Автор музыки: Георг Гендель Все исполнители Содержание: BELSHAZZAR Oratorio In Three Acts, HWV 61 Libretto: Charles Jennens Belshazzar - Robert Tear, Tenor Nitocris - Felicity Palmer, Soprano Cyrusвбвль - Maureen Lehane, Mezzo-Soprano Daniel - Paul Esswood, Alto Gobrias - Peter Van Der Bilt, Bass Arioch - Thomas Sunnegardh, Tenor Messenger - Staffan Sandlund, Bass Stockholm Kammerkoren Eric Ericson, Chorus Master Continue: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Cello Herbert Tacheziвмьзъ, Harpsichord Concentus Musicus Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt CD 1: 01 Ouverture ACT ONE Scene 1 02 No1a Accompagnato Ed Arioso: Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire! (Nitocris) 03 No1 Air: Thou, God Most High (Nitocris) 04 Recitative: The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh (Nitocris) Recitative: О Much Belov'd Of God And Man! Say (Nitocris, Daniel) 05 No3 Air: Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain! (Daniel) Scene 2 06 No4 Chorus Of Babylonians: Behold, By Persia's Hero Madвсюшжe In Ample Form 07 Recitative: Well May They Laugh, From Meagre Famine Safe (Gobrias, Cyrus) No5 Accompagnato: Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul! (Gobrias) 08 No6 Air: Oppress'd With Never-Ceasing Grief (Gobrias) 09 No7 Air: Dry Those Unavailing Tears (Cyrus) 10 Recitative: Be Comforted (Cyrus) No8 Accompagnato: Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates (Cyrus) Recitative: Now Tell Me, Gobrias (Cyrus, Gobrias) 11 No9 Air: Behold The Monstrous Human Beast (Gobrias) 12 Recitative: Can You Then Think It Strange (Cyrus) No10 Air: Great God! Who, Yet But Darkly Known (Cyrus) Recitative: My Friends, Be Confident, And Boldly Enter Upon This High Exploit (Cyrus) 13 No11 Chorus (Of Medes And Persians): All Empires Upon God Depend Scene 3 14 No 12 Arioso: Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth! (Daniel) 15 No13 Accompagnato: Rejoice, My Countrymen: The Time Draws Near (Daniel) Recitative: For Long Ago, Whole Ages Ere This Cyrus Yet Was Born (Daniel) No14 Accompagnato: qвужкр"Thus Saith The Lord To Cyrus, His Anointed" (Daniel) 16 No15 Chorus (Of Jews): Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns! CD 2: Scene 4 01 No16 Air: Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign! (Belshazzar) 02 Recitative: For You, My Friends, The Nobles Of My Court (Belshazzar, Nitocris) 03 No17 Air: The Leafy Honours Of The Field (Nitocris) 04 Recitative: It Is The Custom, I May Say, The Law (Belshazzar, Nitocris) 05 No18 Chorus Of Jews: Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command 06 Recitative: They Tell You True (Nitocris, Belshazzar) 07 No19 Duet: Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forbear! (Nitocris, Belshazzar) 08 No20 Chorus Of Jews: By Slow Degrees The Wrath Of God ACT TWO Scene 1 09 No21 Chorus (Of Persians): See, From His Post Euphrates Flies! No22 Semichorus I: Why, Faithless River, Dost Thou Leave Thy Charge No23 Semichorus II: Euphrates Hath His Task Fulfill'd No24 Chorus: Of Things On Earth, Proud Man Must Own 10 Recitative: You See, My Friends, A Path Into The City Lies Open (Cyruвушьфs) No25 Air: Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near (Cyrus) 11 No26 Chorus Of Persians: To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay! Scene 2 12 No27 Chorus Of Babylonians: Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire, Look Down 13 No28 Air: Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess (Belshazzar) No29 Accompagnato: Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r? (Belshazzar) Chorus (Of Babylonians): Help, Help The King! Oh Dire Portentous Sight! (Chorus, Belshazzar) Recitative: Call All My Wise Men (Belshazzar) 14 No30: Symphonie Recitative: Ye Sages! Welcome Always To Your King (Belshazzar) No31 Trio: Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes (Wise Men) 15 No32 Chorus (Of Babylonians): Oh Misery! Oh Terror! Hopeless Grief! CD 3: 01 Recitative: Oh King, Live For Ever! (Nitocris) Recitative: Art Thou That Daniel Of The Jewish Captives? (Belshazzar) 02 No33 Air: No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be (Daniel) No34 Accompagnato: Yet To Obey His Dread Command (Daniel) No36 Accompagnato: Thou, О King, Hast Lifted вуэшмUp Thyself Against The Lord (Daniel) Recitative: Oh Sentence Too Severe! And Yet Too Sure! (Nitocris) 03 No37 Air: Regard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears (Nitocris) Scene 3 04 No37 Air: Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide! (Cyrus) Recitative: You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace (Cyrus) 05 No39 Chorus (Of Persians): Oh Glorious Prince! ACT THREE Scene 1 06 No40 Air: Alternate Hopes And Fears Distract My Mind (Nitocris) 07 Recitative: Fain Would I Hope - Is There Not Room For Hope? (Nitocris, Daniel) No41 Air: Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin? (Daniel) 08 Recitative: My Hopes Revive - Here Arioch Comes (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger) 09 No42 Chorus Of Jews: Bel Boweth Down! Scene 2 10 No43 Air: I Thank Thee, Sesach (Belshazzar) No44 A Martial Symphony, During Which A Battle Is Suppos'd, In Which Belshazzar And His Attendants Are Slain Scene 3 11 No45 Air: To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks Are Due (Gobrias) 12 Recitative: Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias, вфамьTo Find Out The Queen (Cyrus) No46 Air: Destructive War, Thy Limits Know (Cyrus) 13 No47 Duet: Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow (Nitocris, Cyrus) 14 Recitative: Say, Venerable Prophet, Is There Aught In Cyrus' Pow'r (Cyrus, Daniel) 15 No48 (Soli And) Chorus: Tell It Out Among The Heathen, That The Lord Is King No49 Accompagnato: Yes, I Will Build Thy City, God Of Israel (Cyrus) 16 No50 Soli And Chorus: I Will Magnify Thee, Oh God My King! JEPHTHA Oratorio In Three Acts, HWV 70 Libretto: Thomas Morell Jephtha - Werner Hollweg, Tenor Zebul - Thomas Thomaschke, Bass Storge - Glenys Linos, Soprano Iphis - Elizabeth Gale, Soprano Hamor - Pau' Esswood, Alto Angel - Gabriele Sima, Soprano Chorus Of Israelites Mozart-Sangerknaben I Rich Schwarzbauer, Chorus Master Arnold Schoenberg Chor Irwin Ortner, Chorus Master Concentus Musicus Wien Nikolaus Harnoncourt CD 4: 01 Ouverture - Menuet ACT ONE 02 No1 Accompagnato: It Must Be So - Or These Vile Ammonites (Zebul) Noвфвбы2 Air: Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs (Zebul) 03 No3 Chorus: No More To Amnion's God And King 04 Recitative: But Lephtha Comes - Kind Heaven, Assist Our Plea (Zebul, Jephtha) No4 Air: Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace (Jephtha) 05 Recitative: 'Twill Be A Painful Separation, Jephtha (Storge) No5 Air: In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn (Storge) 06 Recitative: Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis (Hamor) No6 Air: Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish, Bids Thy Faithful Lover Languish (Hamor) 07 Recitative: 111 Suits The Voice Of Love When Glory Calls (Iphis) No7 Air: Take The Heart You Fondly Gave, Lodg'd In Your Breast With Mine (Iphis) 08 Recitative: I Go; My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command Thirsts For The Battle (Hamor) No8 Duet: These Labours Past, How Happy We! (Iphis, Hamor) 09 Recitative: What Mean These Doubtful Fancies Of The Brain? (Jephtha) No9 Accompagnato: If, Lord, Sustain D By Thy Almighty Pow'r (Jephtha) Recitative: 'Tis Said Attend, Ye Chiefs (Jephtвфггкha) 10 No 10 Chorus: О God, Behold Our Sore Distress 11 Recitative: Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads (Storge) No11 Air: Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe (Storge) 12 Recitative: Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries (Iphis, Storge) No12 Air: The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days Presents A Prospect Clear (Iphis) 13 Recitative: Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply (Zebul, Jephtha) 14 No13 Chorus: When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke CD 5: ACT TWO 01 Recitative: Glad Tidings Of Great Joy To Thee, Dear Iphis (Hamor) 02 No 14 Chorus: Cherub And Seraphim, Unbodied Forms 03 No 15 Air: Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending (Hamor) 04 Recitative: 'Tis Well Haste, Haste, Ye Maidens (Iphis) No16 Air: Tune The Soft Melodious Lute (Iphis) 05 Recitative: Again Heav'n Smiles On His Repentant People (Zebul) No 17 Air: Freedom Now Once More Possessing (Zebul) 06 Recitative: Zebul, Thy Deeds Were Valiant (Jephtha) No 18 Air: His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow, Diвфгчрspers'd And Quell'd (Jephtha) 07 Chorus: In Glory High, In Might Serene 08 No20 Symphony 09 Recitative: Hail, Glorious Conqueror! Much-Lov'd Father, Hail! (Iphis) No21 Solo And Chorus: Welcome, As The Cheerful Light (Iphis) 10 Recitative: Horror! Confusion! (Jephtha) No22 Air: Open Thy Marble Jaws, О Tomb (Jephtha) 11 Recitative: Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted? (Zebul, Jephtha) 12 No23 Accompagnato And Arioso: First Perish Thou; And Perish All The World! Let Other Creatures Die (Storge) 13 Recitative: If Such Thy Cruel Purpose; Lo! Your Friend Offers Himself (Hamor) No24 Air: On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal Her Utmost Rage Employ (Hamor) 14 No25 Quartet: О Spare Your Daughter! (Zebul, Storge, Hamor, Jephtha) 15 Recitative: Such News Flies Swift; I've Heard The Mournful Cause (Iphis) No26 Accompagnato: For Joys So Vast, Too Little Is The Price Of One Poor Life (Iphis) No27 Air: Happy They! This Vital Breath With Content I Shall Resign (Iphis) 16 No28 Acвфдетcompagnato: Deeper And Deeper Still, Thy Goodness, Child (Jephtha) 17 Chorus: How Dark, О Lord, Are Thy Decrees! CD 6: ACT THREE 01 No30 Arioso: Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, О Sun, In Clouds And Darkness (Jephtha) No31 Accompagnato: A Father, Offering Up His Only Child (Jephtha) No32 Air: Waft Her, Angels, Through The Skies (Jephtha) 02 No33 Accompagnato: Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne'er Yet Were Stain'd With Human Blood (Iphis) No34 Air: Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs And Floods (Iphis) 03 No35 Chorus: Doubtful Fear And Reverent Awe Strike Us, Lord 04 And Thy Determin'd Will Declare No36 Symphony 05 Recitative: Rise, Jephtha And Ye Reverend Priests, Withhold (Angel) No37 Air: Happy, Iphis, Shalt Thou Live (Angel) 06 No38 Arioso: For Ever Blessed Be Thy Holy Name (Jephtha) 07 No39 Chorus: Theme Sublime Of Endless Praise 08 Recitative: Let Me Congratulate This Happy Turn (Zebul) No40 Air: Laud Her, All Ye Virgin Train (Zebul) 09 Recitative: О Let Me Foвфдсьld Thee In A Mother's Arms (Storge) No41 Air: Sweet As Sight To The Blind, Or Freedom To The Slave (Storge) 10 Recitative: With Transport, Iphis, I Behold Thy Safety (Hamor) No42 Air: 'Tis Heaven's All-Ruling Pow'r That Checks The Rising Sigh (Hamor) 11 Recitative: My Faithful Hamor, May That Providence (Iphis) No43 Air: Freely I To Heaven Resign, All That Is In Hamor Mine (Iphis) 12 No44 Chorus: Ye House Of Gilead, With One Voice, In Blessings Manifold Rejoice! Издание содержит буклет с дополнительной информацией на английском, немецком и французском языках Диски упакованы в картонные конверты и вложены в картонную коробку Исполнители (показать всех исполнителей) Николаус Арнонкур Nikolaus Harnoncourt Фелисити Палмер Felicity Palmer Пол Эссвуд Paul Esswood.