Handel: Solomon (The Beecham Collection)

"Handel: Solomon (The Beecham Collection) album by George Frideric Handel on MusicBox"

Release Date: 2014-02-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Overture
  • Chorus. Your harps and cymbals sound (Chorus of Priests)
  • Accompagnato. Almighty pow'r, who rul'st! (Solomon)
  • Chorus. With pious hearts and holy tongue (Chorus of Priests)
  • Recitative. Imperial Solomon, thy pray'rs are heard (Zadok)
  • Air. Sacred raptures cheer my breast (Zadok)
  • Recitative. Bless'd be the Lord (Solomon)
  • Air. What tho' I trace each herb and flow'r (Solomon)
  • Air. Bless'd the day when first my eyes (Queen)
  • Recitative. Thou fair inhabitant of Nile - Oh Monarch! With each virtue bless'd (Solomon, Queen)
  • Duet. Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon, Queen)
  • Recitative. When thou art absent from my sight (Queen)
  • Air. With thee th'unshelter'd moor I tread (Queen)
  • Recitative. My blooming fair, come, come away (Solomon)
  • May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours (Chorus)
  • Sinfonia, "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
  • Recitative. From Arabia's spicy shores (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
  • Air. Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba)
  • Recitative. Sweep, sweep the string (Solomon)
  • Air and Chorus. Music, spread thy voice around (Solomon, Chorus)
  • Air and Chorus. Now a diff'rent measure try - Shake the dome, and pierce the sky (Solomon, Chorus)
  • Recitative. Then at once from rage remove (Solomon)
  • Chorus. Draw the tear from hopeless love
  • Recitative. Next the tortur'd soul release (Solomon)
  • Air and Chorus. Thus rolling surges rise (Solomon)
  • Recitative. Thy Harmony's divine, great King! (Queen of Sheba)
  • Chorus. From the censer curling rise
  • Chorus. From the east unto the west (Chorus of Israelites)
  • Recitative. Thrice happy king, to have achiev'd (Zadok)
  • Air. Golden columns, fair and bright (Zadok)
  • Air. Beneath the vine, or fig-tree's shade (First Harlot)
  • Gold now Is common on our happy shores (Solomon)
  • Air. How green our fertile pastures look (Solomon)
  • Chorus. Swell, swell the full chorus (Chorus of Priests)
  • Recitative. May peace in Salem ever dwell (Queen of Sheba)
  • Air. Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba)
  • Recitative. Adieu, fair queen (Solomon)
  • Chorus. Praise the Lord with harp and tongue