Handel: Tobit

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Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith) (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Stephan MacLeod, bass
Knut Schoch, tenor
J. Christopher Smith,
Linda Perillo, soprano
Alison Browner, alto
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Maya Boog, soprano
Recording date: 3 June 2001


1.   Part I: Ouverture - 5:04
2.   Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite) - 0:15
3.   Part I Scene 1: Hear us, O Baal (Chorus) - 1:53
4.   Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd is human joy (Tobit) - 0:51
5.   Part I Scene 2: O Lord, whom we adore (Tobit) - Hear from thy mercies seat (Chorus) - 4:59
6.   Part I Scene 3: Recitative: The Lord hath heard my pray'r (Tobias) - 0:27
7.   Part I Scene 3: Air: Will God, whose mercies ever flow (Tobias) - 2:18
8.   Part I Scene 3: Recitative: But Say, my Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit) - 0:43
9.   Part I Scene 3: Duet: To Steal a Grave (Anna, Tobit) - 4:42
10.   Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias) - 0:26
11.   Part I Scene 3: Air: Boistrous Winds and Billows rolling (Tobias) - 7:40
12.   Part I Scene 3: Tyrants may a while presume (Chorus) - 2:51
13.   Part I Scene 4: Sinfonia - 0:49
14.   Part I Scene 4: Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah) - 1:18
15.   Part I Scene 4: Air: Paid be my Adoration (Sarah) - 2:36
16.   Part I Scene 4: Recitative: Be comforted, my Daughter (Raguel) - 0:38
17.   Part I Scene 4: Air: The Lord Sends his Thunders (Raguel) - 3:11
18.   Part I Scene 4: All Pow'r in Heav'n above or Earth beneath (Chorus) - 2:51
19.   Part II Scene 1: Sinfonia - 0:44
20.   Part II Scene 1: Accompagnato: Alas! To what Variety of Ills (Tobit) - 1:55
21.   Part II Scene 1: Air: In great Jehovah (Tobit) - 1:25
22.   Part II Scene 2: Recitative: Happy in thee, my Son (Tobit) - 0:39
23.   Part II Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Azarias) - 8:57
24.   Part II Scene 2: Impartial heav'n (Chorus) - 3:04
25.   Part II Scene 3: Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt and Misery (A Ninevite) - 0:45
26.   Part II Scene 3: O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus) - 1:51
27.   Part II Scene 3: Ritornello - 0:32
28.   Part II Scene 4: Recitative: Pain'd as I am (Tobit, Anna) - 0:51
29.   Part II Scene 4: Air: Thy pleasing Face (Anna) - 7:42
30.   Part II Scene 4: Recitative: O thou bright sun! (Anna) - 0:33
31.   Part II Scene 4: Air: With darkness Deep, as is my woe (Anna) - 2:38
32.   Part II Scene 5: Sinfonia - 0:21
33.   Part II Scene 5: Recitative: What caution is too great (Tobit, Azarias) - 0:52

Tobit (arr. J.C. Smith) (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Stephan MacLeod, bass
Knut Schoch, tenor
J. Christopher Smith,
Linda Perillo, soprano
Alison Browner, alto
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Maya Boog, soprano
Recording date: 3 June 2001


1.   Part II Scene 5: Air: Thou, God most high (Azarias) - 5:00
2.   Part II Scene 5: Duet: Cease thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias) - 5:43
3.   Part II Scene 5: The Clouded Scene begins to clear (Chorus) - 3:49
4.   Part II Scene 6: Sinfonia - 3:09
5.   Part II Scene 6: Recitative: How happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah) - 0:56
6.   Part II Scene 6: Air: To nobler Joys aspiring (Sarah) - 4:54
7.   Part II Scene 7: Recitative: O Azarias, I must freely own (Tobias, Azarias) - 0:40
8.   Part II Scene 8: Recitative: The gratefull Tribute of our thanks (Raguel) - 0:20
9.   Part II Scene 8: Air: Let Songs of varied measure (Raguel) - 4:26
10.   Part II Scene 8: Now Love, that everlasting Joy (Chorus) - 2:28
11.   Part II Scene 8: Happy, happy shall they be (Chorus) - 3:14
12.   Part III Scene 1: Sinfonia - 0:44
13.   Part III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Still am I persecuted (Tobit) - 0:37
14.   Part III Scene 1: Air: Cease your Pride, deluded mortals (Tobit) - 2:20
15.   Part III Scene 1: Tremble, Guilt, for Thou Shalt find (Chorus) - 2:42
16.   Part III Scene 2: Sinfonia - 1:40
17.   Part III Scene 2: Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit) - 0:18
18.   Part III Scene 2: Accompagnato: Henceforth through all the changing Scenes of Life (Anna) - 0:32
19.   Part III Scene 2: Air: My Son, how happy in this thy Sweet Return (Anna) - 4:03
20.   Part III Scene 2: Let none Despair (Chorus) - 3:29
21.   Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato and Recitative: Blest be the God of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel) - 1:25
22.   Part III Scene 3: Air: May true Joy (Raguel) - 4:06
23.   Part III Scene 3: Terzetto: More chearfull appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah) - 5:03
24.   Part III Scene 3: Air: Watchful angels (Sarah) - 1:32
25.   Part III Scene 3: Recitative: O King of Kings (Sarah) - 0:29
26.   Part III Scene 3: Air: Allelujah (Sarah) - 3:21
27.   Part III Scene 3: Swift our numbers (Chorus) - 2:39
28.   Part III Scene 3: Recitative: 'Tis well (Raphael) - 0:21
29.   Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato: O Nineveh! (Raphael) - 1:25
30.   Part III Scene 3: Air: In Jehovah's awful sight (Raphael) - 2:02
31.   Part III Scene 3: Symphony - 2:38
32.   Part III Scene 3: Recitative: Saw ye the radiant Streams of Light (Tobit) - 0:39
33.   Part III Scene 3: Ye servants of th'eternal King (Soloists, Chorus) - 3:17

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