Handel Collection - John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333: 1. Pomposo

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333: 2. Allegro

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333: 3. A tempo giusto

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 2, HWV 333: 4. Largo

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334: 1. Ouverture

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334: 2. Allegro - Allegro ma non troppo

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334: 3. Adagio

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334: 4. Andante larghetto

Handel: Concerto a due cori No. 3, HWV 334: 5. Allegro

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: I. Overture. Grave – Allegro

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: II. Adagio e staccato

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IIIa. [Hornpipe. Allegro]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IIIb. Andante

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IIIc. [Allegro da capo]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IV. [Passepied. A tempo di menuetto]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: V. Air

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VI. [Minuet] for Horns

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VII. Bourrée – VIII. Hornpipe

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IX. [Gavotte. Allegretto]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: I. Allegro

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. [Alla Hornpipe]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: III. Coro [Trumpet Minuet]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: IV. Lentement

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: V. Air [Bourrée]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: I. [Sarabande]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: II. Aria [Rigaudon I-II]

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: III. Minuet – Trio

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: IV. [Gigue II-I "Country Dances"]

Handel: Water Music Suite Variants, HWV 331: I. Allegro (F Major Version of HWV 349/I)

Handel: Water Music Suite Variants, HWV 331: II. Alla Hornpipe (F Major Version of HWV 349/2)

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: II. Bourrée

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: IV. La Réjouissance

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: V. Menuet I-II

Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Gloria in excelsis Deo

Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Et in terra pax

Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Laudamus te...gratius agimus

Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Domine Deus

Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Qui tollis peccata mundi

Handel: Gloria in Excelsis Deo: Quoniam...cum Sancto Spiritu

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 1, Symphony

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 2, Recit. Comfort Ye, My People (Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 3, Aria. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted (Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 4, Chorus. And the Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 5, Recit. Thus Saith the Lord of Hosts (Bass)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 6, Aria. But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming? (Alto)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 7, Chorus. And He Shall Purify the Sons of Levi

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 8, Recit. Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive, and Bear a Son (Alto)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 9, Aria & Chorus. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (Alto, Chorus)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 10, Recit. For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth (Bass)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 11, Aria. The People That Walked in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light (Bass)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 12, Chorus. For Unto Us a Child Is Born

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 13, Pifa "Pastoral Symphony"

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 14, Recit. There Were Shepherds – And Lo, the Angel of the Lord – No. 15, And the Angel Said Unto Them – No. 16, And Suddenly (Soprano) – No. 17, Chorus. Glory to God in the Highest

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 17, Chorus. Glory to God in the Highest

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 18, Aria. Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (Soprano, 12/8 Version)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 19, Recit. Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind Be Opened (Alto)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 20, Duet. He Shall Feed His Flock Like a Shepherd (Alto, Soprano)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 21, Chorus. His Yoke Is Easy and His Burthen Is Light

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 22, Chorus. Behold the Lamb of God

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 24, Chorus. Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 25, Chorus. And with His Stripes We Are Healed

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 26, Chorus. All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 27, Recit. All They That See Him Laugh Him to Scorn (Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 28, Chorus. He Trusted in God That He Would Deliver Him

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 29, Recit. Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart (Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 30, Aria. Behold and See If There Be Any Sorrow Like Unto His Sorrow (Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 32, Aria. But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul in Hell (Soprano)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 33, Chorus. Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 35, Chorus. Let All the Angels of God Worship Him

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 36, Aria. Thou Art Gone Up on High (Alto)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 37, Chorus. The Lord Gave the Word

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 38, Aria. How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them That Preach (Soprano)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 39, Chorus. Their Sound Is Gone Out into All Lands

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 40, Aria. Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together? (Bass)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 41, Chorus. Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 43, Aria. Thou Shalt Break Them with a Rod of Iron (Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 44, Hallelujah Chorus

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 3: No. 46, Chorus. Since By Man Came Death

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 3: No. 50, Duet. O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? (Alto, Tenor)

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 3: No. 51, Chorus. But Thanks Be to God Who Giveth Us the Victory

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 3: No. 52, Aria. If God Be For Us, Who Can Be Against Us? (Alto)

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60: Overture

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Chorus: "Jealousy! Infernal pest"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit. acc. "See with what sad dejection"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "No longer, Fate, relentless frown"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit. acc: "O Herkules!" - Aria: "The world, when day's career is run"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Princess! be comforted, and hope the best"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "I feel, I feel the god"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Then I am lost!" - Aria:"There in myrtle .."

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Despair not!" - Aria: "Where congealed the northern streams"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Chorus: "O filial piety! O generous love!"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Banish your fears!" - Aria: "Begone, my fears"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "A train of captives, red with honest wounds"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: March

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Thanks to the powers above"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Aria: "My father! Ah! methinks I see"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Recit: "Now farewell, arms!" - Aria: "The god of battle quits the boody field"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 1: Chorus: "Crown with festal pomp the day"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "How blest the maid ordained to dwell"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "It must be so!"- Aria: "When beauty sorrow's"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "Whence this unjust suspicion?"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Ah! think what ills the jealous prove"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "It is too sure that Hercules is false"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "She knows my passion"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "From celestial seats descending"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Chorus: "Wanton god of amorous fires"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "Yes, I congratulate" - Aria: "Alcides' name"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "O glorious pattern" - Aria: "Resign thy club"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "You are deceived! Some villain has belied"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Aria: "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: "Some kinder power inspire me to regain"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Duet: "Joys of freedom, joys of power"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 2: Recit: Father of Hercules" - Chorus: "Love and Hymen"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Sinfonia

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of Trachin, mourn you valiant chief"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "O scene of unexampled woe"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Chorus: "Tyrants now no more shall dread"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit. acc: "O Jove! what land is this"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Great Jove! relieve his pains!"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "Let not fame the tidings spread"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit. acc: "Where shall I fly?"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Lo! the fair fatal cause of all this ruin!"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Aria: "My breast with tender pity swells"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Princess, rejoice! whose heaven-directed hand"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Words are too faint"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Duet: "O prince, whose virtues all admire"

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60 / Act 3: Recit: "Ye sons of freedom" - Chorus: "To him your grateful notes of praise belong"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67: Overture

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Your harps and cymbals"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Praise ye the Lord"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "With pious heart"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Almighty Power"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Imperial Solomon" - "Sacred rapture"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Throughout the land"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Bless'd be the Lord" - "What though I trace"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "And see my Queen"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Bless'd the day"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "Thou fair inhabitant" - "Welcome as the dawn of day"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "My blooming fair" - "Haste, haste"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "When thou art absent" - "With thee th'unshelter"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1: "May no rash intruder"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From the censer"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Prais'd be the Lord" - "When the sun"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Great prince" - "Thrice bless'd"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "My sovereign liege"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thou son of David " - "Words are weak"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "What says the other" - "Thy sentence, great king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Withhold the executing hand" - "Can I see my infant gor'd"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Israel' attend"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Thrice bless'd be the king"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "From the east unto the west"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "No more shall armed bands" - "Beneath the vine"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2: "Swell, swell the full chorus"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "From Arabia's spicy shores"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Sweep, sweep the string" - "Music, spread thy voice"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Now a diff'rent measure" - "Shake the dome"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Then at once from rage" - "Draw the tear"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Next the tortur'd soul" - "Thus rolling surges rises"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thy harmony's divine"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Thrice happy king" - "Golden columns"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "May peace in Salem ever dwell" - "Will the sun for- get to streak"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Adieu, fair queen" - "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows"

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3: "Praise the Lord"

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: Overture (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "T'was at the royal feast" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Timotheus placed on high" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV.75 / Part 1: "The song began from Jove" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "With ravish'd ears" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The praise of Bacchus then" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "He chose a mournful Muse" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "He sung Darius, great and good" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Behold Darius great and good" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The mighty master smiled to see" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Reprise - Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 1. Allegro (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 2. Largo - Adagio (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 3. Allegro - Adagio (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 4. Andante non presto (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Now strike the golden lyre again...Break his bond...Hark, hark! The horrid sound" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries...Behold, a ghastly band" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Give the vengeance due" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Thaïs led the way...The princes applaud" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Thus, long ago" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "At last divine Cecilia came" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Let's imitate her notes above!" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)