| # | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
|---|
| 1 | Belshazzar: Overture | Handel | | 2:40 |
| 2 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 1. 1. Accompagnato ed Arioso (Nitocris) "Vain fluctuating state of human empire!" | Handel | | 4:28 |
| 3 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 1. 2a. Aria (Nitocris) "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" | Handel | | 4:37 |
| 4 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 1. 2b. Recitative (Nitocris) "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" - Scene 2. 3a. Recitative (Nitocris, Daniel) "O much belov'd"- art direction:
- Martin Sauer
- engineer:
- Jean Chatauret
- soprano vocals [Nitocris]:
- Rosemary Joshua
- orchestra:
- Les Arts Florissants
- conductor:
- William Christie
- recorded at:
- Conservatoire Maurice Ravel de Levallois-Perret in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France (from 2012-12-19 until 2012-12-21)
- recording of:
- Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 1, Recitativo "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
- composer:
- George Frideric Handel (in 1744)
- librettist:
- Charles Jennens
- part of:
- Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act I
| Handel | | 1:15 |
| 5 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 2. 3b. Air (Daniel) "Lament not thus, O Queen, in vain!" | Handel | | 4:59 |
| 6 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 4. Chorus of Babylonians "Behold by Persia's hero made" | Handel | | 2:28 |
| 7 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 5a. Recitative (Gobrias) "Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe" - 5b. Accompagnato (Gobrias) "Oh memory" | Handel | | 1:27 |
| 8 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 6. Aria (Gobrias) "Opprest with never ceasing grief" | Handel | | 3:57 |
| 9 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 7. Aria (Cyrus) "Dry those unavailing tears" | Handel | | 1:54 |
| 10 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 8a. Recitative (Cyrus) "Be comforted: safe tho' the tyrant seem" - 8b. Accompagnato (Cyrus) "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" - 8bis. Recitative (Cyrus, Gobrias) "Now tell me Gobrias" | Handel | | 3:59 |
| 11 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 9. Aria (Gobrias) "Behold the monstrous human beast" - 10a. Recitative (Cyrus) "Can you then think it strange, if drown'd in wine" | Handel | | 3:47 |
| 12 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 10b. Aria (Cyrus) "Great God! who yet but darkly known" - 11a. Recitative (Cyrus) "My friends, be confident, and boldly enter" | Handel | | 4:09 |
| 13 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 3. 11b. Chorus "All empires upon God depend" | Handel | | 3:28 |
| 14 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 4. 12. Arioso (Daniel) "O sacred oracles of truth!" | Handel | | 4:54 |
| 15 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 4. 13a. Accompagnato (Daniel) "Rejoice, my countrymen: the time draws near" - 13b. Recitative (Daniel) "For long ago" - 14. Accompagnato (Daniel) "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus his anointed" | Handel | | 3:01 |
| 16 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 4. 15. Chorus "Sing, O ye Heav'ns, for the Lord hath done it" | Handel | | 4:16 |
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