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59 TRACKS:
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1-1)
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- Ouverture (Maestoso - Allegro)
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1-10)
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- Recitativo: " Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem" (Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates" (Cyrus)
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1-11)
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- Recitativo: "Now, Tell Me, Gobrias" (Cyrus, Gobrias)
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1-12)
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- Air: " Bethold The Monsterous Human Beast" (Gobrias)
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1-13)
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- Recitativo: "Can You Then Think It Strange" (Cyrus)
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1-14)
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- Air: "Great God! Who Yet But Darkly Known" (Cyrus)
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1-15)
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- Recitativo: "My Friends, Be Confident" (Cyrus)
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1-16)
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- Chorus: "All Empires Upon God Depend"
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1-17)
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- Air: "Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!" (Daniel)
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1-18)
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- Accompagato: "Rejoice, My Countrymen" (Daniel) Air: "Thus Saith The Lord To Cyrus (Daniel)
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1-19)
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- Chorus: "Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!"
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1-2)
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- Accompagnato Ed Arioso: "Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire" (Nitocris)
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1-3)
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- Air; "Thou, God Most High, Ad Thou Alone" (Nitocris)
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1-4)
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- Recitativo: "The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh" (Nitocris, Daniel)
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1-5)
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- Air: "Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!" (Daniel)
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1-6)
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- Chorus: "Behold, By Persia's Hero Made" (Babylonians)
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1-7)
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- Recitativo: " Well May They Laugh" (Gobrias, Cyrus) Accompagnato: "Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul" (Gobrias)
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1-8)
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- Air: " Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief" (Gobrias)
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1-9)
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- Air: " Dry Those Unvailing Tears" (Gobrias)
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2-1)
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- Air: "Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!" (Belshazzar)
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2-10)
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- Recitativo: "You See, My Friends, A Path" (Cyrus)
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2-11)
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- Air: "Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near" (Cyrus)
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2-12)
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- Chorus: "To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!" (Persians)
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2-13)
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- Chorus: "Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire"
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2-14)
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- Air: "Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess" (Belshazzar)
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2-15)
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- Accompagnato: "Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?" (Belshazzar, Chorus)
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2-16)
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- Recitativo: "Call All My Wise Men" (Belshazzar)
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2-2)
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- Recitiativo: "For You, My Friends" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
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2-3)
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- Air: "The Leafy Honours Of The Field" (Nitocris)
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2-4)
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- Recustom, I May Say, The Law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
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2-5)
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- Chorus: "Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command" (Jews)
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2-6)
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- Recitativo: "They Tell You The True" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
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2-7)
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- Duet: "Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!" (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
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2-8)
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- Chorus: "By Slow Degrees The Warth Of God" (Jews)
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2-9)
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- Chorus: "See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!"
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3-1)
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- A Sinfony (Allegro Postillons)
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3-10)
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- Chorus: "Oh Glorious Prince!"
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3-11)
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- Air: "Alternate Hopes And Fears" (Nitocris)
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3-12)
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- Recitativo: "Fain Would I Hope" (Nitocris, Daniel)
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3-13)
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- Air: "Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?" (Daniel)
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3-14)
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- Recitativo: "My Hopes Revive" (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
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3-15)
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- Chorus: "Bel Boweth Down!" (Jews)
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3-16)
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- Air: "I Thank Thee, Sesach" (Belshazzar)
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3-17)
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- A Martial Symphony
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3-18)
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- Air: " To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks" (Gobrias)
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3-19)
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- Recitativo: "Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias" (Cyrus) Air: "Destructive War, Thy Limits Know" (Cyrus)
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3-2)
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- Recitativo: "Yes Sages! Welcome Always To You King" (Belshazzar) "Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes" (Wise Men)
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3-20)
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- Duet: "Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow" (Nitocris, Cyrus)
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3-21)
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- Recitativo: "Say, Venerable Porphet" (Cyrus, Daniel
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3-22)
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- Soli & Chorus: "Tell It Out Among The Heathen"
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3-23)
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- Accompagnato: "Yes, I Will Build The City" (Cyrus)
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3-24)
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- Soli & Chorus: "I Will Magnify Thee" (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)
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3-3)
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- Chorus: "Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!"
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3-4)
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- Recitativo: "Oh King, Live For Ever!" (Nicotris, Belshazzar)
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3-5)
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- Air: "No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be" (Daniel)
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3-6)
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- Accompagnato: "Yet, To Obey His Dread Command" (Daniel)
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3-7)
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- Recitativo: "Oh Sentence Too Severe!" (Nitocris) Air: Regard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears" (Nitocris)
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3-8)
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- Air: Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!" (Cyrus)
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3-9)
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- Recitativo: "You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace" (Cyrus)
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