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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 - Symphony (11:29) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 1. Chorus. "How excellent thy Name, O Lord" (2:31) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 2. Air. "An infant rais'd by thy command" (1:09) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 3. Trio. "Along the Monster Atheist strode" (1:11) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 4. Chorus. "The Youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord" (2:02) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 5. Chorus. "How excellent thy Name, O Lord" (2:24) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 6. Recitative. "He comes" - 7. Air. "O Godlike Youth!" (3:21) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 8. Recitative. "Behold, O King, the brave victorious Youth" (0:46) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 9. Air. "O King, your Favours with Delight I take" (4:19) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 10. Recitative. "O early Piety!" (0:21) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 11. Air. "What abject Thoughts a Prince can have" (2:06) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 12. Recitative. "Yet think, on whom this Honour you bestow" (0:19) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 13. Aria. "Birth and Fortune I despise!" (4:37) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 14. Recitative. "Go on, illustrious Pair!" (0:20) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 15. Air. "Why yet thy Tide of Blood runs high" (2:26) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 16. Recitative. "Thou, Merab, first in Birth" (0:21) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 17. Air. "My Soul rejects the Thought with Scorn" (1:14) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 18. Air. "See, see, with what a scornful Air" (1:10) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 19. Air. "Ah! lovely Youth!" (0:55) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 20. Symphony (1:06) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 21. Recitative. "Already see" (0:19) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 22. Chorus. "Welcome, welcome mighty King!" (1:30) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 23. Accompagnato. "What do I hear?" (0:24) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 24. Chorus. "David his Ten Thousands slew" (0:32) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 25. Accompagnato. "To him Ten thousands!" (0:21) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 26. Air. "With Rage I shall burst his Praises to hear!" (1:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 27. Recitative. "Imprudent Women!" (0:44) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 28. Air. "Fell Rage and black Despair possessed" (2:43) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 29. Recitative. "This but the smallest Part of Harmony" (0:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 30. Accompagnato. "By thee this Universal Frame" (2:03) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 31. Recitative. "Rack'd with Infernal Pains" (0:22) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 32. Air. "O Lord, whose Mercies numberless" (3:41) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 33. Symphony (1:28) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 34. Recitative. "'Tis all in vain" (0:14) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 35. Air. "A Serpent in my Bosom warm'd" (1:54) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 36. Recitative. "Has he escap'd my Rage?" (0:27) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 37. Air. "Capricious Man" (5:51) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 38. Accompagnato. "O Filial Piety!" (1:19) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 39. Air. "No, no cruel Father, no" (1:35) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 40. Air. "O Lord, whose Providence Ever wakes for their Defence" (1:41) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1 - 41. Chorus. "Preserve him for the Glory of thy Name" (2:37) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 42. Chorus. "Envy! Eldestborn of Hell!" (2:09) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 43. Recitative. "Ah! dearest Friend" (0:33) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 44. Air. "But sooner Jordan's Stream, I swear" (2:06) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 45. Recitative. "O strange Vicissitude!" (0:48) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 46. Air. "Such haughty Beauties" (4:12) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 47. Recitative. "My Father comes" (0:19) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 48. Recitative. "Hast thou obey'd my Orders" (0:39) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 49. Air. "Sin not, o King, against the Youth" (1:57) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 50. Air. "As great Jehovah lives" (1:03) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 51. Air. "From Cities storm'd, and Battles won" (1:56) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 52. Recitative. "Appear, my Friend" (0:31) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 53. Air. "Your Words, O King" (0:59) -- Handel: Recit. (Saul): Yes, he shall wed my daughter! (0:29) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 55. Recitative. "A Father's Will" (0:30) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 56. Duet. "O Fairest of ten thousand Fair" (2:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 57. Chorus. "Is there a Man" (1:21) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 58. Symphony (6:04) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 59. Recitative. "Thy Father is as cruel" (0:35) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 60. Duet. "At Persecution I can laugh" (1:15) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 61. Recitative. "Whom dost thou seek?" (0:41) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 62. Air. "No, no, let the Guilty tremble" (1:31) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 63. Recitative. "Mean as he was" (0:55) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 64. Air. "Author of Peace" (3:28) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 65. Symphony (1:05) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 66. Accompagnat. "The Time at length is come" (0:37) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 67. Recitative. "Where is the Son of Jesse" (1:04) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2 - 68. Chorus. "O fatal Consequence of Rage" (4:29) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 69. Accompagnato. "Wretch that I am" (2:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 70. Accompagnato. "'Tis said, here lives a Woman" (0:51) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 71. Recitative. "With me what would'st thou?" (1:00) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 72. Air: Infernal Spirits (2:14) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 73. Accompagnato. "Why hast thou forc'd me from the Realms of Peace" (3:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 74. Symphony (0:32) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 75. Recitative. "Whence comest thou?" (1:15) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 76. Air. "Impious Wretch, of Race accurst" (1:50) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 77. March (4:30) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 78. Chorus. "Mourn Israel" (4:38) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 79. Air. "O let it not in Gath be heard" (2:14) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 80. Air. "From this unhappy Day" (2:58) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 81. Air. "Brave Jonathan his Bow ne'er drew" (2:29) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 82. Chorus. "Eagles were not so swift as they" (0:18) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 83. Air. "In sweetest Harmony" (4:13) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 84. Solo and Chorus. "O Fatal Day" (4:30) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 85. Recitative. "Ye Men of Judah, weep no more" (0:29) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3 - 86. Chorus. "Gird on thy Sword" (5:01)