- Alexander Balus

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• EAN: 0034571172415
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10.06.1998
• Label: Hyperion Records (Note 1 Musikvertrieb)
• Format: Doppel-CD Audio CD

CD-Titel - Alexander Balus

• Ouverture (1. Akt)
• Chorus: "Flush'd with conquest, fir'd by Mithra"
• Recitative: "Thus far, ye glorious partners of he war"
• Air: "Great Author of this harmony"
• Flourish of trumpets
• Recitative: "And thus let happy Egypt's king"
• Air: "Thrice happy the monarch, whom Aria: Why do the Nations contend"
• Recitative: "Congretulation to our father's friend"
• Air: "Hark! hark! he strikes the golden lyre"
• Recitative: "Be it my chief ambition there to rise"
• Air: "Fair virtue shall charm me"
• Chorus: "Ye happy nations round"
• Recitative: "My Jonathan"
• Air: "Oh, what resistless charms are giv'n"
• Air: "Subtle love, with fancy viewing"
• Recitative: "Aspasia, I know not what to call"
• Air: "How happy should we mortals prove"
• Recitative: "Check not the pleasing accents of thy tongue"
• Air: "So shall the sweet attractive smile"
• Recitative: "How blissful state!"
• Duet: "O what pleasures, past expressing"
• Recitative: "Why hangs this heavy gloom upon the brow"
• Air: "Heroes may boast thei mighty deeds"
• Recitative: "Y sons of Judah, with high festival"
• Air: "Great God, from whom all blessings spring"
• Air: "Kind hope, thou universal friend" (2. Akt)
• Recitative: "Long, long and happy live the king!"
• Air: "O Mithra, with thy brighest beams"
• Recitative: "Stay, my dread sovereign"
• Air: "Mighty love now calls to arm"
• Air: "Hateful man! thy sland'rous tongue"

• Chorus: "O calumny, on virtue waiting"
• Recitative: "Ah! whence these dire forebodings of the mind?"
• Air: "Tossed from thought to thought I rove"
• Recitative: "Give to the winds, fair princess, there vain doubts"
• Air: "Love, glory, ambition, whate'er can inspire"
• Recitative: "thus far my wishes thrive"
• Air: "Virtue, thou ideal name"
• Accompagnato: "Ye happy people, with loud accents speak"
• Soli/Chorus: "Triumph Hymen in the pair"
• Recitative: Glad time, at lenght, hath reach'd the happy point"
• Duet: "Hail wedded love, mysterious law!"
• Chorus: "Hymen, fair Urania's son
• Sinfonia (3. Akt)
• Recitative: "Tis true, instinctive nature seldom points"
• Air: "Here amid the shady woods"
• Recitative: "Ah! was is not my Cleopatra's voice?"
• Air: "Pow'rful guardians of all nature"
• Recitative: "Treach'ry, O king, unheard of treachery"
• Air: "Fury, with red sparkling eyes"
• Recitative: "Gods! can there be a more afflictiong sight"
• Air: "Strange reverse of human fate"
• Recitative: "May he returns with laurel'd victory"
• Air: "To God who made the radiant sun"
• Chorus: "Sun, moon, and stars, and all ye Host of Heav'n
• Recitative: "Yes he was false, my daughter, false to you"
• Accompagnato: "Ungrateful child, by ev'ry sacred pow'r"
• Air: "O sword, and thou, all-daring hand"
• Accompagnato: "Shall Cleopatra ever smile again?"
• Recitative: "Ungrateful tidings to the royal ear"
• Air: "O take me from this hateful light"
• Recitative: "Forgive, O queen, the messenger of ill!"
• Accompagnato: "Calm thou my soul"
• Air: "Convey me to some peaceful shore"
• Recitative: "Mysterious are thy ways, O Providence!"
• Chorus: "Ye servants of th' eternal King"