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Handel Edition Volume 7 - Saul, Alexander's feast, Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Utrecht Te Deum, Apollo e Dafne, Giulio Cesare

Handel Edition

2009/08/25

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Handel: Saul, HWV 53: Symphony (Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro - Menuet. Andante larghetto)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:02
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 1: No. 1, Chorus, "How excellent thy name, oh Lord" (Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:51
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "An infant raised by thy command" (Soprano)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:36
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Along the monster atheist strode" (Alto, Tenor, Bass)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:02
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 1: No. 4, Chorus, "The youth inspired by Thee, o Lord" - No. 5, Chorus, "How excellent Thy name, o Lord"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:17
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 6, Recitative, "He comes!" - No. 7, Air, "O godlike youth!" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:04
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 8, Recitative, "Behold, o King, the brave, victorious youth" (Abner, Saul, David) - No. 9, Air, "O King, your favours with delight I take" (David)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:47
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Oh early piety!" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:27
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "What abject thoughts" (Merab)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:27
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 12, Recitative, "Yet think, on whom this honour" (Merab) - No. 13, Air, "Birth and fortune I despise!" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5:19
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 16, Recitative, "Thou, Merab, first in birth" (Saul, Merab) - No. 17, Air, "My soul rejects the thoughts with scorn" (Merab)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:49
12

Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 18, Air, "See, with what a scornful air" - No. 19, Air, "Ah! lovely youth!" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:04
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 2: No. 20, Symphony (Andante allegro)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:09
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Already see, the daughters of the land" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:15
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 3: No. 22, Chorus, "Welcome, mighty king!" (Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:34
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 3: No. 23, Recitative, "What do I hear?" (Saul) - No. 24, Chorus, "David his ten thousands slew" - No. 25, Recitative, "To him ten thousands!" (Saul) - No. 26, Air, "With rage I shall burst his praises to h

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:46
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 4: No. 27, Recitative, "Imprudent women!" (Jonathan, Michal) - No. 28, Air, "Fell rage and black despair possest" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:41
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Racked with infernal pains" (Abner)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:19
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "O Lord, whose mercies numberless" (David)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:20
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: " 'Tis all in vain" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:19
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 5: No. 35, Air, "A serpent, in my bosom warmed" - No. 36, Recitative, "Has he escaped my rage?" (Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:36
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1: "Capricious man, in humour lost" (Merab)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:15
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 6: No. 38, Recitative, "O filial piety!" - No. 29, Air, "No, cruel father, no" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:13
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 1 Scene 6: No. 41, Chorus, "Preserve him for the glory of thy name"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:29
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 1: No. 42, Chorus, "Envy! eldest born of hell!"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:14
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 2: No. 43, Recitative, "Ah, dearest friend" - No. 44, Air, "But sooner Jordan's stream" - No. 47, Recitative, "My father comes" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:23
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 3: No. 48, Recitative, "Hast thou obeyed my orders" (Saul, Jonathan) - No. 49, Air, "Sin not, o King" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:56
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "As great Jehovah lives" (Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:16
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "From cities stormed, and battles won" (Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:09
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "Appear, my friend" (Jonathan, Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:39
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "Your words, o King" (David)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:10
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "Yes, he shall wed my daughter" (Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:32
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "A father's will has authoriz'd my love" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:34
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "O fairest of ten thousand fair" (Michal, David)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:48
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 5: No. 57, Chorus, "Is there a man"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:34
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 5: No. 58a, Symphony (Largo - Allegro)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:58
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 6: No. 59, Recitative, "Thy father is as cruel" (David) - No. 60, Duet, "At persecution I can laugh" (David, Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:04
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 7: No. 61, Recitative, "Whom dost thou seek?" (Michal, Doeg) - No. 62, Air, "No, no, let the guilty tremble" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:33
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 8: No. 63, Recitative, "Mean as he was" - No. 64, Air, "Author of peace" (Merab)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:52
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 9: No. 65, Symphony (Allegro)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:16
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "The time at length is come" (Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:51
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2: "Where is the son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:13
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 2 Scene 10: No. 68, Chorus, "O fatal consequence of rage"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:27
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 1: No. 69, Recitative, "Wretch that I am!" - No. 70, Air, "Tis said, here lives a woman" (Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:40
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 2: No. 71, Recitative, "With me what would'st thou?" (Witch, Saul) - No. 72, Air, "Infernal spirits" (Witch)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:30
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 3: No. 73, Recitative, "Why hast thou forced me … O holy prophet!" (Samuel, Saul)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:16
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 3: No. 74, Symphony (Allegro)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:39
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 4: No. 75, Recitative, "Whence comst thou?" (David, Amalekite) - No. 76, Air, "Impious wretch, of race accurst" (David)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:26
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 4: No. 77b, March (Grave)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:07
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 5: No. 78, Chorus, "Mourn, Israel, mourn, thy beauty lost!"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:50
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 5: No. 79, Air, "O let it not in Gath be heard" (Jonathan) - No. 80, Air, "From this unhappy day" (Michal)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

6:00
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 5: No. 82, Chorus, "Eagles were not so swift as they"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:23
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 5: No. 83, Air, "In sweetest harmony they lived" (Merab) - No. 84, Solo and Chorus, "O fatal day!" (David, Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

9:37
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3: "Ye men of Judah, weep no more" (Abner)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:37
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Handel: Saul, HWV 53, Act 3 Scene 5: No. 86, Chorus, "Gird on thy sword" (Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5:43
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Overture (Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Adagio - Andante)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

6:33
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative, "T'was at the royal feast, for Persia won by Philip's warlike son" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:03
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 1, Air and Chorus, "Happy pair!" (Tenor, Soprano, Chorus)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5:27
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative, "Timotheus, plac'd on high" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:26
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 3, Recitative accompanied, "The song began from Jove" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:02
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 4, Chorus, "The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound"

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:09
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 5, Aria, "With ravish'd ears the monarch hears" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:30
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative, "The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:33
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 6, Air and Chorus, "Bacchus, ever fair and young … Bacchus' blessings are a treasure" (Bass, Chorus)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:23
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative, "Sooth'd with the sound" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:44
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 7, Recitative accompanied, "He choose a mournful Muse" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:15
67

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 8, Air, "He sung Darius, great and good" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:02
68

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 9, Recitative accompanied, "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:01
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 10, Chorus, "Behold Darius great and good"

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:47
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative, "The mighty master smiled to see" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:31
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 11, Arioso, "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:02
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 12, Air, "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:58
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 13, Chorus, "The many rend the skies with loud applause"

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:55
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 14a, Air, "The Prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Soprano)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

6:35
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 1: No. 14b, Chorus, "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (da capo)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:58
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Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 15, Recitative accompanied with Chorus, "Now strike the golden Lyre again! … Break his bonds of sleep asunder … Hark, hark!" (Tenor, Chorus)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:42
77

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 16, Air, "Revenge, Timotheus cries" (Bass)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

8:04
78

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 17, Recitative accompanied, "Give the vengeance due to the valiant crew" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:44
79

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 18, Air, "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Tenor)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:04
80

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 19, Air with Chorus, "Thais led the way … The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Soprano, Chorus)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5:21
81

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 20, Recitative accompanied with Chorus, "Thus, long ago, ere heaving Bellows … At last divine Cecilia came" (Tenor, Chorus)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

5:49
82

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Recitative, "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Tenor, Bass)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:19
83

Handel: Alexander's Feast or the Power of Musick, HWV 75, Pt. 2: No. 21, Chorus, "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:15
84

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: Overture (Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Menuet) - Recitative, "From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony" - No. 1, Recitative accompanied, "When Nature underneath a heap" (Tenor)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

8:44
85

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 2, Chorus, "From Harmony, from heavenly Harmony"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:51
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Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 3, Air, "What passion cannot Music raise and quell!" (Soprano)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

8:43
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Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 4, Solo and Chorus, "The trumpet's loud clangor excites us" (Tenor, Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:53
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Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 5, March

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:51
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Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 6, Air, "The soft complainning flute" (Soprano)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:38
90

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 7, Air, "Sharp Violins proclaim their jealous pangs" (Tenor)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:33
91

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 8, Air, "But oh! what art can teach" (Soprano)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

4:03
92

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 9, Air, "Orpheus could lead" (Soprano)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:48
93

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 10, Recitative accompanied, "But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r" (Soprano)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

0:36
94

Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76: No. 11, Chorus, "As from the power of sacred lays"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

7:02
95

Handel: Te Deum in D Major, HWV 278, "Utrecht Te Deum": No. 1, Chorus, (a) "We praise thee, o God"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:36
96

Handel: Te Deum in D Major, HWV 278, "Utrecht Te Deum": No. 1, Chorus, (b) "All the earth doth worship Thee"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:48
97

Handel: Te Deum in D Major, HWV 278, "Utrecht": II. "To Thee All Angels Cry Aloud"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:05
98

Handel: Te Deum in D Major, HWV 278, "Utrecht": III. "To Thee, Cherubim and Seraphim"

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

1:10
99

Handel: Te Deum in D Major, HWV 278, "Utrecht Te Deum": No. 4, Solo and Chorus, (a) "The glorious company" (Tenor 1, Bass, Soprano, Alto, Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

3:23
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Handel: Te Deum in D Major, HWV 278, "Utrecht Te Deum": No. 4, Solo and Chorus, (b) "Thou art the King of Glory" (Chorus)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

2:05

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