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