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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I: Overture. [Grave] – Allegro (2:51) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 1, Chorus. Flush'd with Conquest, Fir'd by Mithra (Asiates) (3:11) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 2, Recit. Thus Far, Ye Glorious Partners of the War (Alexander/Jonathan) (1:28) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 3, Air. Great Author of This Harmony (Jonathan) (3:17) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 4. Flourish of Trumpets (0:11) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 5, Recit. And Thus Let Happy Egypt's King (Ptolomee) (0:24) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 6, Air. Thrice Happy the Monarch, Whom Nations Content (Ptolomee) (3:43) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 7, Recit. Congratulation to Our Father's Friend (Cleopatra) (0:25) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 8, Air. Hark! Hark! He Strikes the Golden Lyre (Cleopatra) (5:56) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 9, Recit. Be It My Chief Ambition There to Rise (Alexander) (0:14) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 10, Air. Fair Virtue Shall Charm Me (Alexander) (2:24) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 11, Chorus. Ye Happy Nations Round (Asiates) (3:01) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 1, Recit. My Jonathan (Alexander) (0:35) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 2, Air. Oh, What Resistless Charms Are Giv'n (Alexander) (4:13) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 1, Air. Subtle Love, with Fancy Viewing (Cleopatra) (4:55) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 2, Recit. Aspasia, I Know Not What to Call (Cleopatra) (0:45) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 3, Air. How Happy Should We Mortals Prove (Cleopatra) (2:26) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 4, Recit. Check Not the Pleasing Accents of Thy Tongue (Aspasia) (0:25) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 5, Air. So Shall the Sweet Attractive Smile (Aspasia) (2:40) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 6, Recit. How Blissful State! (Cleopatra/Aspasia) (0:26) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 7, Duet. O What Pleasures, Past Expressing (Cleopatra/Aspasia) (3:00) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 1, Recit. Why Hangs This Heavy Gloom upon the Brow (Jonathan/Alexander) (1:00) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 2, Air. Heroes May Boast Their Mighty Deed (Alexander) (4:52) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 5: No. 1, Recit. Ye Sons of Judah, with High Festival (Jonathan) (0:31) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 5: No. 2, Air with Chorus. Great God, from Whom All Blessings Spring (Jonathan/Israelites) (4:38) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 1, Air. Kind Hope, Thou Universal Friend (Alexander) (6:04) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 2, Recit. Long, Long and Happy Live the King! (Jonathan/Alexander) (0:40) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 3, Air. O Mithra, with Thy Brightest Beams (Alexander) (4:17) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 4, Recit. Stay, My Dread Sovereign (Sycophant Courtier/Alexander/Jonathan) (1:39) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 5, Air. Mighty Love Now Calls to Arm (Alexander) (2:36) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 6, Air. Hateful Man! Thy Sland'rous Tongue (Jonathan) (4:20) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 7, Chorus. O Calumny, on Virtue Waiting (Israelites) (4:21) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 1, Recit. Ah! Whence These Dire Forebodings of the Mind? (Cleopatra) (0:39) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 2, Air. Tossed from Thought to Thought I Rove (Cleopatra) (6:29) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 3, Recit. Give to the Winds, Fair Princess, These Vain Doubts (Aspasia) (0:22) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 4, Air. Love, Glory, Ambition, Whate'er Can Inspire (Aspasia) (2:50) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No., Recit. Thus Far My Wishes Thrive (Ptolomee) (0:54) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 1, Air. Virtue, Thou Ideal Name (Ptolomee) (3:43) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 2, Accompagnato. Ye Happy People, with Loud Accents Speak (Jonathan) (0:37) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 1, Soli with Chorus. Triumph Hymen in the Pair (2:40) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 2, Recit. Glad Time, at Length, Hath Reach'd the Happy Point (Alexander/Cleopatra) (0:48) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 3, Duet. Hail Wedded Love, Mysterious Law! (Alexander/Cleopatra) (3:39) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 4, Chorus. Hymen, Fair Urania's Son (Asiates) (2:38) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III: Introduction. Sinfonia (1:15) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 1: No. 1, Recit. 'Tis True, Instinctive Nature Seldom Points (Cleopatra) (0:29) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 1: No. 2, Air with Chorus. Here Amid the Shady Woods (Cleopatra/Ruffians) (4:17) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 1, Recit. Ah! Was It Not My Cleopatra's Voice? (Alexander) (0:41) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 2, Air. Pow'rful Guardians of All Nature (Alexander) (2:53) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 3, Recit. Treach'ry, O King, Unheard of Treachery (Jonathan/Alexander/Aspasia) (1:23) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 4, Air. Fury, with Red Sparkling Eyes (Alexander) (6:24) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 5, Recit. Gods! Can There Be a More Afflicting Sight (Aspasia) (0:24) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 6, Air. Strange Reverse of Human Fate (Aspasia) (2:50) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 7, Recit. May He Return with Laurel'd Victory (Jonathan) (0:26) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 8, Air. To God Who Made the Radiant Sun (Jonathan) (3:13) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 9, Chorus. Sun, Moon, and Stars, and All Ye Host of Heav'n (Israelites) (2:51) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 3: No. 1, Recit. Yes He Was False, My Daughter, False to You (Jonathan/Cleopatra) (1:19) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 3: No. 2, Accompagnato. Ungrateful Child, by Ev'ry Sacred Pow'r (Ptolomee) (0:26) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 3: No. 3, Air. O Sword, and Thou, All-Daring Hand (Ptolomee) (2:50) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 1, Accompagnato. Shall Cleopatra Ever Smile Again? (Cleopatra) (0:43) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 2, Recit. Ungrateful Tidings to the Royal Ear (Messenger) (1:23) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 3, Air. O Take Me from This Hateful Light (Cleopatra) (5:17) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 4, Recit. Forgive, O Queen, the Messenger of Ill! (Second Messenger/Cleopatra) (1:23) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 5, Accompagnato. Calm Thou My Soul (Cleopatra) (0:47) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 6, Air. Convey Me to Some Peaceful Shore (Cleopatra) (2:41) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 5: No. 1, Recit. Mysterious Are Thy Ways, O Providence! (Jonathan) (1:20) -- Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 5: No 2, Chorus with Solo. Ye Servants of th' Eternal King (Jonathan/Israelites) (3:20)