Handel Alexander Balus (Oratorio) - King'S Consort - Music - Hyperion Records - 0034571172415 - October 1, 1997
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Handel Alexander Balus (Oratorio)


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Alexander Balus Oratorio is an album by G. F. Handel, released in 1997. Alexander Balus Oratorio includes a.o. the following tracks: "Dawson, Lynne - Alexander Balus (oratorium) (gesam", "Chorus: Flush'd With Conquest, Fir'd By Mithra", "Recitative: Congretulation To Our Father's Friend", "Air: Hark! Hark! He Strikes The Golden Lyre" and more. The album is a classical 2-CD.


W/ROBERT KING, KING'S CONSORT

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 2
Composer Händel
Released October 1, 1997
Original release date 2015
EAN/UPC 0034571172415
Label Hyperion Records CDA67241/2
Genre Classical
Dimensions 125 × 140 × 12 mm   ·   260 g   (Weight (estimated))

Track list

  1. 1.   CD  

    1. Dawson, Lynne - Alexander Balus (Oratorium) (Gesam
    2. Ouverture (1. Akt)
    3. Chorus: Flush'd with Conquest, Fir'd by Mithra
    4. Recitative: Thus Far, Ye Glorious Partners of He
    5. Air: Great Author of This Harmony
    6. Flourish of Trumpets
    7. Recitative: and Thus Let Happy Egypt's King
    8. Air: Thrice Happy the Monarch, Whom Aria: Why Do
    9. Recitative: Congretulation to Our Father's Friend
    10. Air: Hark! Hark! He Strikes the Golden Lyre
    11. Recitative: Be It My Chief Ambition There to Rise
    12. Air: Fair Virtue Shall Charm Me
    13. Chorus: Ye Happy Nations Round
    14. Recitative: My Jonathan
    15. Air: Oh, What Resistless Charms Are Giv'n
    16. Air: Subtle Love, with Fancy Viewing
    17. Recitative: Aspasia, I Know Not What to Call
    18. Air: How Happy Should We Mortals Prove
    19. Recitative: Check Not the Pleasing Accents of Thy
    20. Air: So Shall the Sweet Attractive Smile
    21. Recitative: How Blissful State!
    22. Duet: O What Pleasures, Past Expressing
    23. Recitative: Why Hangs This Heavy Gloom Upon the B
    24. Air: Heroes May Boast Thei Mighty Deeds
    25. Recitative: Y Sons of Judah, with High Festival
    26. Air: Great God, from Whom All Blessings Spring
    27. Air: Kind Hope, Thou Universal Friend (2. Akt)
    28. Recitative: Long, Long & Happy Live the King!
    29. Air: O Mithra, with Thy Brighest Beams
    30. Recitative: Stay, My Dread Sovereign
    31. Air: Mighty Love Now Calls to Arm
    32. Air: Hateful Man! Thy Sland'rous Tongue
  2. 2.   CD  

    1. Chorus: O Calumny, on Virtue Waiting
    2. Recitative: Ah! Whence These Dire Forebodings of
    3. Air: Tossed from Thought to Thought I Rove
    4. Recitative: Give to the Winds, Fair Princess, the
    5. Air: Love, Glory, Ambition, Whate'er Can Inspire
    6. Recitative: Thus Far My Wishes Thrive
    7. Air: Virtue, Thou Ideal Name
    8. Accompagnato: Ye Happy People, with Loud Accents
    9. Soli / Chorus: Triumph Hymen in the Pair
    10. Recitative: Glad Time, at Lenght, Hath Reach'd the
    11. Duet: Hail Wedded Love, Mysterious Law!
    12. Chorus: Hymen, Fair Urania's Son
    13. Sinfonia (3. Akt)
    14. Recitative: Tis True, Instinctive Nature Seldom P
    15. Air: Here Amid the Shady Woods
    16. Recitative: Ah! Was is Not My Cleopatra's Voice?
    17. Air: Pow'rful Guardians of All Nature
    18. Recitative: Treach'ry, O King, Unheard of Treache
    19. Air: Fury, with Red Sparkling Eyes
    20. Recitative: Gods! Can There Be a More Afflictiong
    21. Air: Strange Reverse of Human Fate
    22. Recitative: May He Returns with Laurel'd Victory
    23. Air: to God Who Made the Radiant Sun
    24. Chorus: Sun, Moon, & Stars, & All Ye Host of
    25. Recitative: Yes He Was False, My Daughter, False
    26. Accompagnato: Ungrateful Child, by Ev'ry Sacred P
    27. Air: O Sword, & Thou, All-daring Hand
    28. Accompagnato: Shall Cleopatra Ever Smile Again?
    29. Recitative: Ungrateful Tidings to the Royal Ear
    30. Air: O Take Me from This Hateful Light
    31. Recitative: Forgive, O Queen, the Messenger of Il
    32. Accompagnato: Calm Thou My Soul
    33. Air: Convey Me to Some Peaceful Shore
    34. Recitative: Mysterious Are Thy Ways, O Providence
    35. Chorus: Ye Servants of Th' Eternal King

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