Handel: Alexander Balus
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Handel: Alexander Balus

The King's Consort & Robert King

1997-10-01 67 tracks ℗ 1997 Hyperion Records Limited

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Tracks

1 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Ouverture: [Grave] – Allegro 2:51
2 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 1. Chorus: Flush'd with Conquest, Fir'd by Mithra (Asiates) 3:11
3 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 2. Recitative: Thus Far, Ye Glorious Partners of the War (Alexander/Jonathan) 1:28
4 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 3. Air: Great Author of This Harmony (Jonathan) 3:17
5 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 4. Flourish of Trumpets 0:11
6 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 5. Recitative: And Thus Let Happy Egypt's King (Ptolomee) 0:24
7 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 6. Air: Thrice Happy the Monarch, Whom Nations Content (Ptolomee) 3:43
8 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 7. Recitative: Congratulation to Our Father's Friend (Cleopatra) 0:25
9 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 8. Air: Hark! Hark! He Strikes the Golden Lyre (Cleopatra) 5:58
10 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 9. Recitative: Be It My Chief Ambition There To Rise (Alexander) 0:14
11 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 10. Air: Fair Virtue Shall Charm Me (Alexander) 2:24
12 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 11. Chorus: Ye Happy Nations Round (Asiates) 3:02
13 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 2 No. 1. Recitative: My Jonathan (Alexander) 0:35
14 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 2 No. 2. Air: Oh, What Resistless Charms Are Giv'n (Alexander) 4:13
15 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 1. Air: Subtle Love, with Fancy Viewing (Cleopatra) 4:55
16 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 2. Recitative: Aspasia, I Know Not What To Call (Cleopatra) 0:45
17 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 3. Air: How Happy Should We Mortals Prove (Cleopatra) 2:26
18 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 4. Recitative: Check Not the Pleasing Accents of Thy Tongue (Aspasia) 0:24
19 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 5. Air: So Shall the Sweet Attractive Smile (Aspasia) 2:40
20 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 6. Recitative: How Blissful State! (Cleopatra/Aspasia) 0:26
21 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 7. Duet: O What Pleasures, Past Expressing (Cleopatra/Aspasia) 3:00
22 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 4 No. 1. Recitative: Why Hangs This Heavy Gloom upon the Brow (Jonathan/Alexander) 1:00
23 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 4 No. 2. Air: Heroes May Boast Their Mighty Deed (Alexander) 4:52
24 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 5 No. 1. Recitative: Ye Sons of Judah, with High Festival (Jonathan) 0:31
25 Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 5 No. 2. Air with Chorus: Great God, from Whom All Blessings Spring (Jonathan/Israelites) 4:38
26 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 1. Air: Kind Hope, Thou Universal Friend (Alexander) 6:04
27 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 2. Recitative: Long, Long and Happy Live the King! (Jonathan/Alexander) 0:40
28 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 3. Air: O Mithra, with Thy Brightest Beams (Alexander) 4:17
29 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 4. Recitative: Stay, My Dread Sovereign (Sycophant Courtier/Alexander/Jonathan) 1:39
30 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 5. Air: Mighty Love Now Calls To Arm (Alexander) 2:36
31 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 6. Air: Hateful Man! Thy Sland'rous Tongue (Jonathan) 4:21
32 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 7. Chorus: O Calumny, on Virtue Waiting (Israelites) 4:21
33 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 1. Recitative: Ah! Whence These Dire Forebodings of the Mind? (Cleopatra) 0:39
34 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 2. Air: Tossed from Thought to Thought I Rove (Cleopatra) 6:29
35 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 3. Recitative: Give to the Winds, Fair Princess, These Vain Doubts (Aspasia) 0:22
36 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 4. Air: Love, Glory, Ambition, Whate'er Can Inspire (Aspasia) 2:50
37 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 3 No. 1. Recitative: Thus Far My Wishes Thrive (Ptolomee) 0:54
38 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 3 No. 2. Air: Virtue, Thou Ideal Name (Ptolomee) 3:43
39 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 1. Accompagnato: Ye Happy People, with Loud Accents Speak (Jonathan) 0:37
40 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 2. Soli with Chorus: Triumph Hymen in the Pair 2:40
41 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 3. Recitative: Glad Time, at Length, Hath Reach'd the Happy Point (Alexander/Cleopatra) 0:48
42 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 4. Duet: Hail Wedded Love, Mysterious Law! (Alexander/Cleopatra) 3:39
43 Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 5. Chorus: Hymen, Fair Urania's Son (Asiates) 2:38
44 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Introduction: Sinfonia 1:15
45 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 1 No. 1. Recitative: 'Tis True, Instinctive Nature Seldom Points (Cleopatra) 0:29
46 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 1 No. 2. Air with Chorus: Here Amid the Shady Woods (Cleopatra/Ruffians) 4:17
47 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 1. Recitative: Ah! Was It Not My Cleopatra's Voice? (Alexander) 0:41
48 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 2. Air: Pow'rful Guardians of All Nature (Alexander) 2:53
49 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 3. Recitative: Treach'ry, O King, Unheard of Treachery (Jonathan/Alexander/Aspasia) 1:23
50 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 4. Air: Fury, with Red Sparkling Eyes (Alexander) 6:24
51 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 5. Recitative: Gods! Can There Be a More Afflicting Sight (Aspasia) 0:24
52 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 6. Air: Strange Reverse of Human Fate (Aspasia) 2:50
53 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 7. Recitative: May He Return with Laurel'd Victory (Jonathan) 0:26
54 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 8. Air: To God Who Made the Radiant Sun (Jonathan) 3:13
55 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 9. Chorus: Sun, Moon, and Stars, and All Ye Host of Heav'n (Israelites) 2:51
56 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 3 No. 1. Recitative: Yes He Was False, My Daughter, False to You (Jonathan/Cleopatra) 1:19
57 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 3 No. 2. Accompagnato: Ungrateful Child, by Ev'ry Sacred Pow'r (Ptolomee) 0:26
58 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 3 No. 3. Air: O Sword, and Thou, All-Daring Hand (Ptolomee) 2:50
59 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 4 No. 1. Accompagnato: Shall Cleopatra Ever Smile Again? (Cleopatra) 0:43
60 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 4 No. 2. Recitative: Ungrateful Tidings to the Royal Ear (Messenger) 1:23
61 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 4 No. 3. Air: O Take Me from This Hateful Light (Cleopatra) 5:17
62 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 4 No. 4. Recitative: Forgive, O Queen, the Messenger of Ill! (Second Messenger/Cleopatra) 1:23
63 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 4 No. 5. Accompagnato: Calm Thou My Soul (Cleopatra) 0:47
64 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 4 No. 6. Air: Convey Me to Some Peaceful Shore (Cleopatra) 2:41
65 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 5 No. 1. Recitative: Mysterious Are Thy Ways, O Providence! (Jonathan) 1:20
66 Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 5 No. 2. Chorus with Solo: Ye Servants of th' Eternal King (Jonathan/Israelites) 3:20

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