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Saul, HWV 53: Trio: Along the monster atheist strode; Chorus: The youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: How excellent Thy name, O Lord
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Behold, O King; Air: O King, your favours with delight
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Oh,early piety!; Recitative: Thou, Merab, first in birth; Air: My soul rejects the thought with scorn
Saul, HWV 53: Air: See, with what a scornful air
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Already see the daughters of the land; Chorus: Welcome, welcome, mighty king!
Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: What do I hear? Am I then sunk so low; Chorus: David his ten thousands slew
Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: To him ten thousands, and to me but thousands!; Air: With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Imprudent women! Air: Fell rage and black despair possess'd
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Racked with infernal pains; Air: O Lord, whose mercies numberless
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: 'Tis all in vain; Air: A serpent, in my bosom warm'd
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Has he escap'd my rage? Accompagnato: O filial piety!; Air: No, cruel father, no!
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Preserve him for the glory of Thy name
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Envy, eldest born of hell
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Hast thou obey'd my orders; Air: Sin not, O King
Saul, HWV 53: Air: As great Jehovah lives, I swear; Air: From cities stormed, and battles won
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Appear, my friend
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: A father's will has authorized my love; Duet: O fairest of ten thousand fair
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Is there a man, who all his ways
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Thy father is as cruel; Duet: At persecution I can laugh
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Whom dost thou seek; Air: No, no, let the guilty tremble
Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: The time at length is come; Recitative: Where is the son of Jesse?
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Oh, fatal consequence of rage
Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: Wretch that I am; Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a woman
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: With me what would'st thou? Air: Infernal spirits
Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Whence comest thou? Air: Impious wretch, of race accurst!
Saul, HWV 53: Symphony: Dead march
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Mourn, Israel, mourn
Saul, HWV 53: Air: Brave Jonathan his bow never drew
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they
Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they
Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Ye men of Judah, weep no more! Chorus: Gird on thy sword, thou man of might
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Overture: Largo; Allegro; Largo
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Mourn, ye afflicted children
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Well may your sorrows
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: For Zion lamentation make
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Not in vain is all this storm
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Pious orgies
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: O Father, whose almighty power
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Accompagnato: I feel the Deity within
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Arm, arm, ye brave!
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We come in bright array
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: ‘Tis well, my friends
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Call forth the powers
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Lead on, lead on
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: So willed my father
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Disdainful of danger
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Ambition
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: No unhallowed desire
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Haste we, my brethren
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Hear us, oh Lord
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Fallen is the foe
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Zion now her head shall raise
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Oh let eternal honors
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Israelite Woman From mighty kings
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Hail, hail, Judea
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Thanks to my brethren
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: How vain is man
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Oh Judas, oh my brethren
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria, Chorus: Ah! Wretched Israel
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Be comforted
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: The Lord worketh wonders
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: My arms
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria, Chorus: Sound an alarm!
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We hear
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Enough! To Heaven we leave the rest
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With pious hearts
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Ye worshippers
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Wise men, flattering
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Oh! never, never bow
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We never will bow down
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Man Father of Heaven
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: See yon flames
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Oh grant it
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: So shall the lute
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: From Capharsalama
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: See the Conquering hero
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: March
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Sing unto god
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With honor let dessert
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With honor let dessert
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Peace to my countrymen
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: To our great God
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Again to Earth
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Oh lovely peace
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Rejoice oh Judah
Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Hallelujah, Amen
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise
Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Lucky omens bless our rites
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Arioso and Duet: Daughter, obey
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me!; Air: O Jove
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Alas! She yields; Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes; Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno; Chorus: Cease, cease your vows
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes; Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno; Chorus: Cease, cease your vows
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Ah, wretched prince; Accompagnato: Wing’d with our fears and pious haste
Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Hail Cadmus, hail
Semele, HWV 58: Aria and Chorus: Endless Pleasure
Semele, HWV 58: Accompangnato: Awake, Saturnia!; Recitative; Accompagnato: With adamant the gates are barr’d; Air: Hence, Iris,
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Let me not another moment; Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: You are mortal; Air: With fond desiring; Chorus: How engaging, how endearing
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Ah, me!; Aria: I must with speed amuse her
Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Now Love
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: By my command; Aria: Where’er you walk
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your journey hither? Aria: But hark, the heav’nly spehere turns around
Semele, HWV 58: Duet: Prepare then, ye immortal choir
Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Bless the glad earth
Semele, HWV 58: Accomagnato: Somnus, awake!; Aria: Leave me, loathsome light
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend; Aria: More sweet is that name
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: My will obey
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Myself I shall adore
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful; Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath; Aria: Thus let my thanks be paid
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Aria: Rich odours fill the fragrant air; Aria: Come to my arms
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Oh Semele!; Aria: I am ever granting
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire; Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, whither is she gone
Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me! Too late now I repent
Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream; Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment
Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Apollo comes; Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be
Theodora, HWV 68: Overture
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis Dioclesian's natal day; Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread lord, a gracious ear; Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: For ever thus stands fixed the doom
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Most cruel decree; sure thy noble soul; Air: The raptur'd soul defies the sword
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: I know thy virtures, and ask not thy faith; Air: Descend, kind pity, heav'nly guest
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Through hard, my friends; Air: Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh bright example of all goodness
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Fly, fly, my brethren, heathen rage pursues us swift; Air: As with rosy steps the morn
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: All pow'r in Heaven above, or earth beneath
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh retched retches
Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Oh, worse than death indeed!; Air: Angels, ever bright and fair
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Unhappy, happy crew! Why stand you thus
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Kind Heaven, if virtue be Thy care
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh Love, how great thy power! Chorus: Go, gen'rous, pious youth
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp; Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Wide spread his name
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid; Chorus: Venus laughing from the skies
Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays; Air: With darkness deep, as is my woe
Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But why art thou disquieted; Air: Oh, that I on wings could rise
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Long have I known thy friendly social soul; Air: Though the honours that Flora and Venus receive
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save her, then, or give me power to save
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere; Air: Defend her, Heav'n! Let angels spread
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Or lulled with grief or rapt her soul to heaven; Air: Sweet rose and lily, flow'ry form
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save me, Heaven, in this my perilous hour
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health
Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heaven!
Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of wrath
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: 'Tis night; but night's sweet blessing is denied
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: He saw the lovely youth, death's early prey
Theodora, HWV 68: Aria: Lord, to Thee, each night and day
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But see, the good, the virtuous Didimus
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Blest be the hand, and blest the power
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Undanted in the court stands Didimus
Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly?
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: She's gone, disdaining liberty and life
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: It is a Christian virtue then
Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless prayer
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: How strange their ends
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert
Theodora, HWV 68: Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing
Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ere this their doom is past, and they are gone
Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Oh love divine, thou source of fame
Messiah, HWV 56: Sinfonia
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Comfort ye my people
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thus saith the Lord
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But who may abide
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And He shall purify
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive
Messiah, HWV 56: Air & Chorus: O thou that tellest
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
Messiah, HWV 56: Air-Bass: The people that walked in darkness
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: For unto us a child is born
Messiah, HWV 56: PIFA (Pastoral Symphony)
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: There were shepherds; And lo, the Angel of the Lord
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And the angel said unto them
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And suddenly there was the angel
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind
Duet: And he shall feed his flock
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: His yoke is easy
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: He was despised
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: All we like sheep
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative-Tenor: All they that see Him
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: He trusted in God
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He was cut off out of the land
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But thou didst not leave
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Lift up your heads
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Unto which of the angels
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship Him
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou art gone up on high
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: The Lord gave the word
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: How beautiful are the feet
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Their sound is gone out
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Why do the nations?
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou shalt break them
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Hallelujah
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Since by man came death
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: The trumpet shall sound
Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass
Messiah, HWV 56: Duet: O death, where is thy sting?
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: But thanks be to God
Messiah, HWV 56: Air: If God be for us
Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb...Amen
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