Handel, George Frederick
Solomon (Beecham) CD1
1955
oratorio

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Part I - Overture 4:18
2 Double Chorus - Your harps and cymbals sound 3:59
3 Recitative - Almighty Power, who rul'st the earth and skies 2:29
4 Double Chorus - With pious heart and holy tongue 4:41
5 Recitative - Imperial Solomon, thy prayers are heard 0:44
6 Air - Sacred raptures cheer my breast 5:06
7 Recitative - Blest be the Lord 0:37
8 Air - What though I trace each herb and flower 3:32
9 Air - Bless'd the day 5:33
10 Recitative - Thou fair inhabitant of Nile 0:53
11 Duet - Welcome as the dawn of day 4:10
12 Recitative - When thou art absent from my sight 0:18
13 Air - With thee the unsheltered moor I'd tread 3:15
14 Recitative - My blooming fair, come, come away 0:17
15 Chorus - May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours 4:00
16 Sinfonia 3:12
17 Recitative - From Arabia's spicy shores 0:31
18 Air - Ev'ry sight these eyes behold 4:52
19 Recitative - Sweep, sweep the string 0:21
20 Solo and Chorus - Music, spread thy voice around 4:15
21 Air and Chorus - Now a diff'rent measure try 2:04
22 Recitative and Chorus - Then, at once, from rage remove 3:49
23 Recitative - Next the tortured soul release 0:22
24 Chorus - Thus rolling surges rise 2:06
25 Recitative - Thy harmony's divine, great King! 1:42
26 Part II - Chorus - From the censer curling rise 9:08
27 Chorus - From the East unto the West 3:11
Total time 76:05