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CD 1
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Belshazzar: Overture
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4:38
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| 2 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Accompagnato ed Arioso "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire!" (Nitocris)
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5:05
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| 3 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" (Nitocris)
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3:58
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| 4 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
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1:14
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| 5 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 1, Air "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" (Daniel)
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4:55
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| 6 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "Behold, by Persia's hero made" (Babylonians)
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2:48
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| 7 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Well may they laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus); Accompagnato "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul" (Gobrias)
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1:18
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Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" (Gobrias)
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3:33
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| 9 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Dry thoes unavailing tears" (Cyrus)
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2:12
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| 10 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem"; Accompagnato "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
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2:35
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| 11 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Now, tell me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
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1:14
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| 12 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Behold the monstrous human beast" (Gobrias)
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3:16
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| 13 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "Can you then think it strange" (Cyrus)
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0:15
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| 14 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Air "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" (Cyrus)
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3:49
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| 15 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Recitativo "My friends, be confident" (Cyrus)
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0:41
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| 16 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 2, Chorus "All empires upon God depend"
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3:15
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| 17 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Air "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" (Daniel)
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5:13
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| 18 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Rejoice, my countrymen"; Air "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" (Daniel)
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2:59
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Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 3, Chorus, "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
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4:10
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CD 2
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| 1 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" (Belshazzar)
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5:02
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Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "For you, my friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
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0:53
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| 3 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Air "The leafy honours of the field" (Nitocris)
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7:33
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| 4 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
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1:22
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| 5 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" (Jews)
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3:53
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| 6 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "They tell you true" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
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1:22
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| 7 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Duet "Oh dearer than my life, forbear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
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7:15
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| 8 |
Belshazzar: Act 1, Scene 4, Chorus "By slow degrees the wrath of God" (Jews)
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4:24
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| 9 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
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6:26
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| 10 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Recitativo "You see, my friends, a path" (Cyrus)
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0:45
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| 11 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Air "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" (Cyrus)
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4:23
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| 12 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 1, Chorus "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" (Persians)
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0:35
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| 13 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
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2:58
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| 14 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" (Belshazzar)
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2:38
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| 15 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
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2:41
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| 16 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Call all my Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
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0:21
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CD 3
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| 1 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, A Sinfony (Allegro Postillions)
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1:42
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Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" (Belshazzar); Recitativo "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" (Wise Men)
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1:05
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Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Chorus "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
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1:50
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| 4 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh king! live for ever!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
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1:39
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| 5 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Air "No! to thyself thy trifles be" (Daniel)
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1:30
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| 6 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Accompagnato "Yet, to obey his dread command" (Daniel)
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3:13
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| 7 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 2, Recitativo "Oh sentence too severe!" (Nitocris); Air "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" (Nitocris)
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7:00
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| 8 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Air "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" (Cyrus)
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4:38
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Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Recitativo "You, Gobrias, lead directry to the palace" (Cyrus)
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1:01
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| 10 |
Belshazzar: Act 2, Scene 3, Chorus "Oh glorious prince!"
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4:54
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| 11 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Alternate hopes and fears" (Nitocris)
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4:27
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| 12 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "Fain would I hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)
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0:22
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| 13 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Air "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" (Daniel)
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2:26
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| 14 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Recitativo "My hopes revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
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1:51
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| 15 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 1, Chorus "Bel boweth down" (Jews)
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1:31
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| 16 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, Air "I thank thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
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1:37
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Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 2, A Martial Symphony
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0:39
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| 18 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Air "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" (Gobrias)
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2:44
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| 19 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" (Cyrus); Air "Destructive War, thy limits know" (Cyrus)
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2:55
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| 20 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Duet "Great victor, at your feet I bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
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3:58
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| 21 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Recitativo "Say, venerable prophet" (Cyrus, Daniel)
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0:55
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| 22 |
Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "Tell it out among the heathen"
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1:37
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Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Accompagnato "Yes, I will build thy city" (Cyrus)
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2:22
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Belshazzar: Act 3, Scene 3, Soli & Chorus "I will magnify thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)
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5:26
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