Act 3)
11 82. Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they (Act 3)
12 83. Air: In sweetest Harmony (Act 3)
13 84. Solo and Chorus: O fatal Day (Act 3)
14 85. Recitative: Ye Men of Judah, weep no more (Act 3)
15 86. Chorus: Gird on thy Sword (Act 3)

16 Audience Applause Act 3 (Live in Göttingen / 1989)

Disk 14 von 41 (CD)

Israel In Egypt, Hwv 54

1 Overture (Original Version)

Israel In Egypt, Hwv 54 (Original Version)

2 Rec.:"Now there arose a new king" - Chorus: "And the children of israel" (Part 1: Exodus)
3 Rec.:"Then sent he Moses" - Chorus: "They loathed to drink" (Part 1: Exodus)
4 No.5 Air: "Their land brought forth frogs" (Part 1: Exodus)
5 No.6 Chorus: "He spake the word" (Part 1: Exodus)
6 No.7 Chorus: "He gave them hailstones" (Part 1: Exodus)
7 No.8 Chorus: "He sent a thick darkness" (Part 1: Exodus)
8 No.9 Chorus: "He smote all the first-born" (Part 1: Exodus)
9 No.10 Chorus: "But as for his people" (Part 1: Exodus)
10 No.11 Chorus: "Egypt was glad when they departed" (Part 1: Exodus)
11 No.12 Chorus: "He rebuked the Red Sea" (Part 1: Exodus)
12 No.13 Chorus: "And Israel saw that great work" (Part 1: Exodus)

Disk 15 von 41 (CD)

Israel In Egypt, Hwv 54 (Original Version)

1 No.14 Introitus Chorus: "Moses and the children of Israel" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
2 No.15 Duet: "The Lord is my strength" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
3 No.16 Chorus: "He is my God" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
4 No.17 Duet: "The Lord is a man of war" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
5 No.18 Chorus: "The depths have covered them" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
6 No.19 Chorus: "Thy right hand, o Lord" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
7 No.20 Chorus: "And with the blast of thy nostrils" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
8 No.21 Air: "The enemy said: I will pursue" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
9 No.22 Air: "Thou didst blow with the wind" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
10 No.23 Chorus: "Who is like unto thee" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
11 No.24 Duet: "Thou in thy mercy" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
12 No.25 Chorus: "The people shall hear and be afraid" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
13 No.26 Air: "Thou shalt bring them" (Part 2: Moses' Song)
14 Chorus:"The Lord shall reign" - Rec.: "For the horse" - Chorus - Rec.: "And Miriam" - Chorus: "Sing ye to the Lord")

Zadok The Priest Coronation Anthem No. 1, Hwv 258

15 Original Version

The King Shall Rejoice Coronation Anthem No.3, Hwv 260

16 Original Version

Disk 16 von 41 (CD)

Messiah, Hwv 56 (Original Version)

1 Symphony (Pt. 1)
2 "Comfort ye, My people" (Pt. 1)
3 "Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted" (Pt. 1)
4 "And The Glory Of The Lord" (Pt. 1)
5 "Thus saith the Lord" (Pt. 1)
6 "But who may abide the day of his coming" (Pt. 1)
7 "And He Shall Purify The Sons Of Levi" (Pt. 1)
8 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive" (Pt. 1)
9 "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion" (Pt. 1)
10 "For behold, darkness shall cover" (Pt. 1)
11 "The people that walked in darkness" (Pt. 1)
12 "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" (Pt. 1)
13 Pifa Pastoral Symphony (Pt. 1)
14 "There were shepherds ...And suddenly there" (Pt. 1)
15 "Glory to God in the highest" (Pt. 1)
16 "Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion" (Pt. 1)
17 "Then shall the eyes of the blind" (Pt. 1)
18 " He shall feed his flock" (Pt. 1)
19 "His Yoke Is Easy" (Pt. 1)
20 "Behold The Lamb Of God" (Pt. 2)
21 "He Was Despised" (Pt. 2)

Disk 17 von 41 (CD)

Messiah, Hwv 56 (Original Version)

1 "Surely He hath borne our griefs" (Pt. 2)
2 "And with His stripes we are healed" (Pt. 2)
3 "All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray" (Pt. 2)
4 "All they that see Him" (Pt. 2)
5 "He trusted in God" (Pt. 2)
6 "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart" (Pt. 2)
7 "Behold and see" (Pt. 2)
8 "He was cut off" (Pt. 2)
9 "But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell" (Pt. 2)
10 "Lift Up Your Heads" (Pt. 2)
11 "Unto which of the angels" (Pt. 2)
12 "Let all the angels of God" (Pt. 2)
13 "Thou Art Gone Up On High" (Pt. 2)
14 "The Lord Gave The Word" (Pt. 2)
15 "How Beautiful Are The Feet" (Pt. 2)
16 "Their Sound Is Gone Out" (Pt. 2)
17 "Why do the nations so furiously rage together?" (Pt. 2)
18 "Let us break their bonds asunder" (Pt. 2)
19 "He that dwelleth in heaven" (Pt. 2)
20 "Thou shalt break them" (Pt. 2)
21 "Hallelujah" (Pt. 2)
22 "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" (Pt. 3)
23 "Since By Man Came Death" (Pt. 3)
24 "Behold, I tell you a mystery" (Pt. 3)
25 "The trumpet shall sound" (Pt. 3)
26 "Then shall be brought to pass" (Pt. 3)
27 "O death where is thy sting?" (Pt. 3)
28 "But Thanks Be To God" (Pt. 3)
29 "If God Be For Us" (Pt. 3)
30 "Worthy is the Lamb... Amen" (Pt. 3)

Disk 18 von 41 (CD)

Samson, Hwv 57 (Samson, Hwv 57)

1 Overture (Act 1)
2 "This day, a solemn feast to Dagon held" (Act 1)
3 "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" (Act 1)
4 "Ye men of Gaza" (Act 1)
5 "Awake the trumpet's lofty sound" (Act 1)
6 "Loud as the thunder's aweful voice" (Act 1)
7 "Then free from sorrow" (Act 1)
8 "Philistines awake the trumpet's lofty sound" (Act 1)
9 "Why by an angel" (Act 1)
10 "Torments alas!" (Act 1)
11 "O change beyond report" (Act 1)
12 "O mirror of our fickle state!" (Act 1)
13 "Whom have I to complain" (Act 1)
14 "Total eclipse!" (Act 1)
15 "Since light so necessary is to life" (Act 1)
16 "Oh first created beam!" (Act 1)
17 "Ye see, my friends" (Act 1)
18 "Brethren and men of Dan" (Act 1)
19 "O miserable change" (Act 1)
20 "O ever failing trust" (Act 1)
21 "God of our fathers" (Act 1)
22 "The good we wish for" (Act 1)
23 "Thy glorious deeds" (Act 1)
24 "Justly these evils" (Act 1)
25 "My griefs for this" (Act 1)
26 "Why does the God of Israel sleep?" (Act 1)
27 "There lies our hope!" (Act 1)
28 "Then shall they know" (Act 1)
29 "For thee, my dearest son" (Act 1)
30 "Then long eternity" (Act 1)
31 "Then round about the starry throne" (Act 1)

Disk 19 von 41 (CD)

Samson, Hwv 57 (Samson, Hwv 57)

1 "Despair not thus!" (Act 2)
2 "Just are the ways of God to man" (Act 2)
3 "My evils hopeless are!" (Act 2)
4 "Return, oh God of hosts!" (Act 2)
5 "But who is this" (Act 2)
6 "With plaintive notes" (Act 2)
7 "Alas! Th'event was worse than I foresaw" (Act 2)
8 "Your charms to ruin led the way" (Act 2)
9 "Forgive what's done" (Act 2)
10 "My faith and truth" (Act 2)
11 "To fleeting pleasures make your court" (Act 2)
12 "Ne'er think of that!" (Act 2)
13 "Traitor to love!" (Act 2)
14 "It is not virtue, valour, wit" (Act 2)
15 "Favour'd of heaven is he" (Act 2)
16 "To man God's universal law" (Act 2)
17 "No words of peace" (Act 2)
18 "Honour and arms scorn such a foe" (Act 2)
19 "Put on your arms" (Act 2)
20 "My strength is from the living God" (Act 2)
21 "With thee!" (Act 2)
22 "Go, baffled coward, go" (Act 2)
23 "Here lie the proof" (Act 2)
24 "Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah, hear!" (Act 2)
25 "Dagon, arise!" (Act 2)
26 "To song and dance we give the day" (Act 2)
27 "To song and dance we give the day" Chorus (Act 2)
28 "Fix'd in his everlasting seat" (Act 3)

Disk 20 von 41 (CD)

Samson, Hwv 57 (Samson, Hwv 57)

1 "More trouble is behind" (Act 3)
2 "Presuming slave, to move their wrath" (Act 3)
3 "Reflect then, Samson" (Act 3)
4 "With thunder arm'd great God, arise!" (Act 3)
5 "Be of good courage" (Act 3)
6 "Thus when the sun" (Act 3)
7 "With might endued above the sons of men" (Act 3)
8 "The Holy One of Israel" (Act 3)
9 "Old Manoa, with youthful steps" (Act 3)
10 "Great Dagon has subdued our foe" (Act 3)
11 "What noise of joy was that?" (Act 3)
12 "How willing my paternal love" (Act 3)
13 "Your hopes of his deliv'ry seem not vain" (Act 3)
14 "Noise call you this?" (Act 3)
15 "Where shall I run" (Act 3)
16 "Ye sons of Israel" (Act 3)
17 "Proceed we hence to find his body" (Act 3)
18 Dead March (Act 3)
19 "The body comes" (Act 3)
20 "Glorious Hero, may thy grave" (Act 3)
21 "Come, come! No time for lamentation now" (Act 3)
22 "Let the bright Seraphim" (Act 3)

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Semele, Hwv 58 (Original Version)

1 Overture (Act 1)
2 Behold! auspicious flashes arise (Act 1)
3 Lucky omens bless our rites (Act 1)
4 Daughter, obey (Act 1)
5 Ah! me! - O Jove! (Act 1)
6 The morning lark to mine accords his note (Act 1)
7 See she blushing turns her eyes (Act 1)
8 Hymen, haste, thy torch prepare (Act 1)
9 Alas! she yields, and has undone me (Act 1)
10 Why dost thou thus untimely grieve? (Act 1)
11 Avert these omens (Act 1)
12 Again auspicious flashes rise (Act 1)
13 Thy aid, pronubial Juno, Athamas implores! (Act 1)
14 Cease your vows (Act 1)
15 O Athamas, what toture hast thou borne! (Act 1)
16 Turn, hopeless lover, turn thy eyes (Act 1)
17 She weeps! (Act 1)
18 Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (Act 1)
19 Too well I see, thou wilt not understand me (Act 1)
20 You've undone me / With my life I would atone (Act 1)
21 Ah, wretched prince / Wing'd with our fears /O prodigy/See, see, Jove's Priests (Act 1)
22 Hail Cadmus! (Act 1)
23 Endless pleasure... (Act 1)

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Semele, Hwv 58 (Original Version)

1 Overture (Act 2)
2 Iris, impatient of thy stay (Act 2)
3 There from mortal cares retiring (Act 2)
4 No more - I'll hear no more! / Awake Saturnia.. (Act 2)
5 Hence, Iris, hence away (Act 2)
6 Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me? (Act 2)
7 Let me not another moment (Act 2)
8 Lay your doubts and fears aside (Act 2)
9 You are mortal and require time to rest (Act 2)
10 With fond desiring (Act 2)
11 How engaging, how endearing (Act 2)
12 Ah me! why sighs my Semele! (Act 2)
13 I must with speed amuse her (Act 2)
14 Now Love that everlasting boy invites (Act 2)
15 By my command (Act 2)
16 Where'er you walk (Act 2)
17 Dear Sister (Act 2)
18 But hark! The Heavenly Sphere (Act 2)
19 Prepare then, ye immortal choir (Act 2)
20 Bless the glad earth (Act 2)

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Semele, Hwv 58 (Original Version)

1 Overture (Act 3)
2 Somnus, awake (Act 3)
3 Leave me, loathsome light (Act 3)
4 Dull God (Act 3)
5 More sweet is that name (Act 3)
6 My will obey (Act 3)
7 Obey my will / All I must grant (Act 3)
8 My racking thoughts by no kind slumbers freed (Act 3)
9 Thus shap'd like Ino (Act 3)
10 Behold this mirror (Act 3)
11 O ecstasy of happiness (Act 3)
12 Myself I shall adore (Act 3)
13 Be wise, as you are beautiful (Act 3)
14 Conjure him by his oath (Act 3)
15 Thus let my thanks be pay'd (Act 3)
16 Rich odours fill the fragrant air (Act 3)
17 Come to my arms (Act 3)
18 O Semele! Why art thou....? / I ever am granting,.. (Act 3)
19 Speak what you desire (Act 3)
20 By that tremendous flood, I swear (Act 3)
21 You'll grant what I require? /Then cast off this human (Act 3)
22 Ah, take heed (Act 3)
23 No, no, I'll take no less (Act 3)
24 Ah, whither is she gone? (Act 3)
25 Above measure is the pleasure,which my revenge supplies (Act 3)
26 Ah me, too late I now repent (Act 3)
27 Of my ill-boding dream (Act 3)
28 Oh, terror and astonishment (Act 3)
29 How I was hence remov'd (Act 3)
30 Despair no more shall wound me (Act 3)
31 See from above the belling clouds descend (Act 3)
32 Sinfonia: Apollo come (Act 3)
33 Apollo comes, to relieve your care (Act 3)
34 Happy shall we be (Act 3)

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Hercules

1 Overture (Original Version)
2 Menuetto (Original Version)

Hercules (Original Version)

3 Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection" (Act 1)
4 Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown" (Act 1)
5 Recit. acc.: "O Hercules! why art thou absent from me" (Act 1)
6 Aria: "The world, when day's career is run" (Act 1)
7 Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best" (Act 1)
8 Aria: "I feel, I feel the god" (Act 1)
9 Recit.: "He said, the sacred fury left his breast" (Act 1)
10 Aria: "There in myrtle shades reclined" (Act 1)
11 Recit.: "Despair not; but let rising hope suspend" (Act 1)
12 Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams" (Act 1)
13 Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!" (Act 1)
14 Recit.: "Banish your fears!" (Act 1)
15 Aria: "Begone, my fears, fly, hence, away" (Act 1)
16 Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds" (Act 1)
17 Aria: "The smiling hours" (Act 1)
18 Chorus: "Let none despair" (Act 1)
19 March (Act 1)
20 Recit: "Thanks to the powers above" (Act 1)
21 Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see" (Act 1)
22 Recit.: "Now farewell, arms!" (Act 1)
23 Aria: "The god of battle" (Act 1)
24 Recit.: "Ah me! How soon the flatterer hope" (Act 1)
25 Aria: "Daughter of gods, bright liberty" (Act 1)
26 Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day" (Act 1)

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Hercules (Original Version)

1 Sinfonia (Act 2)
2 Recit.: "Why was I born a princess" (Act 2)
3 Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell" (Act 2)
4 Recit.: "It must be so" (Act 2)
5 Aria: "When beauty sorrow's liv'ry wears" (Act 2)
6 Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?" (Act 2)
7 Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove" (Act 2)
8 Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false" (Act 2)
9 Recit.: "In vain you strive" (Act 2)
10 Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest" (Act 2)
11 Recit: "She knows my passion" (Act 2)
12 Aria: "Banish love from thy breast" (Act 2)
13 Recit.: "Forgive a passion" (Act 2)
14 Aria: "From celestial seats descending" (Act 2)
15 Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires" (Act 2)
16 Recit.: "Yes, I congratulate" (Act 2)
17 Aria: "Alcides' name in latest story" (Act 2)
18 Recit.: "O glorious pattern of heroic deeds!" (Act 2)
19 Aria: "Resign thy club and lion's spoils" (Act 2)
20 Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied" (Act 2)
21 Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" (Act 2)
22 Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain" (Act 2)
23 Aria: "As stars, that rise and disappear" (Act 2)
24 Recit.: "But see, the princess Iole" (Act 2)
25 Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power" (Act 2)
26 Recit.: "Father of Hercules" (Act 2)
27 Chorus: "Love and Hymen" (Act 2)

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Hercules (Original Version)

1 Sinfonia (Act 3)
2 Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief" (Act 3)
3 Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe" (Act 3)
4 Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread" (Act 3)
5 Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this" (Act 3)
6 Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!" (Act 3)
7 Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread" (Act 3)
8 Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?" (Act 3)
9 Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!" (Act 3)
10 Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells" (Act 3)
11 Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand" (Act 3)
12 Aria: "He, who for Atlas prop'd the sky" (Act 3)
13 Recit: "Words are too faint" (Act 3)
14 Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire" (Act 3)
15 Recit.: "Ye sons of freedom" (Act 3)
16 Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong" (Act 3)

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Belshazzar

1 Overture (Original Version)

Belshazzar (Original Version)

2 "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire" (Act 1)
3 "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Act 1)
4 "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Act 1)
5 "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Act 1)
6 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Act 1)
7 "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!" (Act 1)
8 "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Act 1)
9 "Dry those unavailing tears" (Act 1)
10 "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Act 1)
11 "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Act 1)
12 "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Act 1)
13 "Can you then think it strange" (Act 1)
14 "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Act 1)
15 "My friends, be confident" (Act 1)
16 "All empires upon God depend" (Act 1)
17 "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (Act 1)
18 "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Act 1)
19 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" (Act 1)

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Belshazzar (Original Version)

1 "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Act 1)
2 "For you, my friends" (Act 1)
3 "The leafy honours of the field" (Act 1)
4 "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Act 1)
5 "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Act 1)
6 "They tell you true" (Act 1)
7 "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!" (Act 1)
8 "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Act 1)
9 "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" (Act 2)
10 "You see, my friends, a path" (Act 2)
11 "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Act 2)
12 "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (Act 2)
13 "Ye tutelar gods of our empire" (Act 2)
14 "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Act 2)
15 "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Act 2)
16 "Call all my Wise Men" (Act 2)

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Belshazzar (Original Version)

1 A Sinfony (Act 2)
2 "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (Act 2)
3 "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!" (Act 2)
4 "Oh king, live for ever!" (Act 2)
5 "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Act 2)
6 "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Act 2)
7 "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Act 2)
8 "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Act 2)
9 "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" (Act 2)
10 "Oh glorious prince!" (Act 2)
11 "Alternate hopes and fears" (Act 3)
12 "Fain would I hope" (Act 3)
13 "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Act 3)
14 "My hopes revive" (Act 3)
15 "Bel boweth down!" (Act 3)
16 "I thank thee, Sesach" (Act 3)
17 A Martial Symphony (Act 3)
18 "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (Act 3)
19 "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Act 3)
20 "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Act 3)
21 "Say, venerable prophet" (Act 3)
22 "Tell it out among the heathen" (Act 3)
23 "Yes, I will build thy city" (Act 3)
24 "I will magnify thee" (Act 3)

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Judas Maccabaeus Hwv 63

1 Overture (Original Version)

Judas Maccabaeus Hwv 63 (Original Version)

2 2. Chorus: "Mourn, ye afflicted children" (Part 1)
3 3. Recit.: "Well, may our sorrows, brethren, flow" (Part 1)
4 4. Duet: "From this dread scene" (Part 1)
5 5. Chorus: "For Sion lamentation make" (Part 1)
6 6. Recit.: "Not vain is all the storm of grief" (Part 1)
7 7. Aria: "Pious orgies, pious airs" (Part 1)
8 8. Chorus: "Oh Father, whose Almighty pow'r" (Part 1)
9 9. Recit.: "I feel, I fee the Deity within" (Part 1)
10 10. Aria: "Arm, arm, ye brave!" (Part 1)
11 11. Chorus: "We come, we come, in bright array" (Part 1)
12 12. Recit.: "'Tis well, my friends" (Part 1)
13 13. Aria: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul" (Part 1)
14 14. Recit.: "To Heav'n's Almighty king we kneel" (Part 1)
15 15. Aria: "Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure" (Part 1)
16 16. Aria: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Part 1)
17 17. Recit.: "Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire" (Part 1)
18 18. Aria: "'Tis liberty, dear liberty alone" (Part 1)
19 19. Duet: "Come, ever-smiling liberty" (Part 1)
20 20. Chorus: "Lead on, lead on! Judah disdains" (Part 1)
21 21. Recit.: "So will'd my father, now a rest" (Part 1)
22 22. Semi-chorus: "Disdainfull of danger" (Part 1)
23 23. Recit.: "Ambition! if e'er honour was thine aim" (Part 1)
24 24. Aria: "No unhallow'd desire" (Part 1)
25 25. Recit.: "Haste we, my brethren" (Part 1)
26 26. Chorus: "Hear us Lord, on thee we call" (Part 1)

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Judas Maccabaeus Hwv 63 (Original Version)

1 27. Chorus: "Fall'n is the foe" (Part 2)
2 28. Recit.: "Victorious hero! Fame shall tell" (Part 2)
3 29. Aria: "So rapid thy course is" (Part 2)
4 30. Recit.: "Well, may we hope our freedom to receive" (Part 2)
5 31./32. Duet And Chorus:"Sion now her head shall rise" (Part 2)
6 33. Recit.: "Oh let eternal honours crown his name" (Part 2)
7 34. Aria: "From mighty kings he took the spoil" (Part 2)
8 35./36. Duet And Chorus: "Hail, hail, Judea, happy land!" (Part 2)
9 37. Recit.: "Thanks to my brethren, but look up to Heav'n" (Part 2)
10 38. Aria: "How vain is man, who boasts in fight" (Part 2)
11 39. Recit.: "Oh Judas, oh my brethren!" (Part 2)
12 40./41. Aria And Chorus: "Ah! wretched, wretched Israel!" (Part 2)
13 42. Recit.: "Be comforted" (Part 2)
14 43. Aria: "The Lord worketh wonders" (Part 2)
15 44. Recit.:"My arms! - against this Gorgias will I go" (Part 2)
16 45. Aria: "Sound an alarm!" 46. Chorus: "We hear, we hear the pleasing dreadful sound" (Part 2)
17 47. Recit.: "Enough!" To Heav'n we leave the rest" (Part 2)
18 48. Aria: "With pious hearts, and brave as pious" (Part 2)
19 49. Recit.: "Ye worshippers of God" (Part 2)
20 50. Aria: "Wise men, flatt'ring, may deceive us" (Part 2)
21 51. Duet: "Oh! never, never bow we down" - 52. Chorus: We never, never will bow down (Part 2)

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Judas Maccabaeus Hwv 63 (Original Version)

1 53. Aria: "Father of Heav'n! from Thy eternal throne" (Part 3)
2 54. Recit.: "See, see yon flames" (Part 3)
3 55. Recit.: "Oh grant it, Heav'n" (Part 3)
4 56. Aria: "So shall the lute and harp awake" (Part 3)
5 57. Recit.: "From Capharsalama, on eagle wings I fly" (Part 3)
6 58. Chorus Of Youth: "See, the conqu'ring hero comes!"- Chorus Of Virgins: "See, the godlike youth advance!" - Chorus:)
7 59. March (Part 3)
8 60. Chorus: "Sing unto God" (Part 3)
9 61. Recit.: " Sweet flow the strains" (Part 3)
10 62. Aria: "With honour let desert be crown'd" (Part 3)
11 63. Recit: "Peace to my countrymen" (Part 3)
12 64. Chorus:"To our great God be all the honours giv'n" (Part 3)
13 65. Recit.: "Again to earth let gratitude descend" (Part 3)
14 66. Aria, Duett:"Oh lovely peace, with plenty crown'd" (Part 3)
15 67. Aria: "Rejoice, oh Judah! and in songs devine" (Part 3)
16 68. Chorus: "Hallelujah! Amen!" (Part 3)

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Solomon Hwv 67

1 Overture (Original Version)

Solomon Hwv 67 (Original Version)

2 " Your harps and cymbals" (Act 1)
3 " Praise ye the Lord " (Act 1)
4 " With pious heart " (Act 1)
5 " Almighty Power " (Act 1)
6 Imperial Salomon (Act 1)
7 Sacred raptures (Act 1)
8 " Throughout the land " (Act 1)
9 Bless'd be the Lord (Act 1)
10 What tho' I trace (Act 1)
11 " And see my Queen " (Act 1)
12 " Bless'd the day " (Act 1)
13 Thou fair inhabitant of Nile (Act 1)
14 Welcome as the dawn of day (Act 1)
15 Vain are the transient beauties (Act 1)
16 Indulge thy faith (Act 1)
17 My blooming fair (Act 1)
18 Haste to the cedar grove (Act 1)
19 When thou art absent (Act 1)
20 With thee th'unshelter'd moor (Act 1)
21 Search round the world (Act 1)
22 " May no rash intruder " (Act 1)

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Solomon Hwv 67 (Original Version)

1 " From the censer " (Act 2)
2 Prais'd be the Lord (Act 2)
3 When the sun o'er yonder hills (Act 2)
4 Great prince (Act 2)
5 Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king (Act 2)
6 " My sovereign liege " (Act 2)
7 Words are weak (Act 2)
8 What says the other (Act 2)
9 Thy sentence, great king (Act 2)
10 Withhold, withhold the executing hand! (Act 2)
11 Can I see my infant gor'd (Act 2)
12 " Israel' attend " (Act 2)
13 " Thrice bless'd be the king " (Act 2)
14 " From the east unto the west " (Act 2)
15 From morn to eve (Act 2)
16 See the tall palm (Act 2)
17 No more shall armed bands (Act 2)
18 Beneath the vine (Act 2)
19 " Swell, swell the full chorus " (Act 2)

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Solomon Hwv 67 (Original Version)

1 Sinfony (Act 3)
2 " From Arabia's spicy shores " (Act 3)
3 Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Act 3)
4 Sweep, sweep the string (Act 3)
5 Music, spread thy voice around (Act 3)
6 " Now a diff'rent measure" - " Shake the dome " (Act 3)
7 Then at once from rage remove (Act 3)
8 Draw the tear from hopeless love (Act 3)
9 Next the tortur'd soul release (Act 3)
10 Thus rolling surge rise (Act 3)
11 " Thy harmony's divine " (Act 3)
12 Pious king (Act 3)
13 Thrice happy king (Act 3)
14 Golden columns (Act 3)
15 " Praise the Lord " (Act 3)
16 Gold now is common (Act 3)
17 How green our fertile pastures look! (Act 3)
18 May peace in Salem (Act 3)
19 Will the sun forget to streak (Act 3)
20 Adieu, fair queen (Act 3)
21 Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows (Act 3)
22 The name of the wicked (Act 3)

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Theodora 1750 (Original Version)

1 1a. Ouverture (Overture)
2 1b. Trio (Overture)
3 1c. Courante (Overture)

Theodora 1750 (alternative Scene 2/Part II)

4 2. Recitative: "'Tis Dioclesian's natal day" Valens - Sc.1 (Part 1)

Theodora 1750 (Original Version)

5 3. Aria: "Go, my faithful soldier, go" Valens - Sc.1 (Part 1)
6 4. Chorus of Heathens: "And draw a blessing down" - Sc.1 (Part 1)
7 5. Recitative: "Vouchsafe, dread Sir" Didymus, Valens - Sc.1 (Part 1)
8 6. Aria: "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" Valens - Sc.1 (Part 1)
9 7. Chorus of Heathens: "For ever thus stand fix'd" - Sc.1 (Part 1)
10 8. Recitative: "Most cruel edict" Didymus - Sc.2 (Part 1)
11 9. Aria: "The raptur'd soul" Didymus - Sc.2 (Part 1)
12 10. Recitative: "I know thy virtues" Septimius - Sc.2 (Part 1)
13 11. Aria: "Descend, kind Pity" Septimius - Sc.2 (Part 1)
14 12. Recitative: "Though hard, my friends" Theodora Sc.3 (Part 1)
15 13. Aria: "Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu" Theodora - Sc.3 (Part 1)
16 14. Recitative: "Oh bright example" Irene - Sc.3 (Part 1)
17 15. Aria: "Bane of virtue" Irene - Sc.3 (Part 1)
18 16. Chorus of Christians: "Come, mighty Father" - Sc.3 (Part 1)
19 17. Recitative: "Fly, fly, my brethren" Messenger, Irene - Sc.4 (Part 1)
20 18. Aria: "As with rosy steps the morn" Irene - Sc.4 (Part 1)
21 19. Chorus: "All pow'r in heav'n" - Sc.4 (Part 1)
22 20. Recitative: "Mistaken wretches!" Septimius -Sc.5 (Part 1)
23 21. Aria: "Dread the fruits of Christian folly" Septimius - Sc.5 (Part 1)
24 22. Recitative: "Deluded mortal"/Accompagnato: "O worse than death indeed" Theodora, Septimius - Sc.5 (Part 1)
25 23. Aria: "Angels, ever bright and fair" Theodora - Sc.5 (Part 1)
26 24. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!" Didymus, Irene - Sc.6 (Part 1)
27 25. Air: "Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care" Didymus - Sc.6 (Part 1)
28 26. Recitative: "Oh love! how great thy pow'r" Irene - Sc.6 (Part 1)
29 27. Chorus: "Go, gen'rous pious youth" - Sc.6 (Part 1)

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Theodora 1750 (Original Version)

1 28. Recitative: "Ye men of Antioch" Valens - Sc.1 (Part 2)
2 29. Chorus of Heathens: "Queen of summer" - Sc.1 (Part 2)
3 30. Aria: "Wide spread his name" Valens - Sc.1 (Part 2)
4 31. Recitative: "Return, Septimius" Valens - Sc.1 (Part 2)
5 32. Chorus of Heathens: "Venus laughing from the skies" - Sc.1 (Part 2)
6 33. Sinfony - Sc.2 (Part 2)
7 34. Recitative: "Oh thous bright sun!" Theodora-Sc.2 (Part 2)
8 35. Aria: "With darkness deep" Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 2)
9 36. Sinfony original version - Sc.2 (Part 2)
10 37. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 2)
11 38. Aria: "O! that I on wings could rise" Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 2)
12 39. Recitative: "Long have I known" Didymus, Septimius - Sc.3 (Part 2)
13 40. Aria: "Though the honours, that Flora" Septimius - Sc.3 (Part 2)
14 41. Recitative: "O save her then" Didymus, Septimius - Sc.3 (Part 2)
15 42. Aria: "Deeds of kindness to display" Didymus - Sc.3 (Part 2)
16 43. Recitative: "The clouds begin to veil" Irene - Sc.4 (Part 2)
17 44. Aria: "Defend her, Heav'n" Irene - Sc.4 (Part 2)
18 45. Recitative: "Or lull'd with grief" Didymus -Sc.5 (Part 2)
19 46. Aria: "Sweet rose and lily" Didymus - Sc.5 (Part 2)
20 47. Recitative: "O save me, Heav'n"Theodora, Didymus - Sc.5 (Part 2)
21 48. Aria: "the pilgrim's home" Theodora - Sc.5 (Part 2)
22 49. Accompagnato: "Forbid it, Heav'n!"/Rec.: "Ah! what is liberty" Didymus, Theodora - Sc.5 (Part 2)
23 50. Duet: "To thee, thou glorious son of worth" Theodora, Didymus - Sc.5 (Part 2)
24 51. Recitative: "'Tis night" Irene - Sc.6 (Part 2)
25 52. Chorus of Christians: "He saw the lovely youth" - Sc.6 (Part 2)

Theodora 1750 (alternative Scene 2/Part II)

26 34a. Recitative: "Oh thou bright sun!" Theodora - alternative ending (Part 2)

Theodora 1750

27 36a. Sinfony - alternative version (alternative Scene 2/Part II)

Theodora 1750 (Original Version)

28 37. Recitative: "But why art thou disquieted?" Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 2)
29 38. Aria: "O! that I on wings could rise" Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 2)

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Theodora 1750 (Original Version)

1 53. Aria: "Lord, to thee each night and day" Irene - Sc.1 (Part 3)
2 54. Recitative: "But see, the good, the virtuous" Irene - Sc.2 (Part 3)
3 55. Aria: "When sunk in anguish and despair" Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 3)
4 56. Chorus of Christians and Theodora: "Blest be the hand" Chorus, Theodora - Sc.2 (Part 3)
5 57. Recitative: "Undaunted in the court" Messenger, Irene/Accompagnato: "O my Irene, Heav'n is kind" Theodora - Sc.3)
6 58. Duet: "Whither, Princess, do you fly?" Irene, Theodora - Sc.3 (Part 3)
7 59. Recitative: "She's gone disdaining liberty and life" Irene - Sc.3 (Part 3)
8 60. Aria: "New scenes of joy come crowding on" Irene - Sc.3 (Part 3)
9 61. Recitative: "Is it a Christian virtue then"-Sc.4/"Be that my doom" Valens, Didymus, Theodora, Septimius - Sc.5)
10 62. Aria: "From virtue springs each gen'rous deed" Septimius - Sc.5 (Part 3)
11 63. Aria: "Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless pray'r" Valens - Sc.5 (Part 3)
12 64. Recitative: "'Tis kind, my friends" Didymus, Theodora - Sc.5 (Part 3)
13 65. Chorus of Heathens: "How strange their ends" - Sc.5 (Part 3)
14 66. Recitative: "On me your frowns" Didymus, Theodora, Valens - Sc.5 (Part 3)
15 67. Aria: "Ye ministers of justice" Valens - Sc.5 (Part 3)
16 68. Recitative: "And must such beauty suffer" Didymus, Theodora, Septimius - Sc.6 (Part 3)
17 69. Aria and Duet: "Streams of pleasure ever flowing"/ "Thither let our hearts aspire" Didymus, Theodora - Sc.6 (Part 3)
18 70. Recitative: "Ere this their doom is past" Irene- Sc.7 (Part 3)
19 71. Chorus of Christians: "O Love divine" - Sc.7 (Part 3)

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Jephtha, Hwv 70

1 Overture - Menuet (Original Version)

Jephtha, Hwv 70 (Original Version)

2 "It must be so: or these vile Ammonites" (Act 1)
3 "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" (Act 1)
4 "No more to Ammon's god and king" (Act 1)
5 "But Jephta comes" (Act 1)
6 "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" (Act 1)
7 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephta"/"In gentle murmurs will I mourn" (Act 1)
8 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis"/"Dull delay, in piercing anguish" (Act 1)
9 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls"/"Take the heart you fondly gave" (Act 1)
10 "I go. My soul, inspir'd by thy command"/"These labours past, how happy we!" (Act 1)
11 "What mean these doubtful fancies" (Act 1)
12 "O God, behold our sore distress" (Act 1)
13 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads"/"Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (Act 1)
14 "Say, my dear mother" (Act 1)
15 "The smiling dawn of happy days" (Act 1)
16 "Such, Jephta, was the haughty king's reply" (Act 1)
17 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" (Act 1)

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Jephtha, Hwv 70 (Original Version)

1 "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" (Act 2)
2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" (Act 2)
3 "Up the dreadful steep ascending" (Act 2)
4 "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens"/"Tune the soft melodious lute" (Act 2)
5 "Heav'n smiles once more on his repentant people"/"His mighty arm, with sudden blow" (Act 2)
6 "In glory high, in might serene" (Act 2)
7 Symphony - "Hail, glorious conqueror" (Act 2)
8 "Welcome as the cheerful light" (Act 2)
9 "Horror! confusion!"/"Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" (Act 2)
10 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" (Act 2)
11 "First perish thou, and perish all the world" (Act 2)
12 "If such thy cruel purpose"/"On me let blind mistaken zeal" (Act 2)
13 "O spare your daughter" (Act 2)
14 "Such news flies swift" (Act 2)
15 "Happy they! this vital breath" (Act 2)
16 "Deeper, and deeper still" (Act 2)
17 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" (Act 2)

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Jephtha, Hwv 70 (Original Version)

1 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" (Act 3)
2 "Waft her, angels, through the skies" (Act 3)
3 "Ye sacred priests"/"Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" (Act 3)
4 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" (Act 3)
5 Symphony (Act 3)
6 "Rise, Jephta, and ye rev'rend priests" (Act 3)
7 "Happy, Iphis shalt thou live" (Act 3)
8 "For ever blessed be Thy holy name" (Act 3)
9 "Theme sublime of endless praise" (Act 3)
10 "Let me congratulate this happy turn"/"Laud her, all ye virgin train" (Act 3)
11 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms"/"Sweet as sight (Act 3)
12 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence"/"All that is in Hamor mine" (Act 3)
13 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" (Act 3)