Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: II. Air "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains"

Dunedin Consort, John Butt & Thomas Hobbs

Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720

4 MINUTES AND 21 SECONDS • MAY 14 2012

Album Tracklist

1

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: I. Andante

01:58

2

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: II. Larghetto

02:35

3

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: III. Allegro

02:26

4

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: I. Recitative "'Tis Greater Far to Spare, Than to Destroy"

00:41

5

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: II. Air "Pluck Root and Branch from out the Land"

01:59

6

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: III. Recitative "Our Souls with Ardour Glow"

00:07

7

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: IV. Chorus "Shall We the God of Israel's Fear?"

01:51

8

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: I. Recitative "Now Persecution Shall Lay by Her Iron Rod"

00:16

9

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: II. Air "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains"

04:21

10

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: III. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"

01:24

11

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: IV. Recitative "O God, Who from the Suckling's Mouth"

00:16

12

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: V. Air "Praise the Lord with Cheerful Noise"

05:38

13

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: VI. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"

01:24

14

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: I. Recitative "How Have Our Sins Provok'd the Lord"

01:05

15

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: II. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"

01:52

16

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: III. Air "O Jordan, Jordan, Sacred Tide"

07:42

17

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: IV. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"

02:09

18

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: I. Recitative "Why Sits That Sorrow on thy Brow?"

01:02

19

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: II. Air "Dread Not, Righteous Queen, the Danger"

04:25

20

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: III. Recitative "I Go Before the King to Stand"

00:13

21

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: IV. Air "Tears Assist Me, Pity Moving"

02:50

22

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: V. Chorus "Save Us, O Lord"

01:27

23

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: I. Recitative "Who Dares Intrude into Our Presence Without Our Leave?"

01:09

24

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: II. Duet "Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?"

02:46

25

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: III. Air "O Beauteous Queen, Unclose Those Eyes!"

07:18

26

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: IV. Recitative "If I Find Favour in thy Sight"

00:19

27

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: V. Air "How Can I Stay, When Love Invites?"

03:09

28

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: VI. Recitative "With Inward Joy His Visage Glows"

00:15

29

Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: VII. Chorus "Virtue, Truth and Innocence"

02:42

30

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 1: I. Air "Jehovah Crown'd with Glory Bright"

01:58

31

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 1: II. Chorus "He Comes, He Comes to End Our Woes"

04:17

32

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: I. Recitative "Now, O Queen, They Suit Declare"

01:38

33

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: II. Accompagnato "Turn Not, O Queen, thy Face Away"

02:36

34

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: III. Air "Flatt'ring Tongue, No More I Hear Thee!"

04:52

35

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: IV. Recitative "Guards, Seize the Traitor, Bear Him Hence!"

00:40

36

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: V. Air "How Art Thou Fall'n from thy Height!"

06:10

37

Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: VI. Chorus "The Lord Our Enemy Has Slain"

11:56

38

Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720

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Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: II. Air "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains"

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