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Belshazzar : Overture to Act 1 (4:31) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Vain, fluctuating state" [Nitocris] (5:06) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Thou, God most high" [Nitocris] (4:06) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "The fate of Babylon" [Nitocris] "Oh much belov'd" [Nitocris, Daniel] (1:19) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Lament not thus" [Daniel] (4:49) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold, by Persia's hero made" [Chorus] (2:57) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Well may they laugh" [Gobrias, Cyrus] "Oh memory!" [Gobrias] (1:29) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief" [Gobrias] (3:10) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Dry those anavailing tears" [Cyrus] (2:37) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias] (4:08) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Behold the monstrous human beast" [Gobrias] (3:16) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus] (4:50) -- Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "All empires" [Chorus] (3:39) -- Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 1 "Oh sacred oracles" [Daniel] (5:18) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Rejoice, my countrymen" "For long ago" "Thus saith the Lord" [Daniel] (3:08) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" [Chorus] (4:35) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Let festal joy" [Belshazzar] (4:54) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "For you, my friends" [Belshazzar, Nitocris] (1:02) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "The leafy honours" [Nitocris] (8:18) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "It is the custom" [Belshazzar, Nitocris] (1:55) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Recall, oh king!" [Chorus] (3:00) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "They tell you true" [Nitocris, Belshazzar] (1:36) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "Oh dearer than my life" [Nitocris, Belshazzar] (6:43) -- Belshazzar : Act 1 "By slow degrees" [Chorus] (4:38) -- Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus] (6:31) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "You see, my friends" "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" [Cyrus] (5:26) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "To arms, to arms!" [Chorus] (0:30) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye tutelar gods" [Chorus] (2:56) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Let the deep bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where is the God" [Chorus] "Help, help the king!" [Chorus, Belshazzar] "Call all my wise men" [Belshazzar] (5:46) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Ye sages!" [Belshazzar] "Alas! too hard a task" [Chorus] (2:42) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh misery!" [Chorus] (1:33) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh king" [Nitocris] "Art thou that Daniel" [Belshazzar] (1:44) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris] (4:41) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Regard, oh son" [Nitocris] (6:24) -- Belshazzar : Act 2 "Oh God of Truth!" "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" [Cyrus] (5:29) -- Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "Oh glorious prince!" [Chorus] (4:46) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Alternate hopes and fears" [Nitocris] (4:32) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel] (2:20) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "My hopes revive" [Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger] (2:15) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Bel boweth down" [Chorus] (1:35) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "I thank thee, Sesach" [Belshazzar] A Marital Symphony (2:14) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "To pow'r immortal" [Gobrias] (2:14) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Be it thy care" "Destructive War" [Cyrus] (3:02) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Great Victor" [Nitocris, Cyrus] (5:16) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Say, venerable prophet" [Cyrus, Daniel] (0:49) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "Tell it out" [Chorus] "Yes, I will build the city" [Cyrus] (3:32) -- Belshazzar : Act 3 "I will magnify thee" [Chorus, Belshazzar, Nitocris, Cyrus, Daniel, Gobrias, Arioch, Messenger] (5:34) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Overture - Menuet (6:52) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "It must be so - or these vile Ammonites" "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" [Zebul] (6:45) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "No more to Ammon's god and king" [Chorus] (2:46) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha] (5:07) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" [Storge] (5:55) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" [Hamor] (5:07) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" "Take the heart you fondly gave" [Iphis] (4:26) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "I go; my soul, inspir'd by thy command" [Hamor] "These labours past, how happy we!" [Iphis] (6:53) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "What mean these doubtful fancies" "If, Lord, susain'd" "'Tis said" [Jephtha] (1:48) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "O God, behold our sore distress" [Chorus] (4:06) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" [Storge] (5:12) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storge] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis] (4:13) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply" [Zebul, Jephtha] (0:30) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 1 "When his loud voice in thunder spoke" [Chorus] (4:29) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Glad tidings of great joy to thee, dear Iphis" [Hamor] (1:05) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Cherub and Seraphim, unbodied forms" [Chorus] (3:36) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Up the dreadful steep ascending" [Hamor] (4:57) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "'Tis well. Haste, haste, ye maidens" "Tune the soft melodious lute" [Iphis] (4:37) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" "Freedom now once more possessing" [Zebul] (3:44) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Zebul, thy deeds were valiant" "His mighty arm, with sudden blow" [Jephtha] (6:30) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "In glory high, in might serene" [Chorus] (2:24) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 Symphony (1:23) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Hail, glorious conqueror!" "Welcome as the cheerful light" [Iphis, Chorus] (4:55) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Horror! confusion!" "Open thy marble jaws, O tomb" [Jephtha] (4:18) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Why is my brother thus afflicted" [Zebul, Jephtha] (1:11) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "First perish thou, and perish all the world!... Let other creatures die" [Storge] (2:51) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "If such thy cruel purpose" "On me let blind mistaken zeal" [Hamor] (1:52) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "O spare your daughter!" [Zebul, Storge, Hamor, Jephtha] (2:33) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Such news fly swift" "Happy they! this vital breath" [Iphis] (5:18) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "Deeper and deeper still" [Jephtha] (3:40) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 2 "How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees!" [Chorus] (6:43) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" "A father, offering up" "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Jephtha] (6:20) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye sacred priests" "Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods" [Iphis] (5:40) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Doubtful fear and rev'rent awe" [Chorus] (3:07) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "And they determin'd will declare" Symphony [Chorus] (1:53) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel] (5:54) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "For ever blessed be thy holy name" [Jephtha] (1:48) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Theme sublime of endless praise" [Chorus] (3:09) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Let me congratulate this happy turn" "Laud her, all ye virgin train" [Zebul] (2:39) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storge] (2:32) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety" "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" [Hamor] (7:36) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "My faithful Hamor, may that Providence" "Freely I to Heaven resign" [Iphis] (5:59) -- Jephtha HWV70 : Act 3 "Ye house of Gilead, with one voice" [Chorus] (3:26)