Various ArtistsBig Handel Oratorio Box

Jephtha, HWV 70: Ouverture. Menuet

Jephtha, HWV 70: Accompagnato: It must be so; Air: Pour forth no more

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: No more to Ammon's god and king

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: But Jephtha comes; Air: Virtue my soul shall still embrace

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Twill be a painful separation; Air: In gentle murmurs will I mourn

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Happy this embassy; Air: Dull delay, in piercing anguish

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Ill suits the voice of love; Air: Take the heart you fondly gave

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: I go, my soul; Duet: These labours past, how happy we

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: What mean these doubtful fancies; Accompagnato: If, Lord, sustained

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: O God, behold our sore distress

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Some dire event; Air: Scenes of horror, scenes of woe

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Say, my dear mother; Air: The smiling dawn of happy days

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply; Chorus: When his loud voice in thunder spoke

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Glad tidings of great Joy; Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim

Jephtha, HWV 70: Air. Up the dreadful steep ascending

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Tis well, haste, haste, ye maidens; Air: Tune the soft melodious lute

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Heav'n smiles once more

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Aria: His mighty

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: In glory high

Jephtha, HWV 70: Symphony

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Hail, glorious conqueror!; Aria: Welcome as the cheerful light; Semi-Chrorus: Welcome thou

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Horror! Horror!; Aria: Open thy marble jaws

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Why is my brother thus afflicted

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: First perish thou

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: If such thy cruel purpose; Aria: On me let blind mistaken zea

Jephtha, HWV 70: Quartet: O spare your daughter

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Such news flies swiftly; Recitative: For joys so vast; Aria: Happy they

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Deeper and deeper still

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: How dark, O Lord, are Thy decrees

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Hide thou thy hated beams

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: A father, off'ring up his only child; Aria: Waft her, angels

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Ye sacred priests; Aria: Farewell, ye limpid springs

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: Doubtful fear

Jephtha, HWV 70: Symphony

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Rise Jephtha; Aria: Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live

Jephtha, HWV 70: Aria: For ever blessed be thy holy name

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: Theme sublime of endless praise

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: Let me congratulate; Aria: Laud her, all ye virgin train

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: O let me fold thee; Aria: Sweet as sight to the blind

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: With transport, Iphis; Aria: 'Tis heav'n's all-ruling power

Jephtha, HWV 70: Recitative: My faithful Hamor; Aria: Freely I to heav'n resign; Quintet: All that is in Hamor mine

Jephtha, HWV 70: Chorus: Ye house of Gilead

Saul, HWV 53: Overture; Chorus: How excellent thy name, O Lord

Saul, HWV 53: Air: An infant rais'd by Thy command

Saul, HWV 53: Trio: Along the monster atheist strode; Chorus: The youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: How excellent Thy name, O Lord

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Behold, O King; Air: O King, your favours with delight

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Oh,early piety!; Recitative: Thou, Merab, first in birth; Air: My soul rejects the thought with scorn

Saul, HWV 53: Air: See, with what a scornful air

Saul, HWV 53: Symphony

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Already see the daughters of the land; Chorus: Welcome, welcome, mighty king!

Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: What do I hear? Am I then sunk so low; Chorus: David his ten thousands slew

Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: To him ten thousands, and to me but thousands!; Air: With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Imprudent women! Air: Fell rage and black despair possess'd

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Racked with infernal pains; Air: O Lord, whose mercies numberless

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: 'Tis all in vain; Air: A serpent, in my bosom warm'd

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Has he escap'd my rage? Accompagnato: O filial piety!; Air: No, cruel father, no!

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Preserve him for the glory of Thy name

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Envy, eldest born of hell

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Hast thou obey'd my orders; Air: Sin not, O King

Saul, HWV 53: Air: As great Jehovah lives, I swear; Air: From cities stormed, and battles won

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Appear, my friend

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: A father's will has authorized my love; Duet: O fairest of ten thousand fair

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Is there a man, who all his ways

Saul, HWV 53: Symphony

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Thy father is as cruel; Duet: At persecution I can laugh

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Whom dost thou seek; Air: No, no, let the guilty tremble

Saul, HWV 53: Symphony

Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: The time at length is come; Recitative: Where is the son of Jesse?

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Oh, fatal consequence of rage

Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: Wretch that I am; Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a woman

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: With me what would'st thou? Air: Infernal spirits

Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace

Saul, HWV 53: Symphony

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Whence comest thou? Air: Impious wretch, of race accurst!

Saul, HWV 53: Symphony: Dead march

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Mourn, Israel, mourn

Saul, HWV 53: Air: Brave Jonathan his bow never drew

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they

Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they

Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Ye men of Judah, weep no more! Chorus: Gird on thy sword, thou man of might

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Overture: Largo; Allegro; Largo

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Mourn, ye afflicted children

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Well may your sorrows

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: For Zion lamentation make

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Not in vain is all this storm

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Pious orgies

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: O Father, whose almighty power

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Accompagnato: I feel the Deity within

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Arm, arm, ye brave!

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We come in bright array

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: ‘Tis well, my friends

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Call forth the powers

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Lead on, lead on

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: So willed my father

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Disdainful of danger

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Ambition

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: No unhallowed desire

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Haste we, my brethren

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Hear us, oh Lord

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Fallen is the foe

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Zion now her head shall raise

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Oh let eternal honors

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Israelite Woman From mighty kings

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Hail, hail, Judea

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Thanks to my brethren

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: How vain is man

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Oh Judas, oh my brethren

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria, Chorus: Ah! Wretched Israel

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Be comforted

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: The Lord worketh wonders

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: My arms

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria, Chorus: Sound an alarm!

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We hear

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Enough! To Heaven we leave the rest

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With pious hearts

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Ye worshippers

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Wise men, flattering

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Oh! never, never bow

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We never will bow down

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Man Father of Heaven

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: See yon flames

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Oh grant it

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: So shall the lute

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: From Capharsalama

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: See the Conquering hero

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: March

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Sing unto god

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With honor let dessert

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With honor let dessert

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Peace to my countrymen

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: To our great God

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Again to Earth

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Oh lovely peace

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Rejoice oh Judah

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Hallelujah, Amen

Semele, HWV 58: Overture

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise

Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Lucky omens bless our rites

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Arioso and Duet: Daughter, obey

Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me!; Air: O Jove

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Alas! She yields; Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve

Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes; Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno; Chorus: Cease, cease your vows

Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes; Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno; Chorus: Cease, cease your vows

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Ah, wretched prince; Accompagnato: Wing'd with our fears and pious haste

Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Hail Cadmus, hail

Semele, HWV 58: Aria and Chorus: Endless Pleasure

Semele, HWV 58: Sinfonia

Semele, HWV 58: Accompangnato: Awake, Saturnia!; Recitative; Accompagnato: With adamant the gates are barr'd; Air: Hence, Iris,

Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Let me not another moment; Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: You are mortal; Air: With fond desiring; Chorus: How engaging, how endearing

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Ah, me!; Aria: I must with speed amuse her

Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Now Love

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: By my command; Aria: Where'er you walk

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your journey hither? Aria: But hark, the heav'nly spehere turns around

Semele, HWV 58: Duet: Prepare then, ye immortal choir

Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Bless the glad earth

Semele, HWV 58: Sinfonia

Semele, HWV 58: Accomagnato: Somnus, awake!; Aria: Leave me, loathsome light

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend; Aria: More sweet is that name

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: My will obey

Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Myself I shall adore

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful; Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath; Aria: Thus let my thanks be paid

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Aria: Rich odours fill the fragrant air; Aria: Come to my arms

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Oh Semele!; Aria: I am ever granting

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire; Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood

Semele, HWV 58: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less

Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, whither is she gone

Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure

Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me! Too late now I repent

Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream; Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment

Semele, HWV 58: Sinfonia

Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Apollo comes; Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be

Theodora, HWV 68: Overture

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis Dioclesian's natal day; Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread lord, a gracious ear; Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: For ever thus stands fixed the doom

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Most cruel decree; sure thy noble soul; Air: The raptur'd soul defies the sword

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: I know thy virtures, and ask not thy faith; Air: Descend, kind pity, heav'nly guest

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Through hard, my friends; Air: Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh bright example of all goodness

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Fly, fly, my brethren, heathen rage pursues us swift; Air: As with rosy steps the morn

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: All pow'r in Heaven above, or earth beneath

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh retched retches

Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Oh, worse than death indeed!; Air: Angels, ever bright and fair

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Unhappy, happy crew! Why stand you thus

Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Kind Heaven, if virtue be Thy care

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh Love, how great thy power! Chorus: Go, gen'rous, pious youth

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp; Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love

Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Wide spread his name

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid; Chorus: Venus laughing from the skies

Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays; Air: With darkness deep, as is my woe

Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But why art thou disquieted; Air: Oh, that I on wings could rise

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Long have I known thy friendly social soul; Air: Though the honours that Flora and Venus receive

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save her, then, or give me power to save

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere; Air: Defend her, Heav'n! Let angels spread

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Or lulled with grief or rapt her soul to heaven; Air: Sweet rose and lily, flow'ry form

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save me, Heaven, in this my perilous hour

Theodora, HWV 68: Air: The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health

Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heaven!

Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of wrath

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: 'Tis night; but night's sweet blessing is denied

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: He saw the lovely youth, death's early prey

Theodora, HWV 68: Aria: Lord, to Thee, each night and day

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But see, the good, the virtuous Didimus

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Blest be the hand, and blest the power

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Undanted in the court stands Didimus

Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly?

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: She's gone, disdaining liberty and life

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: It is a Christian virtue then

Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless prayer

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: How strange their ends

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert

Theodora, HWV 68: Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing

Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ere this their doom is past, and they are gone

Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Oh love divine, thou source of fame

Messiah, HWV 56: Sinfonia

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Comfort ye my people

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thus saith the Lord

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But who may abide

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And He shall purify

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive

Messiah, HWV 56: Air & Chorus: O thou that tellest

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth

Messiah, HWV 56: Air-Bass: The people that walked in darkness

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: For unto us a child is born

Messiah, HWV 56: PIFA (Pastoral Symphony)

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: There were shepherds; And lo, the Angel of the Lord

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And the angel said unto them

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And suddenly there was the angel

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Glory to God in the highest

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind

Duet: And he shall feed his flock

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: His yoke is easy

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: He was despised

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: All we like sheep

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative-Tenor: All they that see Him

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: He trusted in God

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He was cut off out of the land

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But thou didst not leave

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Lift up your heads

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Unto which of the angels

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship Him

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou art gone up on high

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: The Lord gave the word

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: How beautiful are the feet

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Their sound is gone out

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Why do the nations?

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou shalt break them

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Hallelujah

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Since by man came death

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: The trumpet shall sound

Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass

Messiah, HWV 56: Duet: O death, where is thy sting?

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: But thanks be to God

Messiah, HWV 56: Air: If God be for us

Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb...Amen