Handel: Alexander Balus

The King's Consort & Robert King

Tracks

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Ouverture: [Grave] – Allegro

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 1. Chorus: Flush'd with Conquest, Fir'd by Mithra (Asiates)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 2. Recitative: Thus Far, Ye Glorious Partners of the War (Alexander/Jonathan)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 3. Air: Great Author of This Harmony (Jonathan)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 4. Flourish of Trumpets

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 5. Recitative: And Thus Let Happy Egypt's King (Ptolomee)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 6. Air: Thrice Happy the Monarch, Whom Nations Content (Ptolomee)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 7. Recitative: Congratulation to Our Father's Friend (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 8. Air: Hark! Hark! He Strikes the Golden Lyre (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 9. Recitative: Be It My Chief Ambition There To Rise (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 10. Air: Fair Virtue Shall Charm Me (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 1 No. 11. Chorus: Ye Happy Nations Round (Asiates)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 2 No. 1. Recitative: My Jonathan (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 2 No. 2. Air: Oh, What Resistless Charms Are Giv'n (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 1. Air: Subtle Love, with Fancy Viewing (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 2. Recitative: Aspasia, I Know Not What To Call (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 3. Air: How Happy Should We Mortals Prove (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 4. Recitative: Check Not the Pleasing Accents of Thy Tongue (Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 5. Air: So Shall the Sweet Attractive Smile (Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 6. Recitative: How Blissful State! (Cleopatra/Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 3 No. 7. Duet: O What Pleasures, Past Expressing (Cleopatra/Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 4 No. 1. Recitative: Why Hangs This Heavy Gloom upon the Brow (Jonathan/Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 4 No. 2. Air: Heroes May Boast Their Mighty Deed (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 5 No. 1. Recitative: Ye Sons of Judah, with High Festival (Jonathan)

Alexander Balus: Act 1 Scene 5 No. 2. Air with Chorus: Great God, from Whom All Blessings Spring (Jonathan/Israelites)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 1. Air: Kind Hope, Thou Universal Friend (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 2. Recitative: Long, Long and Happy Live the King! (Jonathan/Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 3. Air: O Mithra, with Thy Brightest Beams (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 4. Recitative: Stay, My Dread Sovereign (Sycophant Courtier/Alexander/Jonathan)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 5. Air: Mighty Love Now Calls To Arm (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 6. Air: Hateful Man! Thy Sland'rous Tongue (Jonathan)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 1 No. 7. Chorus: O Calumny, on Virtue Waiting (Israelites)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 1. Recitative: Ah! Whence These Dire Forebodings of the Mind? (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 2. Air: Tossed from Thought to Thought I Rove (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 3. Recitative: Give to the Winds, Fair Princess, These Vain Doubts (Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 2 No. 4. Air: Love, Glory, Ambition, Whate'er Can Inspire (Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 3 No. 1. Recitative: Thus Far My Wishes Thrive (Ptolomee)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 3 No. 2. Air: Virtue, Thou Ideal Name (Ptolomee)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 1. Accompagnato: Ye Happy People, with Loud Accents Speak (Jonathan)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 2. Soli with Chorus: Triumph Hymen in the Pair

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 3. Recitative: Glad Time, at Length, Hath Reach'd the Happy Point (Alexander/Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 4. Duet: Hail Wedded Love, Mysterious Law! (Alexander/Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 2 Scene 4 No. 5. Chorus: Hymen, Fair Urania's Son (Asiates)

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Introduction: Sinfonia

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 1 No. 1. Recitative: 'Tis True, Instinctive Nature Seldom Points (Cleopatra)

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 1 No. 2. Air with Chorus: Here Amid the Shady Woods (Cleopatra/Ruffians)

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 1. Recitative: Ah! Was It Not My Cleopatra's Voice? (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 2. Air: Pow'rful Guardians of All Nature (Alexander)

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 3. Recitative: Treach'ry, O King, Unheard of Treachery (Jonathan/Alexander/Aspasia)

Alexander Balus: Act 3 Scene 2 No. 4. Air: Fury, with Red Sparkling Eyes (Alexander)