Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720

Dunedin Consort & John Butt

2012-05-14 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: I. Andante
  1:58
• 2
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: II. Larghetto
  2:36
• 3
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: III. Allegro
  2:27
• 4
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: I. Recitative "'Tis Greater Far to Spare, Than to Destroy"
  0:42
• 5
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: II. Air "Pluck Root and Branch from out the Land"
  1:59
• 6
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: III. Recitative "Our Souls with Ardour Glow"
  0:07
• 7
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: IV. Chorus "Shall We the God of Israel's Fear?"
  1:51
• 8
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: I. Recitative "Now Persecution Shall Lay by Her Iron Rod"
  0:16
• 9
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: II. Air "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains"
  4:21
• 10
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: III. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"
  1:24
• 11
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: IV. Recitative "O God, Who from the Suckling's Mouth"
  0:16
• 12
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: V. Air "Praise the Lord with Cheerful Noise"
  5:38
• 13
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: VI. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"
  1:24
• 14
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: I. Recitative "How Have Our Sins Provok'd the Lord"
  1:05
• 15
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: II. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"
  1:52
• 16
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: III. Air "O Jordan, Jordan, Sacred Tide"
  7:42
• 17
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: IV. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"
  2:09
• 18
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: I. Recitative "Why Sits That Sorrow on thy Brow?"
  1:03
• 19
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: II. Air "Dread Not, Righteous Queen, the Danger"
  4:25
• 20
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: III. Recitative "I Go Before the King to Stand"
  0:13
• 21
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: IV. Air "Tears Assist Me, Pity Moving"
  2:50
• 22
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: V. Chorus "Save Us, O Lord"
  1:27
• 23
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: I. Recitative "Who Dares Intrude into Our Presence Without Our Leave?"
  1:10
• 24
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: II. Duet "Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?"
  2:46
• 25
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: III. Air "O Beauteous Queen, Unclose Those Eyes!"
  7:18
• 26
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: IV. Recitative "If I Find Favour in thy Sight"
  0:20
• 27
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: V. Air "How Can I Stay, When Love Invites?"
  3:09
• 28
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: VI. Recitative "With Inward Joy His Visage Glows"
  0:16
• 29
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: VII. Chorus "Virtue, Truth and Innocence"
  2:43
• 1
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 1: I. Air "Jehovah Crown'd with Glory Bright"
  1:58
• 2
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 1: II. Chorus "He Comes, He Comes to End Our Woes"
  4:17
• 3
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: I. Recitative "Now, O Queen, They Suit Declare"
  1:38
• 4
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: II. Accompagnato "Turn Not, O Queen, thy Face Away"
  2:36
• 5
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: III. Air "Flatt'ring Tongue, No More I Hear Thee!"
  4:52
• 6
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: IV. Recitative "Guards, Seize the Traitor, Bear Him Hence!"
  0:40
• 7
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: V. Air "How Art Thou Fall'n from thy Height!"
  6:10
• 8
  Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: VI. Chorus "The Lord Our Enemy Has Slain"
  11:57