Handel: Judas Maccabaeus – Laurence Cummings
Judas Maccabaeus
Overture
Chorus: Mourn, ye afflicted children
Recitative: Well may your sorrows
Duet: From this dread scene
Chorus: For Sion lamentation make
Recitative: Not vain is all this storm of grief
Air: Pious orgies
Chorus: Oh Father, whose Almighty power
Recitative: I feel, I feel the Deity within
Air: Arm, arm, ye brave – Chorus: We come, we come, in bright array
Recitative: ’tis well, my friends
Air: Call forth thy powers
Recitative: To Heaven’s Almighty King we kneel
Air: Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure
Air: Come, ever-smiling liberty
Recitative: Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire – Air: ’tis liberty
Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty
Chorus: Lead on, lead on
Recitative: So willed my father, now at rest – Accompanied recitative: We come! O see thy sonns prepare
Chorus: Disdainful of danger
Recitative: Ambition! If ever honour was thine aim – Air: No unhallowed desire
Chorus: Hear us, oh Lord
Chorus: Fallen is the foe
Recitative: Victorious hero
Air: So rapid thy course is
Recitative: Oh let eternal honours crown his name
Air: From mighty kings he took the spoil
Duet: Hail, hail, Judea, happy land – Chorus: Hail, hail, Judea, happy land
Recitative: Thanks to my brethren
Air: How vain is man, who boasts in fight
Recitative: Oh Judas! oh my brethren
Air: Ah! wretched Israel – Chorus: Ah! wretched Israel
Recitative: Be comforted
Air: The Lord worketh wonders
Recitative: My arms! against this Gorgias will I go
Air: Sound an alarm – Chorus: We hear
Recitative: Enough! to Heaven we leave the rest
Air: With pious hearts
Recitative: Ye worshippers of God
Recitative: No more in Sion
Duet: Oh! never, never bow we down – Chorus: We never, never will bow down
Air: Father of Heaven
Accompanied recitative: See, see yon flames
Recitative: Oh grant it, Heaven
Air: So shall the lute and harp awake
Recitative: From Capharsalama
Recitative: Yet more
March
Chorus: Sing unto God
Recitative: Sweet flow the strains
Air: With honour let desert be crowned
Recitative: Peace to my countrymen
Chorus: To our great God
Recitative: Again to earth let gratitude descend
Duet: Oh lovely peace
Air: Rejoice, oh Judah
Chorus: Hallelujah! Amen
Kenneth Tarver, Deanna Breiwick, Sophie Harmsen, Joao Fernandes, Owen Willetts, NDR Chor, Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings
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