GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL / J. CHRISTOPHER SMITH
CD One
1.
Part I: Ouverture
5:04
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
2.
Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite)
0:15
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
3.
Part I Scene 1: Hear us, O Baal (Chorus)
1:53
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
4.
Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd is human joy (Tobit)
0:51
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
5.
Part I Scene 2: O Lord, whom we adore (Tobit) - Hear from thy mercies seat (Chorus)
4:59
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
6.
Part I Scene 3: Recitative: The Lord hath heard my pray'r (Tobias)
0:27
Solo: Alison Browner alto
7.
Part I Scene 3: Air: Will God, whose mercies ever flow (Tobias)
2:18
Solo: Alison Browner alto
8.
Part I Scene 3: Recitative: But Say, my Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit)
0:43
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
9.
Part I Scene 3: Duet: To Steal a Grave (Anna, Tobit)
4:42
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
10.
Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias)
0:26
Solo: Alison Browner alto
11.
Part I Scene 3: Air: Boistrous Winds and Billows rolling (Tobias)
7:40
Solo: Alison Browner alto
12.
Part I Scene 3: Tyrants may a while presume (Chorus)
2:51
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
13.
Part I Scene 4: Sinfonia
0:49
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
14.
Part I Scene 4: Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah)
1:18
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
15.
Part I Scene 4: Air: Paid be my Adoration (Sarah)
2:36
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
16.
Part I Scene 4: Recitative: Be comforted, my Daughter (Raguel)
0:38
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
17.
Part I Scene 4: Air: The Lord Sends his Thunders (Raguel)
3:11
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
18.
Part I Scene 4: All Pow'r in Heav'n above or Earth beneath (Chorus)
2:51
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
19.
Part II Scene 1: Sinfonia
0:44
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
20.
Part II Scene 1: Accompagnato: Alas! To what Variety of Ills (Tobit)
1:55
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
21.
Part II Scene 1: Air: In great Jehovah (Tobit)
1:25
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
22.
Part II Scene 2: Recitative: Happy in thee, my Son (Tobit)
0:39
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
23.
Part II Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Azarias)
8:57
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
24.
Part II Scene 2: Impartial heav'n (Chorus)
3:04
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
25.
Part II Scene 3: Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt and Misery (A Ninevite)
0:45
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
26.
Part II Scene 3: O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus)
1:51
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
27.
Part II Scene 3: Ritornello
0:32
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
28.
Part II Scene 4: Recitative: Pain'd as I am (Tobit, Anna)
0:51
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
29.
Part II Scene 4: Air: Thy pleasing Face (Anna)
7:42
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
30.
Part II Scene 4: Recitative: O thou bright sun! (Anna)
0:33
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
31.
Part II Scene 4: Air: With darkness Deep, as is my woe (Anna)
2:38
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
32.
Part II Scene 5: Sinfonia
0:21
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
33.
Part II Scene 5: Recitative: What caution is too great (Tobit, Azarias)
0:52
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
CD Two
1.
Part II Scene 5: Air: Thou, God most high (Azarias)
5:00
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
2.
Part II Scene 5: Duet: Cease thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias)
5:43
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
3.
Part II Scene 5: The Clouded Scene begins to clear (Chorus)
3:49
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
4.
Part II Scene 6: Sinfonia
3:09
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
5.
Part II Scene 6: Recitative: How happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah)
0:56
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
6.
Part II Scene 6: Air: To nobler Joys aspiring (Sarah)
4:54
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
7.
Part II Scene 7: Recitative: O Azarias, I must freely own (Tobias, Azarias)
0:40
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
8.
Part II Scene 8: Recitative: The gratefull Tribute of our thanks (Raguel)
0:20
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
9.
Part II Scene 8: Air: Let Songs of varied measure (Raguel)
4:26
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
10.
Part II Scene 8: Now Love, that everlasting Joy (Chorus)
2:28
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
11.
Part II Scene 8: Happy, happy shall they be (Chorus)
3:14
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
12.
Part III Scene 1: Sinfonia
0:44
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
13.
Part III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Still am I persecuted (Tobit)
0:37
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
14.
Part III Scene 1: Air: Cease your Pride, deluded mortals (Tobit)
2:20
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
15.
Part III Scene 1: Tremble, Guilt, for Thou Shalt find (Chorus)
2:42
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
16.
Part III Scene 2: Sinfonia
1:40
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
17.
Part III Scene 2: Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit)
0:18
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
18.
Part III Scene 2: Accompagnato: Henceforth through all the changing Scenes of Life (Anna)
0:32
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
19.
Part III Scene 2: Air: My Son, how happy in this thy Sweet Return (Anna)
4:03
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
20.
Part III Scene 2: Let none Despair (Chorus)
3:29
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
21.
Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato and Recitative: Blest be the God of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel)
1:25
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
22.
Part III Scene 3: Air: May true Joy (Raguel)
4:06
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
23.
Part III Scene 3: Terzetto: More chearfull appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah)
5:03
Solo: Alison Browner alto
24.
Part III Scene 3: Air: Watchful angels (Sarah)
1:32
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
25.
Part III Scene 3: Recitative: O King of Kings (Sarah)
0:29
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
26.
Part III Scene 3: Air: Allelujah (Sarah)
3:21
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
27.
Part III Scene 3: Swift our numbers (Chorus)
2:39
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
28.
Part III Scene 3: Recitative: 'Tis well (Raphael)
0:21
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
29.
Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato: O Nineveh! (Raphael)
1:25
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
30.
Part III Scene 3: Air: In Jehovah's awful sight (Raphael)
2:02
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
31.
Part III Scene 3: Symphony
2:38
Solo: Maya Boog soprano
32.
Part III Scene 3: Recitative: Saw ye the radiant Streams of Light (Tobit)
0:39
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
33.
Part III Scene 3: Ye servants of th'eternal King (Soloists, Chorus)
3:17
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
Solo: Linda Perillo soprano
Solo: Barbara Hannigan soprano
Solo: Alison Browner alto
Solo: Knut Schoch tenor
Solo: Stephan MacLeod bass
Orchestra: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Choral: Junge Kantorei
Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini