Alexander Balus

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Trackliste Alexander Balus (Oratorium) (Gesamtaufnahme) Händel, Georg Friedrich Ouverture (1. Akt) Chorus: "Flush'd with conquest, fir'd by Mithra" Recitative: "Thus far, ye glorious partners of he war" Air: "Great Author of this harmony" Flourish of trumpets Recitative: "And thus let happy Egypt's king" Air: "Thrice happy the monarch, whom Aria: Why do the Nations contend" Recitative: "Congretulation to our father's friend" Air: "Hark! hark! he strikes the golden lyre" Recitative: "Be it my chief ambition there to rise" Air: "Fair virtue shall charm me" Chorus: "Ye happy nations round" Recitative: "My Jonathan" Air: "Oh, what resistless charms are giv'n" Air: "Subtle love, with fancy viewing" Recitative: "Aspasia, I know not what to call" Air: "How happy should we mortals prove" Recitative: "Check not the pleasing accents of thy tongue" Air: "So shall the sweet attractive smile" Recitative: "How blissful state!" Duet: "O what pleasures, past expressing" Recitative: "Why hangs this heavy gloom upon the brow" Air: "Heroes may boast thei mighty deeds" Recitative: "Y sons of Judah, with high festival" Air: "Great God, from whom all blessings spring" Air: "Kind hope, thou universal friend" (2. Akt) Recitative: "Long, long and happy live the king!" Air: "O Mithra, with thy brighest beams" Recitative: "Stay, my dread sovereign" Air: "Mighty love now calls to arm" Air: "Hateful man! thy sland'rous tongue" Chorus: "O calumny, on virtue waiting" Recitative: "Ah! whence these dire forebodings of the mind?" Air: "Tossed from thought to thought I rove" Recitative: "Give to the winds, fair princess, there vain doubts" Air: "Love, glory, ambition, whate'er can inspire" Recitative: "thus far my wishes thrive" Air: "Virtue, thou ideal name" Accompagnato: "Ye happy people, with loud accents speak" Soli / Chorus: "Triumph Hymen in the pair" Recitative: Glad time, at length, hath reach'd the happy point" Duet: "Hail wedded love, mysterious law!" Chorus: "Hymen, fair Urania's son Sinfonia (3. Akt) Recitative: "Tis true, instinctive nature seldom points" Air: "Here amid the shady woods" Recitative: "Ah! was is not my Cleopatra's voice?" Air: "Pow'rful guardians of all nature" Recitative: "Treach'ry, O king, unheard of treachery" Air: "Fury, with red sparkling eyes" Recitative: "Gods! can there be a more afflictiong sight" Air: "Strange reverse of human fate" Recitative: "May he returns with laurel'd victory" Air: "To God who made the radiant sun" Chorus: "Sun, moon, and stars, and all ye Host of Heav'n Recitative: "Yes he was false, my daughter, false to you" Accompagnato: "Ungrateful child, by ev'ry sacred pow'r" Air: "O sword, and thou, all-daring hand" Accompagnato: "Shall Cleopatra ever smile again?" Recitative: "Ungrateful tidings to the royal ear" Air: "O take me from this hateful light" Recitative: "Forgive, O queen, the messenger of ill!" Accompagnato: "Calm thou my soul" Air: "Convey me to some peaceful shore" Recitative: "Mysterious are thy ways, O Providence!" Chorus: "Ye servants of th' eternal King"