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Act I: Overture |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 2 |
Act I Scene 1: Your harps and cymbals sound (Chorus of Priests) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 3 |
Act I Scene 1: Air: Praise ye the Lord (Levite) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 4 |
Act I Scene 1: With pious hearts (Chorus of Priests) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 5 |
Act I Scene 1: Accompagnato: Almighty pow’r! (Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 6 |
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Imperial Solomon (Zadok) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 7 |
Act I Scene 1: Air: Sacred raptures (Zadok) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 8 |
Act I Scene 1: Throughout the land Jehovah’s praise (Chorus of Israelites) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 9 |
Act I Scene 1: Recitative: Bless’d be the Lord – Air: What tho’ I trace (Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 10 |
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: And see my Queen (Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 11 |
Act I Scene 2: Air: Bless’d the day (Queen) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 12 |
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: Thou fair inhabitant of Nile – Duet: Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon, Queen) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 13 |
Act I Scene 2: Recitative: When thou art absent from my sight – Air: With thee th’unshelter’d moor I tread (Queen) – Recitative: Search round the world (Zadok) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 14 |
Act I Scene 2: May no rash intruder (Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 15 |
Act II Scene 1: From the censer curling rise (Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 16 |
Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Prais’d be the Lord – Air: When the sun o’er yonder hills (Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 17 |
Act II Scene 2: Recitative: My sovereign liege, two women stand (Attendant, Solomon, First Harlots) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 18 |
Act II Scene 2: Air and Trio: Words are weak to paint my Fears (First Harlot, Second Harlot, Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 19 |
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: What says the other (Solomon, Second Harlot) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 20 |
Act II Scene 3: Air: Thy sentence, great king (Second Harlot) – Recitative: Withhold the executing hand (First Harlot) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 21 |
Act II Scene 3: Air: Can I see my infant gor’d (First Harlot) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
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Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato: Israel, attend (Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 23 |
Act II Scene 3: Duet: Thrice bless’d be the king (First Harlot, Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 24 |
Act II Scene 3: From the east unto the west (Chorus of Israelites) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 25 |
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: From morn to eve – Air: See the tall Palm (Zadok) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 26 |
Act II Scene 3: Recitative: No more shall armed bands – Air: Beneath the vine (First Harlot) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 27 |
Act II Scene 3: Swell the full chorus (Chorus of Priests) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 28 |
Act III: Sinfonia, “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 29 |
Act III: Recitative: From Arabia’s spicy shores (Queen of Sheba, Solomon) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 30 |
Act III: Air: Ev’ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 31 |
Act III: Recitative: Sweep the string (Solomon) – Air and Chorus: Music, spread thy voice around (Solomon, Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 32 |
Act III: Air and Chorus: Now a diff’rent measure try (Solomon, Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
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Act III: Recitative: Then at once – Draw the tear from hopeless love (Solomon, Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 34 |
Act III: Recitative: Next the tortur’d soul release – Air and Chorus: Thus rolling surges rise (Solomon, Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 35 |
Act III: Recitative: Thy Harmony’s divine (Queen of Sheba) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
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Act III: Air: Pious king, and virtuous queen (Levite) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 37 |
Act III: Recitative: Thrice happy king – Air: Golden columns, fair and bright (Zadok) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 38 |
Act III: Praise the Lord (Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 39 |
Act III: Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell – Air: Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 40 |
Act III: Recitative: Adieu, fair queen (Solomon) – Duet: Ev’ry joy, that wisdom knows (Solomon, Queen of Sheba) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
| 41 |
Act III: The name of the wicked (Chorus) |
Georg Friedrich Händel |
