59Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Preserve him for the glory of Thy name
60Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Envy, eldest born of hell
61Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Hast thou obey'd my orders; Air: Sin not, O King
62Saul, HWV 53: Air: As great Jehovah lives, I swear; Air: From cities stormed, and battles won
63Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Appear, my friend
64Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: A father's will has authorized my love; Duet: O fairest of ten thousand fair
65Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Is there a man, who all his ways
6667Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Thy father is as cruel; Duet: At persecution I can laugh
68Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Whom dost thou seek; Air: No, no, let the guilty tremble
6970Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: The time at length is come; Recitative: Where is the son of Jesse?
71Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Oh, fatal consequence of rage
72Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: Wretch that I am; Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a woman
73Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: With me what would'st thou? Air: Infernal spirits
74Saul, HWV 53: Accompagnato: Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace
7576Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Whence comest thou? Air: Impious wretch, of race accurst!
77Saul, HWV 53: Symphony: Dead march
78Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Mourn, Israel, mourn
79Saul, HWV 53: Air: Brave Jonathan his bow never drew
80Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they
81Saul, HWV 53: Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they
82Saul, HWV 53: Recitative: Ye men of Judah, weep no more! Chorus: Gird on thy sword, thou man of might
83Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Overture: Largo; Allegro; Largo
84Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Mourn, ye afflicted children
85Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Well may your sorrows
86Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: For Zion lamentation make
87Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Not in vain is all this storm
88Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Pious orgies
89Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: O Father, whose almighty power
90Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Accompagnato: I feel the Deity within
91Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Arm, arm, ye brave!
92Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We come in bright array
93Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: ‘Tis well, my friends
94Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Call forth the powers
95Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty
96Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Lead on, lead on
97Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: So willed my father
98Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Disdainful of danger
99Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Ambition
100Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: No unhallowed desire
101Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Haste we, my brethren
102Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Hear us, oh Lord
103Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Fallen is the foe
104Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Zion now her head shall raise
105Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Oh let eternal honors
106Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Israelite Woman From mighty kings
107Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Hail, hail, Judea
108Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Thanks to my brethren
109Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: How vain is man
110Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Oh Judas, oh my brethren
111Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria, Chorus: Ah! Wretched Israel
112Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Be comforted
113Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: The Lord worketh wonders
114Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: My arms
115Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria, Chorus: Sound an alarm!
116Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We hear
117Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Enough! To Heaven we leave the rest
118Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With pious hearts
119Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Ye worshippers
120Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Wise men, flattering
121Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Oh! never, never bow
122Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: We never will bow down
123Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Man Father of Heaven
124Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: See yon flames
125Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Oh grant it
126Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: So shall the lute
127Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: From Capharsalama
128Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: See the Conquering hero
129Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: March
130Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet, Chorus: Sing unto god
131Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With honor let dessert
132Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: With honor let dessert
133Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Peace to my countrymen
134Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: To our great God
135Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Recitative: Again to Earth
136Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Duet: Oh lovely peace
137Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Aria: Rejoice oh Judah
138Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Chorus: Hallelujah, Amen
139140Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Behold! Auspicious flashes rise
141Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Lucky omens bless our rites
142Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Arioso and Duet: Daughter, obey
143Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me!; Air: O Jove
144Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Alas! She yields; Quartet: Why dost thou thus untimely grieve
145Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes; Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno; Chorus: Cease, cease your vows
146Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Again auspicious flashes; Recitative: Thy aid, pronubial Juno; Chorus: Cease, cease your vows
147Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Ah, wretched prince; Accompagnato: Wing’d with our fears and pious haste
148Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Hail Cadmus, hail
149Semele, HWV 58: Aria and Chorus: Endless Pleasure
150151Semele, HWV 58: Accompangnato: Awake, Saturnia!; Recitative; Accompagnato: With adamant the gates are barr’d; Air: Hence, Iris,
152Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me
153Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Let me not another moment; Aria: Lay your doubts and fears aside
154Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: You are mortal; Air: With fond desiring; Chorus: How engaging, how endearing
155Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Ah, me!; Aria: I must with speed amuse her
156Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Now Love
157Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: By my command; Aria: Where’er you walk
158Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dear sister, how was your journey hither? Aria: But hark, the heav’nly spehere turns around
159Semele, HWV 58: Duet: Prepare then, ye immortal choir
160Semele, HWV 58: Chorus: Bless the glad earth
161162Semele, HWV 58: Accomagnato: Somnus, awake!; Aria: Leave me, loathsome light
163Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Dull God, canst thou attend; Aria: More sweet is that name
164Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: My will obey
165Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Myself I shall adore
166Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Be wise, as you are beautiful; Accompagnato: Conjure him by his oath; Aria: Thus let my thanks be paid
167Semele, HWV 58: Recitative, Aria: Rich odours fill the fragrant air; Aria: Come to my arms
168Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Oh Semele!; Aria: I am ever granting
169Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Speak, speak your desire; Accompagnato: By that tremendous flood
170Semele, HWV 58: Aria: No, no, I'll take no less
171Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, whither is she gone
172Semele, HWV 58: Aria: Above measure is the pleasure
173Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Ah, me! Too late now I repent
174Semele, HWV 58: Recitative: Of my ill-boding dream; Chorus: Oh, terror and astonishment
175176Semele, HWV 58: Accompagnato: Apollo comes; Chorus: Happy, happy shall we be
177Theodora, HWV 68: Overture
178Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis Dioclesian's natal day; Air: Go, my faithful soldier, go
179Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Vouchsafe, dread lord, a gracious ear; Air: Racks, gibbets, sword and fire
180Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: For ever thus stands fixed the doom
181Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Most cruel decree; sure thy noble soul; Air: The raptur'd soul defies the sword
182Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: I know thy virtures, and ask not thy faith; Air: Descend, kind pity, heav'nly guest
183Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Through hard, my friends; Air: Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu
184Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh bright example of all goodness
185Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Come, mighty Father, mighty Lord
186Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Fly, fly, my brethren, heathen rage pursues us swift; Air: As with rosy steps the morn
187Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: All pow'r in Heaven above, or earth beneath
188Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh retched retches
189Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Oh, worse than death indeed!; Air: Angels, ever bright and fair
190Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Unhappy, happy crew! Why stand you thus
191Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Kind Heaven, if virtue be Thy care
192Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Oh Love, how great thy power! Chorus: Go, gen'rous, pious youth
193Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ye men of Antioch, with solemn pomp; Chorus: Queen of summer, queen of love
194Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Wide spread his name
195Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Return, Septimius, to the stubborn maid; Chorus: Venus laughing from the skies
196Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony
197Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O thou bright sun! How sweet thy rays; Air: With darkness deep, as is my woe
198Theodora, HWV 68: Symphony
199Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But why art thou disquieted; Air: Oh, that I on wings could rise
200Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Long have I known thy friendly social soul; Air: Though the honours that Flora and Venus receive
201Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save her, then, or give me power to save
202Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: The clouds begin to veil the hemisphere; Air: Defend her, Heav'n! Let angels spread
203Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Or lulled with grief or rapt her soul to heaven; Air: Sweet rose and lily, flow'ry form
204Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: O save me, Heaven, in this my perilous hour
205Theodora, HWV 68: Air: The pilgrim's home, the sick man's health
206Theodora, HWV 68: Accompagnato: Forbid it, Heaven!
207Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: To thee, thou glorious son of wrath
208Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: 'Tis night; but night's sweet blessing is denied
209Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: He saw the lovely youth, death's early prey
210Theodora, HWV 68: Aria: Lord, to Thee, each night and day
211Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: But see, the good, the virtuous Didimus
212Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Blest be the hand, and blest the power
213Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Undanted in the court stands Didimus
214Theodora, HWV 68: Duet: Whither, Princess, do you fly?
215Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: She's gone, disdaining liberty and life
216Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: It is a Christian virtue then
217Theodora, HWV 68: Air: Cease, ye slaves, your fruitless prayer
218Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: ‘Tis kind, my friends, but kinder still
219Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: How strange their ends
220Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: On me your frowns your utmost rage exert
221Theodora, HWV 68: Air and Duet: Streams of pleasure ever flowing
222Theodora, HWV 68: Recitative: Ere this their doom is past, and they are gone
223Theodora, HWV 68: Chorus: Oh love divine, thou source of fame
224Messiah, HWV 56: Sinfonia
225Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Comfort ye my people
226Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Ev'ry valley shall be exalted
227Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And the glory, the glory of the Lord
228Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thus saith the Lord
229Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But who may abide
230Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And He shall purify
231Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, a virgin shall conceive
232Messiah, HWV 56: Air & Chorus: O thou that tellest
233Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth
234Messiah, HWV 56: Air-Bass: The people that walked in darkness
235Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: For unto us a child is born
236Messiah, HWV 56: PIFA (Pastoral Symphony)
237Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: There were shepherds; And lo, the Angel of the Lord
238Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And the angel said unto them
239Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: And suddenly there was the angel
240Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Glory to God in the highest
241Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion
242Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall the eyes of the blind
243Duet: And he shall feed his flock
244Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: His yoke is easy
245Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Behold the Lamb of God
246Messiah, HWV 56: Air: He was despised
247Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Surely he hath borne our griefs
248Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: And with His stripes we are healed
249Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: All we like sheep
250Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative-Tenor: All they that see Him
251Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: He trusted in God
252Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Thy rebuke hath broken His heart
253Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Behold, and see if there be any sorrow
254Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He was cut off out of the land
255Messiah, HWV 56: Air: But thou didst not leave
256Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Lift up your heads
257Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Unto which of the angels
258Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let all the angels of God worship Him
259Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou art gone up on high
260Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: The Lord gave the word
261Messiah, HWV 56: Air: How beautiful are the feet
262Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Their sound is gone out
263Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Why do the nations?
264Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Let us break their bonds asunder
265Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: He that dwelleth in heaven
266Messiah, HWV 56: Air: Thou shalt break them
267Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Hallelujah
268Messiah, HWV 56: Air: I know that my Redeemer liveth
269Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Since by man came death
270Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Behold, I tell you a mystery
271Messiah, HWV 56: Air: The trumpet shall sound
272Messiah, HWV 56: Recitative: Then shall be brought to pass
273Messiah, HWV 56: Duet: O death, where is thy sting?
274Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: But thanks be to God
275Messiah, HWV 56: Air: If God be for us
276Messiah, HWV 56: Chorus: Worthy is the Lamb...Amen
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