Songs
01
Ouverture (Maestoso - Allegro)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:38
02
Accompagnato Ed Arioso: "Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire" (Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
5:06
03
Air; "Thou, God Most High, Ad Thou Alone" (Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:00
04
Recitativo: "The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:15
05
Air: "Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!" (Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:55
06
Chorus: "Behold, By Persia's Hero Made" (Babylonians)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:49
07
Recitativo: " Well May They Laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My SouAnthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:19
08
Air: " Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief" (Gobrias)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:33
09
Air: " Dry Those Unvailing Tears" (Gobrias)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:13
10
Recitativo: " Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem" (Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Methought, As On TheAnthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:35
11
Recitativo: "Now, Tell Me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:14
12
Air: " Bethold The Monsterous Human Beast" (Gobrias)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:16
13
Recitativo: "Can You Then Think It Strange" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:16
14
Air: "Great God! Who Yet But Darkly Known" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:49
15
Recitativo: "My Friends, Be Confident" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:41
16
Chorus: "All Empires Upon God Depend"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:15
17
Air: "Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!" (Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
5:14
18
Accompagato: "Rejoice, My Countrymen" (Daniel) Air: "Thus Saith The Lord To Cyrus (Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:30
19
Chorus: "Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:11
20
Air: "Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!" (Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
5:03
21
Recitiativo: "For You, My Friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:54
22
Air: "The Leafy Honours Of The Field" (Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
7:34
23
Recustom, I May Say, The Law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:23
24
Chorus: "Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command" (Jews)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:54
25
Recitativo: "They Tell You The True" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:23
26
Duet: "Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
7:15
27
Chorus: "By Slow Degrees The Warth Of God" (Jews)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:16
28
Chorus: "See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
6:27
29
Recitativo: "You See, My Friends, A Path" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:16
30
Air: "Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:24
31
Chorus: "To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!" (Persians)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:35
32
Chorus: "Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:59
33
Air: "Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess" (Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:38
34
Accompagnato: "Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:41
35
Recitativo: "Call All My Wise Men" (Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:26
36
A Sinfony (Allegro Postillons)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:43
37
Recitativo: "Yes Sages! Welcome Always To You King" (Belshazzar) "Alas! Too Hard A Task The King ImpAnthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:06
38
Chorus: "Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:50
39
Recitativo: "Oh King, Live For Ever!" (Nicotris, Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:40
40
Air: "No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be" (Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:31
41
Accompagnato: "Yet, To Obey His Dread Command" (Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:13
42
Recitativo: "Oh Sentence Too Severe!" (Nitocris) Air: Regard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears" (Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
6:57
43
Air: Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:37
44
Recitativo: "You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:02
45
Chorus: "Oh Glorious Prince!"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:41
46
Air: "Alternate Hopes And Fears" (Nitocris)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
4:28
47
Recitativo: "Fain Would I Hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:23
48
Air: "Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?" (Daniel)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:26
49
Recitativo: "My Hopes Revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:51
50
Chorus: "Bel Boweth Down!" (Jews)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:31
51
Air: "I Thank Thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:38
52
A Martial SymphonyAnthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:39
53
Air: " To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks" (Gobrias)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:45
54
Recitativo: "Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias" (Cyrus) Air: "Destructive War, Thy Limits Know" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:55
55
Duet: "Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
3:59
56
Recitativo: "Say, Venerable Porphet" (Cyrus, DanielAnthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
0:56
57
Soli & Chorus: "Tell It Out Among The Heathen"Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
1:58
58
Accompagnato: "Yes, I Will Build The City" (Cyrus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
2:22
59
Soli & Chorus: "I Will Magnify Thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Belshazzar
5:28
