Handel: Oratorio Highlights

Album by Patrick Van Goethem.

Release date: 2011-05-01

Tracks (39)

  1. Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. II: Aria. Why do the nations so furiously rage together
  2. Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. II: Let us break their bonds asunder
  3. Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. II: Recitative. He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn
  4. Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. II: Aria. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron
  5. Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. II: Hallelujah!
  6. Joshua, HWV 64, Act II: Glory to God!
  7. Joshua, HWV 64, Act III: Aria. Shall I in mamre's fertile plain
  8. Joshua, HWV 64, Act III: For all these mercies we will sing
  9. Joshua, HWV 64, Act III: Aria. Oh! Had I Jubal's lyre
  10. Joshua, HWV 64, Act III: The great Jehovah Is our awful theme
  11. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. I: Your harps and cymbals sound
  12. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Sinfonia, "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
  13. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Air and Chorus. Music, spread thy voice around
  14. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Air. Now a diff'rent measure try
  15. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Shake the Dome
  16. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Recitative. Then at once
  17. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Draw the tear from hopeless love
  18. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Recitative. Next the tortur'd soul release
  19. Solomon, HWV 67, Pt. III: Air and Chorus. Thus rolling surges rise
  20. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act I: Chorus. By slow degress the wrath of God
  21. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II: Recitative. Where Is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?
  22. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II: Chorus - Recitative. Help, help the king!
  23. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II: Recitative. Ye sages, welcome always to your king
  24. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II: Chorus. Alas, too hard a task the king imposes
  25. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act II: Chorus. Oh, misery! Oh terror, hopeless grief!
  26. Belshazzar, HWV 61, Act III: Tell it out among the heathen
  27. Saul, HWV 53, Act I: Recitative. Already see the Daughters of the Land
  28. Saul, HWV 53, Act I: Chorus. Welcome, welcome, mighty King!
  29. Saul, HWV 53, Act I: Accompagnato. What do I hear?
  30. Saul, HWV 53, Act I: Chorus. David his Ten Thousands slew
  31. Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II: Accompagnato. First perish thou
  32. Jephtha, HWV 70, Act II: Arioso. Let other creatures die
  33. Samson, HWV 57, Act I: Chorus. Awake the trumpet's lofty sound!
  34. Samson, HWV 57, Act I: Return, O God of hosts
  35. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Pt. II: Duet. Sion now her head shall raise
  36. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Pt. II: Tune your harps to song of praise
  37. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Pt. II: Sound an alarm!
  38. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Pt. III: Sing unto God
  39. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Pt. III: Hallelujah, Amen

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