The Handel Collection

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Overture
• 2. This Day, a Solemn Feast to Dagon Held
• 3. Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
• 4. Ye Men of Gaza
• 5. Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
• 6. Loud As the Thunder's Awful Voice
• 7. Then Free from Sorrow, Free from Thrall
• 8. Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound!
• 9. Why By an Angel Was My Birth Foretold
• 10. Torments Alas! Are Not Confin'd
• 11. O Change Beyond Report, Thought, Or Belief!
• 12. O Mirror of Our Fickle State
• 13. Whom Have I to Complain of But Myself
• 14. Totel Eclipse!
• 15. Since Light So Necessary Is to Life
• 16. Oh First Created Beam!
• 17. Ye See, My Friends, How Woes Enclosed Me Round
• 18. Brethren and Men of Dan, Say, Where Is My Son
• 19. Oh Miserable Change!
• 20. Oh Ever Failing Trust in Mortal Strength!
• 21. God of Our Fathers, What Is Man?
• 22. The Good We Wish For, Often Proves Our Bane
• 23. Thy Glorious Deeds Inspir'd My Tongue
• 24. Justly These Evils Have Befall'n Thy Son
• 25. My Griefs for This
• 26. Why Does the God of Israel Sleep?
• 27. These Lies Our Hope!
• 28. Then Shall They Know
• 29. For Thee, My Dearest Son
• 30. Then Long Eternity Shall Greet Your Bliss
• 31. Then Round About the Starry Throne

Disc 2

• 1. Despair Not Thus!
• 2. Just Are the Ways of God to Man
• 3. My Evils Hopeless Are!
• 4. Return, Oh God of Hosts! - To Dust His Glory
• 5. But Who Is This, That So Bedeck'd and Gay
• 6. With Plaintive Notes and Am'rous Moan
• 7. Alas! Th'event Was Worse Than I Foresaw
• 8. Your Charms to Ruin Led the Way
• 9. Forgive What's Done, Nor Think of What's Past Cure
• 10. My Faith and Truth - Her Faith and Truth
• 11. To Fleeting Pleasures Make Your Court - Her Faith and Truth
• 12. Ne'er Think of That!
• 13. Traitor to Love! - She's Gone!
• 14. It Is Not Virtue, Valour, Wit
• 15. Favour'd of Heaven Is He
• 16. To Man God's Universal Law
• 17. No Words of Peace
• 18. Honour and Arms Scorn Such a Foe
• 19. Put On Your Arms
• 20. My Strength Is from the Living God
• 21. With Thee! A Man Condemn'd
• 22. Go, Baffled Coward, Go
• 23. Here Lie the Proof
• 24. Hear, Jacob's God, Jehovah
• 25. Dagon, Arise!
• 26. To Song and Dance We Give the Day
• 27. To Song and Dance We Give the Day
• 28. Fix'd in His Everlasting Seat

Disc 3

• 1. More Trouble Is Behind
• 2. Presuming Slave, to Move Their Wrath
• 3. Reflect Then, Samson, Matters Now Are Strain'd
• 4. With Thunder Arm'd Great God, Arise!
• 5. Be of Good Courage
• 6. Thus When the Sun From's Wat'ry Bed
• 7. With Might Endued Above the Sons of Men
• 8. The Holy One of Israel Be Thy Guide - To Fame Immortal Go
• 9. Old Manoa, With Youthful Steps, Makes Haste
• 10. Great Dagon Has Subdued Our Foe
• 11. What Noise of Joy Was That?
• 12. How Willing My Paternal Love
• 13. Your Hopes of His Deliv'ry Seem Not Vain - Hear Us, Our God!
• 14. Noise Call You This
• 15. Where Shall I Run
• 16. Ye Sons of Israel, Now Lament - Weep Israel
• 17. Proceed We Hence to Find His Body
• 18. Dead March
• 19. The Body Comes
• 20. Glorious Hero, May Thy Grave Peace
• 21. Come! No Time for Lamentation Now
• 22. Let the Bright Seraphim in Burning Row

Disc 4

• 1. Now There Arose a New King Over Egypt
• 2. And the Children of Israel Sighed
• 3. Then Sent He Moses
• 4. They Loathed to Drink of the River
• 5. Their Land Brought Forth Frogs
• 6. He Spake the Word
• 7. He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain
• 8. He Sent a Thick Darkness Over All the Land
• 9. He Smote All the First-born of Egypt
• 10. But As for His People
• 11. Egypt Was Glad When They Departed
• 12. He Rebuked the Red Sea
• 13. He Led Them Through the Deep
• 14. But the Waters Overwhelmed Their Enemies
• 15. And Israel Saw That Great Work
• 16. And Believed the Lord
• 17. Larghetto
• 18. Moses and the Children of Israel
• 19. I Will Sing Unto the Lord
• 20. He Is My God
• 21. And I Will Exalt Him
• 22. The Lord Is a Man of War
• 23. The Depths Have Covered Them
• 24. Thy Right Hand, O Lord
• 25. And in the Greatness of Thine Excellency
• 26. Thou Sentest Forth Thy Wrath
• 27. And With the Blast of Thy Nostrils
• 28. The People Shall Hear
• 29. Largo
• 30. The Lord Shall Reign for Ever and Ever
• 31. For the Horse of Pharaoh
• 32. The Lord Shall Reign for Ever and Ever
• 33. And Miriam the Prophetess
• 34. Sing Ye to the Lord

Disc 5

• 1. Overture
• 2. 'Tis Greater Far to Spare
• 3. Pluck Root and Branch from Out the Land
• 4. Our Souls With Ardour Glow
• 5. Shall We the God of Israel Fear?
• 6. Now Persecution Shall Lay By Her Iron Rod
• 7. Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains
• 8. Shall We of Servitude Complain
• 9. Praise the Lord With Cheerful Noise
• 10. O God, Who from the Sucklings's Mouth
• 11. Sing Songs of Praise, Bow Down the Knee
• 12. Shall We of Servitude Complain
• 13. How Have Our Sins Provoked the Lord
• 14. Ye Sons of Israel Mourn
• 15. O Jordan, Jordan, Sacred Tide
• 16. Ye Sons of Israel Mourn
• 17. Andante - Anthony Robson
• 18. Allegro - Anthony Robson
• 19. Adagio - Anthony Robson
• 20. Allegro - Anthony Robson

Disc 6

• 1. Why Sits That Sorrow On Thy Brow?
• 2. Dread Not, Righteous Queen, the Danger
• 3. I Go Before the King to Stand
• 4. Tears Assist Me, Pity Moving
• 5. Save Us, O Lord
• 6. Who Dares Intrude Into Our Presence
• 7. Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?
• 8. O Beauteous Queen, Unclose Those Eyes!
• 9. If I Find Favour in Thy Sight
• 10. How Can I Stay When Love Invites?
• 11. With Inward Joy His Visage Glows
• 12. Virtue, Truth and Innocence
• 13. Jehovah, Crown'd With Glory Bright
• 14. He Comes, He Comes to End Our Woes
• 15. Now, O Queen, Thy Suit Declare
• 16. Turn Not, O Queen, Thy Face Away
• 17. Flatt'ring Tongue, No More I Hear Thee!
• 18. Guards, Seize the Traitor, Bear Him Hence!
• 19. How Art Thou Fall'n from Thy Height!
• 20. The Lord Our Enemy Has Slain

Disc 7

• 1. Sinfonia - Sarah Connolly
• 2. Sta Nell' Ircana - Sarah Connolly
• 3. Mi Lusingha Il Dolce Affetto - Sarah Connolly
• 4. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Sarah Connolly
• 5. Will the Sun Forget to Streak? - Sarah Connolly
• 6. Sinfonia - Sarah Connolly
• 7. Scherzo Infida - Sarah Connolly
• 8. Dopo Notte - Sarah Connolly
• 9. Entree Des Songes Agreables - Sarah Connolly
• 10. Verdi Prati - Sarah Connolly
• 11. Sinfonia - Sarah Connolly
• 12. Cease, Ruler of the Day - Sarah Connolly
• 13. Where Shall I Fly - Sarah Connolly

Disc 8

• 1. Overture
• 2. 'Twas at the Royal Feast
• 3. Happy, Happy, Happy Pair
• 4. Timotheus Plac'd On High
• 5. Allegro - Andrew Lawrence-King
• 6. Larghetto - Andrew Lawrence-King
• 7. Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35 - Andrew Lawrence-King
• 8. Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize
• 9. The List'ning Crowd
• 10. With Ravish'd Ears
• 11. The Praise of Bacchus
• 12. Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young
• 13. Sooth'd With the Sound
• 14. He Chose a Mournful Muse
• 15. He Sung Darius Great and Good
• 16. With Downcast Looks
• 17. Behold Darius Great and Good
• 18. The Mighty Master Smil'd to See
• 19. Softly Sweet
• 20. War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble
• 21. The Many Rend the Skies
• 22. The Prince, Unable to Conceal
• 23. The Many Rend the Skies

Disc 9

• 1. Now Strike the Golden Lyre
• 2. Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries
• 3. Give the Vengeance Due
• 4. The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy
• 5. Thais Led the Way
• 6. Thus Long Ago
• 7. At Last Divine Cecilia Came
• 8. The Song Began from Jove
• 9. Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize
• 10. Larghetto E Staccato - Paul Nicholson
• 11. Allegro - Paul Nicholson
• 12. Adagio - Paul Nicholson
• 13. Andante - Paul Nicholson
• 14. Your Voices

Disc 10

• 1. Clori, Mia Bella Clori - Ann Murray
• 2. Chiari Lumi - Ann Murray
• 3. Temo Ma Pure Io Spero - Ann Murray
• 4. Ne'gigli E Nelle Rose - Ann Murray
• 5. Non E Pero - Ann Murray
• 6. Mie Pupille - Ann Murray
• 7. Tu, Nobil Alma - Ann Murray
• 8. Di Gelosia Il Timore - Ann Murray
• 9. Dietro, L'orme Fugaci - Ann Murray
• 10. Ah, Crudele - Ann Murray
• 11. Per Te Mi Struggo - Ann Murray
• 12. O Voi, Dell'incostante - Ann Murray
• 13. Venti, Fermate, Si - Ann Murray
• 14. Ma Che Parlo - Ann Murray
• 15. In Tanti Affanni Miei - Ann Murray
• 16. Introduction - Ann Murray
• 17. Da Quel Giorno Fatale - Ann Murray
• 18. Un Pensiero Voli in Ciel - Ann Murray
• 19. Ma Fermati, Pensier - Ann Murray
• 20. Per Te Lasciai La Luce - Ann Murray
• 21. Non Ti Bastava, Ingrato - Ann Murray
• 22. Lascia Omai - Ann Murray
• 23. Ma Siamo Giunti in Lete - Ann Murray
• 24. Entree - Ann Murray
• 25. In Queste Amene - Ann Murray
• 26. Si, Disse Clori - Ann Murray
• 27. Minuet - Ann Murray

Disc 11

• 1. Dunque Sara Pur Vero - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 2. Orrida, Oscura L'etra - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 3. Ma Pria Che D'empia Morte - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 4. Renda Cenere Il Tiranno - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 5. Si, Si, Del Gran Tiranno - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 6. Come, O Dio - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 7. Se Infelice Al Mondo Vissi - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 8. Trema L'ingrato Figlio - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 9. Su Lacerate Il Seno - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 10. Nel Dolce Dell'oblio, HWV134 - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 11. Tu Fedel? - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 12. Cento Belle Ami Fileno - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 13. L'occhio Nero Vivace - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 14. Se Licori, Fili Ed Io - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 15. Ma, Se Non Hai Piu - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 16. Se Non Ti Piace Amarmi - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 17. Ma Il Tuo Genio Incostante - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 18. Si Crudel, Ti Lasciero - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 19. Dietro L'orme Fugaci - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 20. Ah, Crudele! - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 21. Per Te Mi Struggo, Infido - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 22. O Voi, Dell' Incostante - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 23. Venti, Fermate, Si - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 24. Ma Che Parlo, Che Dico? - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention
• 25. In Tanti Affanni Miei - Elin Manahan Thomas/The Symphony Of Harmony And Invention

Disc 12

• 1. The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - The Sixteen Orchestra
• 2. My Heart Is Inditing - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 3. Kings' Daughters - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 4. Upon Thy Right Hand - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 5. Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing Fathers - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 6. Allegro - Alastair Ross/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 7. Andante - Alastair Ross/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 8. Adagio - Alastair Ross/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 9. Allegro - Alastair Ross/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 10. Zadok the Priest - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 11. The King Shall Rejoice - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 12. Exceeding Glad Shall He Be - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 13. Glory and Worship - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 14. Alleluia - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 15. Overture - The Sixteen Orchestra
• 16. Let Thy Hand Be Stengthened - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 17. Let Justice and Judgement - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 18. Alleluia - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 19. Worthy Is the Lamb That Was Slain - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra
• 20. Amen - The Sixteen/The Sixteen Orchestra