1Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 - Overture
2Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire"
3Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone"
4Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh"
5Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!"
6Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Behold, by Persia's hero made"
7Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!"
8Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Opprest with never-ceasing grief"
9Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Dry those unavailing tears"
10Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates"
11Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Now, tell me, Gobrias"
12Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Behold the monstrous human beast"
13Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Can you then think it strange"
14Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Great God! who, yet but darkly known"
15Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "My friends, be confident"
16Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "All empires upon God depend"
17Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!"
18Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus"
19Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61 / Act 1 - "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!"
20Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Let festal joy triumphant reign!"
21Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "For you, my friends"
22Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "The leafy honours of the field"
23Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "It is the custom, I may say, the law"
24Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Recall, oh king! thy rash command"
25Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "They tell you true"
26Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!"
27Handel: Belshazzar / Act 1 - "By slow degrees the wrath of God"
28Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "See, from his post Euphrates flies!"
29Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "You see, my friends, a path"
30Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Amaz'd to find the foe so near"
31Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "To arms, to arms! no more delay!"
32Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Ye tutelar gods of our empire"
33Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess"
34Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?"
35Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Call all my Wise Men"
36Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - A Sinfony
37Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes"
38Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!"
39Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh king, live for ever!"
40Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "No! to thyself thy trifles be"
41Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Yet, to obey his dread command"
42Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears"
43Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!"
44Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace"
45Handel: Belshazzar / Act 2 - "Oh glorious prince!"
46Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Alternate hopes and fears"
47Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Fain would I hope"
48Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?"
49Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "My hopes revive"
50Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Bel boweth down!"
51Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "I thank thee, Sesach"
52Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - A Martial Symphony
53Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "To pow'r immortal my first thanks"
54Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know"
55Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Great victor, at your feet I bow"
56Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Say, venerable prophet"
57Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Tell it out among the heathen"
58Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "Yes, I will build thy city"
59Handel: Belshazzar / Act 3 - "I will magnify thee"
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