Handel: Alexander Balus

The King's Consort, George Frideric Handel & Robert King

66 SONGS • 2 STUNDEN UND 35 MINUTEN • OCT 01 1997

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 1, Chorus. Flush'd with Conquest, Fir'd by Mithra (Asiates)

Robert King, Choir of The King's Consort, Choir of New College Oxford, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

03:11

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 2, Recit. Thus Far, Ye Glorious Partners of the War (Alexander/Jonathan)

Catherine Denley, Charles Daniels, Robert King, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

01:29

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 3, Air. Great Author of This Harmony (Jonathan)

Charles Daniels, Robert King, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

03:18

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 4. Flourish of Trumpets

Robert King, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

00:12

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 5, Recit. And Thus Let Happy Egypt's King (Ptolomee)

Michael George, Robert King, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

00:24

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 6, Air. Thrice Happy the Monarch, Whom Nations Content (Ptolomee)

Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

03:43

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 7, Recit. Congratulation to Our Father's Friend (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:26

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 8, Air. Hark! Hark! He Strikes the Golden Lyre (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

05:59

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 9, Recit. Be It My Chief Ambition There to Rise (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:14

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 10, Air. Fair Virtue Shall Charm Me (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:24

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 1: No. 11, Chorus. Ye Happy Nations Round (Asiates)

Choir of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King, Choir of New College Oxford & George Frideric Handel

03:02

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 1, Recit. My Jonathan (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:35

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 2: No. 2, Air. Oh, What Resistless Charms Are Giv'n (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

04:14

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 1, Air. Subtle Love, with Fancy Viewing (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

04:55

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 2, Recit. Aspasia, I Know Not What to Call (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:46

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 3, Air. How Happy Should We Mortals Prove (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:26

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 4, Recit. Check Not the Pleasing Accents of Thy Tongue (Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:25

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 5, Air. So Shall the Sweet Attractive Smile (Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:40

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 6, Recit. How Blissful State! (Cleopatra/Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King, Lynne Dawson & George Frideric Handel

00:27

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 3: No. 7, Duet. O What Pleasures, Past Expressing (Cleopatra/Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King, Lynne Dawson & George Frideric Handel

03:01

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 1, Recit. Why Hangs This Heavy Gloom upon the Brow (Jonathan/Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King, Charles Daniels & George Frideric Handel

01:00

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 4: No. 2, Air. Heroes May Boast Their Mighty Deed (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

04:53

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 5: No. 1, Recit. Ye Sons of Judah, with High Festival (Jonathan)

The King's Consort, Robert King, Charles Daniels & George Frideric Handel

00:31

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act I Scene 5: No. 2, Air with Chorus. Great God, from Whom All Blessings Spring (Jonathan/Israelites)

Charles Daniels, Choir of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King, Choir of New College Oxford & George Frideric Handel

04:38

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 1, Air. Kind Hope, Thou Universal Friend (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

06:04

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 2, Recit. Long, Long and Happy Live the King! (Jonathan/Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King, Charles Daniels & George Frideric Handel

00:40

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 3, Air. O Mithra, with Thy Brightest Beams (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

04:18

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 4, Recit. Stay, My Dread Sovereign (Sycophant Courtier/Alexander/Jonathan)

Catherine Denley, Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King, Charles Pott & George Frideric Handel

01:39

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 5, Air. Mighty Love Now Calls to Arm (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:36

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 6, Air. Hateful Man! Thy Sland'rous Tongue (Jonathan)

Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

04:21

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 1: No. 7, Chorus. O Calumny, on Virtue Waiting (Israelites)

Choir of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King, Choir of New College Oxford & George Frideric Handel

04:22

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 2: No. 1, Recit. Ah! Whence These Dire Forebodings of the Mind? (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:39

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 2: No. 2, Air. Tossed from Thought to Thought I Rove (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

06:29

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 2: No. 3, Recit. Give to the Winds, Fair Princess, These Vain Doubts (Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:23

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 2: No. 4, Air. Love, Glory, Ambition, Whate'er Can Inspire (Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:51

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 3: No., Recit. Thus Far My Wishes Thrive (Ptolomee)

Michael George, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:54

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 3: No. 1, Air. Virtue, Thou Ideal Name (Ptolomee)

Michael George, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

03:44

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 4: No. 2, Accompagnato. Ye Happy People, with Loud Accents Speak (Jonathan)

Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:38

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 4: No. 1, Soli with Chorus. Triumph Hymen in the Pair

Charles Daniels, Charles Humphries, Robert King, Choir of The King's Consort, Choir of New College Oxford, Claron McFadden & George Frideric Handel

02:41

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 4: No. 2, Recit. Glad Time, at Length, Hath Reach'd the Happy Point (Alexander/Cleopatra)

The King's Consort, Robert King, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Denley & George Frideric Handel

00:48

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 4: No. 3, Duet. Hail Wedded Love, Mysterious Law! (Alexander/Cleopatra)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King, Lynne Dawson & George Frideric Handel

03:39

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act II Scene 4: No. 4, Chorus. Hymen, Fair Urania's Son (Asiates)

Choir of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King, Choir of New College Oxford & George Frideric Handel

02:38

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III: Introduction. Sinfonia

The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

01:16

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 1: No. 1, Recit. 'Tis True, Instinctive Nature Seldom Points (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:30

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 1: No. 2, Air with Chorus. Here Amid the Shady Woods (Cleopatra/Ruffians)

Choir of The King's Consort, Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King, Choir of New College Oxford & George Frideric Handel

04:17

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 1, Recit. Ah! Was It Not My Cleopatra's Voice? (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:41

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 2, Air. Pow'rful Guardians of All Nature (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:53

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 3, Recit. Treach'ry, O King, Unheard of Treachery (Jonathan/Alexander/Aspasia)

Catherine Denley, Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King, Claron McFadden & George Frideric Handel

01:23

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 4, Air. Fury, with Red Sparkling Eyes (Alexander)

Catherine Denley, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

06:24

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 5, Recit. Gods! Can There Be a More Afflicting Sight (Aspasia)

The King's Consort, Robert King, Claron McFadden & George Frideric Handel

00:25

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 6, Air. Strange Reverse of Human Fate (Aspasia)

Claron McFadden, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:50

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 7, Recit. May He Return with Laurel'd Victory (Jonathan)

Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:27

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 8, Air. To God Who Made the Radiant Sun (Jonathan)

Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

03:14

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 2: No. 9, Chorus. Sun, Moon, and Stars, and All Ye Host of Heav'n (Israelites)

Choir of The King's Consort, The King's Consort, Robert King, Choir of New College Oxford & George Frideric Handel

02:51

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 3: No. 1, Recit. Yes He Was False, My Daughter, False to You (Jonathan/Cleopatra)

Charles Daniels, The King's Consort, Robert King, Lynne Dawson & George Frideric Handel

01:20

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 3: No. 2, Accompagnato. Ungrateful Child, by Ev'ry Sacred Pow'r (Ptolomee)

Michael George, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:26

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 3: No. 3, Air. O Sword, and Thou, All-Daring Hand (Ptolomee)

Michael George, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

02:51

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 1, Accompagnato. Shall Cleopatra Ever Smile Again? (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

00:43

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 2, Recit. Ungrateful Tidings to the Royal Ear (Messenger)

Tom Raskin, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

01:23

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 3, Air. O Take Me from This Hateful Light (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

05:18

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 4, Recit. Forgive, O Queen, the Messenger of Ill! (Second Messenger/Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort, Simon Birchall, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

01:23

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 5, Accompagnato. Calm Thou My Soul (Cleopatra)

Lynne Dawson, Robert King, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

00:48

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 4: No. 6, Air. Convey Me to Some Peaceful Shore (Cleopatra)

Robert King, Lynne Dawson, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

02:42

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 5: No. 1, Recit. Mysterious Are Thy Ways, O Providence! (Jonathan)

Robert King, Charles Daniels, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

01:20

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Handel: Alexander Balus, HWV 65, Act III Scene 5: No. 2, Chorus with Solo. Ye Servants of th' Eternal King (Jonathan/Israelites)

Charles Daniels, Choir of The King's Consort, Choir of New College Oxford, Robert King, The King's Consort & George Frideric Handel

03:21

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