tracks

Ouverture (Maestoso - Allegro)
Accompagnato Ed Arioso: "Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire" (Nitocris)
Air; "Thou, God Most High, Ad Thou Alone" (Nitocris)
Recitativo: "The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
Air: "Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!" (Daniel)
Chorus: "Behold, By Persia's Hero Made" (Babylonians)
Recitativo: " Well May They Laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul" (Gobrias)
Air: " Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief" (Gobrias)
Air: " Dry Those Unvailing Tears" (Gobrias)
Recitativo: " Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem" (Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
Recitativo: "Now, Tell Me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
Air: " Bethold The Monsterous Human Beast" (Gobrias)
Recitativo: "Can You Then Think It Strange" (Cyrus)
Air: "Great God! Who Yet But Darkly Known" (Cyrus)
Recitativo: "My Friends, Be Confident" (Cyrus)
Chorus: "All Empires Upon God Depend"
Air: "Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!" (Daniel)
Accompagato: "Rejoice, My Countrymen" (Daniel) Air: "Thus Saith The Lord To Cyrus (Daniel)
Chorus: "Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!"
Air: "Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!" (Belshazzar)
Recitiativo: "For You, My Friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
Air: "The Leafy Honours Of The Field" (Nitocris)
Recustom, I May Say, The Law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
Chorus: "Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command" (Jews)
Recitativo: "They Tell You The True" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
Duet: "Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
Chorus: "By Slow Degrees The Warth Of God" (Jews)
Chorus: "See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!"
Recitativo: "You See, My Friends, A Path" (Cyrus)
Air: "Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near" (Cyrus)
Chorus: "To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!" (Persians)
Chorus: "Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire"
Air: "Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess" (Belshazzar)
Accompagnato: "Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
Recitativo: "Call All My Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
A Sinfony (Allegro Postillons)
Recitativo: "Yes Sages! Welcome Always To You King" (Belshazzar) "Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes" (Wise Men)
Chorus: "Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!"
Recitativo: "Oh King, Live For Ever!" (Nicotris, Belshazzar)
Air: "No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be" (Daniel)
Accompagnato: "Yet, To Obey His Dread Command" (Daniel)
Recitativo: "Oh Sentence Too Severe!" (Nitocris) Air: Regard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears" (Nitocris)
Air: Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!" (Cyrus)
Recitativo: "You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace" (Cyrus)
Chorus: "Oh Glorious Prince!"
Air: "Alternate Hopes And Fears" (Nitocris)
Recitativo: "Fain Would I Hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)
Air: "Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?" (Daniel)
Recitativo: "My Hopes Revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
Chorus: "Bel Boweth Down!" (Jews)
Air: "I Thank Thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
A Martial Symphony
Air: " To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks" (Gobrias)
Recitativo: "Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias" (Cyrus) Air: "Destructive War, Thy Limits Know" (Cyrus)
Duet: "Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
Recitativo: "Say, Venerable Porphet" (Cyrus, Daniel
Soli & Chorus: "Tell It Out Among The Heathen"
Accompagnato: "Yes, I Will Build The City" (Cyrus)
Soli & Chorus: "I Will Magnify Thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)

notes

â„— 1991 Deutsche Grammophon
© 2004 Deutsche Grammophon

Series: "Trio 3CDs"
Recording at Henry Wood Hall, July 1990
DDD Digital Recording

Include 28 page booklet with notes in English and German
Made in the EU

First issued in 1991 as 431 793-2 Archiv Produktion Recording: London, Henry Wood Hall, 7/1990

â„— 1991 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
© 2004 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg

Made in the E.U. Printed in the E.U.

Fat double jewel case, 28-page booklet with notes in English and German.

Please note that this repress of the 2004 reissue was released in 2005 or later, since manufacturer EDC, Germany started operations in 2005.

credits

Alto Vocals – Graeme Curry, Jacqueline Connell, Joyce Jarvis, Melanie Marshall (2), Nigel Short, Penelope Vickers, Robert Jones (3), Wilfried Swansbourough
Art Direction – Fred Münzmaier
Baritone Vocals [Soloist, Gobrias] – David Wilson-Johnson
Bass Vocals – Christopher Foster, Jeremy Birchall, John Milne (2), Julian Clarkson, Richard Wistreich, Simon Birchall, Simon Davies (3), Stephen Alder
Bass Vocals [Soloist, Messenger] – Richard Wistreich
Bassoon – Alberto Grazzi, Philip Turbett
Cello – Christopher Poffley, Helen Verney, Jane Coe, Timothy Kraemer
Choir – The English Concert Choir
Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
Countertenor Vocals [Soloist, Daniel] – James Bowman (2)
Directed By – Trevor Pinnock
Double Bass – Amanda McNamara, Peter Buckoke, Peter McCarthy, Timothy Lyons
Edited By – Uta Drosson
Engineer [Balance] – Hans-Peter Schweigmann
Executive-Producer – Charlotte Kriesch, Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Harpsichord – Iain Ledingham, Trevor Pinnock
Libretto By – Charles Jennens
Liner Notes – Anthony Hicks (2)
Liner Notes [French Translation] – Dennis Collins (2)
Liner Notes [German Translation] – Horst Leuchtmann
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Soloist Cyrus] – Catherine Robbin
Oboe – Catherine Latham, Lorraine Wood, Paul Goodwin (2), Sophia McKenna
Orchestra – The English Concert,
Organ – Bernard Robertson (2), Trevor Pinnock
Photography By [Cover] – Gilbert Gemballa
Producer, Recorded By – Dr. Gerd Ploebsch
Soprano Vocals – Alison Gough, Caroline Ashton, Jacqueline Connell, Julia Gooding, Kate Eckersley, Lucinda Houghton, Rachel Bevan, Rachel Platt, Sally Dunkley, Twig Hall
Soprano Vocals [Soloist, Nitocris] – Arleen Auger
Tenor Vocals – Angus Smith, Harvey Brough, Leigh Nixon, Neil Lunt, Neil MacKenzie, Nicolas Robertson, Tom Phillips (6), Vernon Kirk
Tenor Vocals [Soloist, Arioch] – Nicolas Robertson
Tenor Vocals [Soloist; Belshazzar] – Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Timpani – Robert Howes
Trumpet – Mark Bennett (2), Michael Harrison (4)
Viola – Lisa Cochrane, Rupert Bawden, Susan Bicknell, Trevor Jones (4)
Violin [1] – Alison Cracknell, Catherine Weiss, Frances Turner, Graham Cracknell, Miles Golding, Pauline Nobes, Susie Carpenter-Jacobs
Violin [1], Concertmaster – Simon Standage
Violin [2] – Fiona Huggett, James Ellis (3), Julia Bishop, Maurice Whitaker, Peter Hanson, Risa Browder, Roy Mowatt, Simon Jones (10), Walter Reiter
Alto Vocals – Graeme Curry, Jacqueline Connell, Joyce Jarvis, Melanie Marshall (2), Nigel Short, Penelope Vickers, Robert Jones (3), Wilfried Swansbourough
Art Direction – Fred Münzmaier
Baritone Vocals [Soloist, Gobrias] – David Wilson-Johnson
Bass Vocals – Christopher Foster, Jeremy Birchall, John Milne (2), Julian Clarkson, Richard Wistreich, Simon Birchall, Simon Davies (3), Stephen Alder
Bass Vocals [Soloist, Messenger] – Richard Wistreich
Bassoon – Alberto Grazzi, Philip Turbett
Cello – Christopher Poffley, Helen Verney, Jane Coe, Timothy Kraemer
Choir – The English Concert Choir
Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
Countertenor Vocals [Soloist, Daniel] – James Bowman (2)
Directed By – Trevor Pinnock
Double Bass – Amanda McNamara, Peter Buckoke, Peter McCarthy, Timothy Lyons
Edited By – Uta Drosson
Engineer [Balance] – Hans-Peter Schweigmann
Executive-Producer – Charlotte Kriesch, Dr. Andreas Holschneider
Harpsichord – Iain Ledingham, Trevor Pinnock
Libretto By – Charles Jennens
Liner Notes – Anthony Hicks (2)
Liner Notes [French Translation] – Dennis Collins (2)
Liner Notes [German Translation] – Horst Leuchtmann
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Soloist, Cyrus] – Catherine Robbin
Oboe – Catherine Latham, Lorraine Wood, Paul Goodwin (2), Sophia McKenna
Orchestra – The English Concert,
Organ – Bernard Robertson (2), Trevor Pinnock
Photography By [Cover] – Gilbert Gemballa
Producer, Recorded By – Dr. Gerd Ploebsch
Soprano Vocals – Alison Gough, Caroline Ashton, Jacqueline Connell, Julia Gooding, Kate Eckersley, Lucinda Houghton, Rachel Bevan, Rachel Platt, Sally Dunkley, Twig Hall
Soprano Vocals [Soloist, Nitocris] – Arleen Auger
Tenor Vocals – Angus Smith, Harvey Brough, Leigh Nixon, Neil Lunt, Neil MacKenzie, Nicolas Robertson, Tom Phillips (6), Vernon Kirk
Tenor Vocals [Soloist, Arioch] – Nicolas Robertson
Tenor Vocals [Soloist, Belshazzar] – Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Timpani – Robert Howes
Trumpet – Mark Bennett (2), Michael Harrison (4)
Viola – Lisa Cochrane, Rupert Bawden, Susan Bicknell, Trevor Jones (4)
Violin [1] – Alison Cracknell, Catherine Weiss, Frances Turner, Graham Cracknell, Miles Golding, Pauline Nobes, Susie Carpenter-Jacobs
Violin [1], Concertmaster – Simon Standage
Violin [2] – Fiona Huggett, James Ellis (3), Julia Bishop, Maurice Whitaker, Peter Hanson, Risa Browder, Roy Mowatt, Simon Jones (10), Walter Reiter

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Copyright (c) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Recorded At – Henry Wood Hall, London
Mastered At – Emil Berliner Studios
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Copyright (c) – Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Recorded At – Henry Wood Hall, London
Mastered At – Emil Berliner Studios
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51476053
Made By – EDC, Germany – 51475355
Made By – EDC, Germany

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