Handel: Esther, HWV 50b

"Handel: Esther, HWV 50b album by Christopher Purves on Archodia Music"

Release Date: 2014-02-01T00:00:00.000000Z

  • Tyrants may awhile presume (Chorus)
  • Overture. Andante - Larghetto - Allegro
  • Breathe soft ye gales (Israelite Woman)
  • Why sits that sorrow on thy brow? (Esther)
  • Dread not, righteous Queen (Modecai)
  • Watchful angels (Israelite Woman)
  • O heaven, protect her (Israelite Woman)
  • O King of kings, celestial Lord! (Esther)
  • Duet. Blessings descend on downy wings (Israelite Woman, Mordecai)
  • Alleluia (Esther)
  • With transport, lovely queen (Mordecai)
  • I go, the pow'r of grief to prove (Esther)
  • Tears assist me, pity moving (Esther)
  • So much beauty sweetly blooming (Mordecai)
  • Save us, O Lord! (Chorus)
  • Again shall Salem, to the skies (Mordecai)
  • Who dares intrude into our presence (Ahasuerus)
  • My heart is inditing (Chorus)
  • Duet. Who calls my parting soul from death? (Esther, Ahasuerus)
  • Kings' daughters (Chorus)
  • O beauteous queen, unclose those eyes (Ahasuerus)
  • Upon the right hand (Chorus)
  • I find favour in thy sight (Esther)
  • Kings shall be thy nursing fathers (Chorus)
  • Let me with freedom thy petition know (Ahasuerus)
  • How can I stay when love invites? (Esther)
  • Endless fame (Ahasuerus)
  • With inward joy his visage glows (First Israelite)
  • 'Tis greater far to spare (Harbonah)
  • Heav'n has lent her ev'ry charm (Israelite Woman)
  • The king will listen to the royal fair (First Israelite)
  • Pluck root and branch (Harman)
  • Blessed are they that fear the Lord (Chorus)
  • Our souls with ardour glow (Officer)
  • Jehovah crown'd with glory bright (Mordecai)
  • Shall we the God of Israel fear (Chorus)
  • He comes! He comes to end our woes (Chorus)
  • Jerusalem no more shall mourn (First Israelite)
  • Now O my queen, thy suit declare (Ahasuerus)
  • Tune your harps to cheerful strains (Israelite Woman)
  • Turn not, O queen, thy face away (Haman)
  • Shall we of servitude complain (Second Israelite)
  • Praise the Lord with cheerful noise (Israelite Woman)
  • Flatt'ring tongue, no more I hear thee (Esther)
  • How have our sins provok'd the Lord! (Mordecai)
  • Guards, seize the traitor (Ahasuerus)
  • Through the nation he shall be (Ahasuerus)
  • Ye sons of Israel, mourn (Chorus) [1]
  • O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide! (Mordecai)
  • Ye sons of Israel, mourn (Chorus) [2]
  • The Lord our enemy has slain, Allelujah! (Chorus)