Handel: Judas Maccabaeus

Album by Paul Esswood.

Release date: 1977-01-01

Tracks (50)

  1. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63: Overture
  2. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 27. Chorus: "Fall'n is the foe"
  3. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 3: 53. Aria: "Father of Heav'n! from Thy eternal throne"
  4. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 2. Chorus: "Mourn, ye afflicted children"
  5. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 28. Recit.: "Victorious hero! Fame shall tell"
  6. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 3: 54. Recit.: "See, see yon flames"
  7. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 3. Recit.: "Well, may our sorrows, brethren, flow"
  8. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 29. Aria: "So rapid thy course is"
  9. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 3: 55. Recit.: "Oh grant it, Heav'n"
  10. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 4. Duet: "From this dread scene"
  11. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 30. Recit.: "Well, may we hope our freedom to receive"
  12. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 5. Chorus: "For Sion lamentation make"
  13. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 31./32. Duet and Chorus:"Sion now her head shall rise"
  14. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 6. Recit.: "Not vain is all the storm of grief"
  15. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 33. Recit.: "Oh let eternal honours crown his name"
  16. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 7. Aria: "Pious orgies, pious airs"
  17. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 34. Aria: "From mighty kings he took the spoil"
  18. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 8. Chorus: "Oh Father, whose Almighty pow'r"
  19. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 35./36. Duet and Chorus: "Hail, hail, Judea, happy land!"
  20. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 9. Recit.: "I feel, I fee the Deity within"
  21. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 37. Recit.: "Thanks to my brethren, but look up to Heav'n"
  22. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 10. Aria: "Arm, arm, ye brave!"
  23. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 38. Aria: "How vain is man, who boasts in fight"
  24. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 11. Chorus: "We come, we come, in bright array"
  25. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 39. Recit.: "Oh Judas, oh my brethren!"
  26. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 12. Recit.: "'Tis well, my friends"
  27. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 40./41. Aria and chorus: "Ah! wretched, wretched Israel!"
  28. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 13. Aria: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul"
  29. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 42. Recit.: "Be comforted"
  30. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 14. Recit.: "To Heav'n's Almighty king we kneel"
  31. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 43. Aria: "The Lord worketh wonders"
  32. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 15. Aria: "Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure"
  33. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 44. Recit.:"My arms! - against this Gorgias will I go"
  34. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 16. Aria: "Come, ever-smiling liberty"
  35. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 45. Aria: "Sound an alarm!" 46. Chorus: "We hear, we hear the pleasing dreadful sound"
  36. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 17. Recit.: "Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire"
  37. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 47. Recit.: "Enough!" To Heav'n we leave the rest"
  38. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 18. Aria: "'Tis liberty, dear liberty alone"
  39. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 48. Aria: "With pious hearts, and brave as pious"
  40. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 19. Duet: "Come, ever-smiling liberty"
  41. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 49. Recit.: "Ye worshippers of God"
  42. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 20. Chorus: "Lead on, lead on! Judah disdains"
  43. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 50. Aria: "Wise men, flatt'ring, may deceive us"
  44. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 21. Recit.: "So will'd my father, now a rest"
  45. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 2: 51. Duet: "Oh! never, never bow we down" - 52. Chorus: We never, never will bow down
  46. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 22. Semi-chorus: "Disdainfull of danger"
  47. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 23. Recit.: "Ambition! if e'er honour was thine aim"
  48. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 24. Aria: "No unhallow'd desire"
  49. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 25. Recit.: "Haste we, my brethren"
  50. Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 / Part 1: 26. Chorus: "Hear us Lord, on thee we call"

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