HANDEL: Tobit

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Tobit (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Linda Perillo, soprano
Stephan MacLeod,
Alison Browner,
Knut Schoch, tenor
Maya Boog, soprano
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Recording date: 02-Jun-2001


1. Part I: Ouverture - 05:03
2. Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite) - 00:15
3. Part I Scene 1: Hear us, O Baal (Chorus) - 01:52
4. Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd is human joy (Tobit) - 00:51
5. Part I Scene 2: O Lord, whom we adore (Tobit) - Hear from thy mercies seat (Chorus) - 04:59
6. Part I Scene 3: Recitative: The Lord hath heard my pray'r (Tobias) - 00:27
7. Part I Scene 3: Air: Will God, whose mercies ever flow (Tobias) - 02:17
8. Part I Scene 3: Recitative: But Say, my Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit) - 00:42
9. Part I Scene 3: Duet: To Steal a Grave (Anna, Tobit) - 04:41
10. Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias) - 00:26
11. Part I Scene 3: Air: Boistrous Winds and Billows rolling (Tobias) - 07:39
12. Part I Scene 3: Tyrants may a while presume (Chorus) - 02:51
13. Part I Scene 4: Sinfonia - 00:49
14. Part I Scene 4: Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah) - 01:18
15. Part I Scene 4: Air: Paid be my Adoration (Sarah) - 02:35
16. Part I Scene 4: Recitative: Be comforted, my Daughter (Raguel) - 00:38
17. Part I Scene 4: Air: The Lord Sends his Thunders (Raguel) - 03:11
18. Part I Scene 4: All Pow'r in Heav'n above or Earth beneath (Chorus) - 02:51
19. Part II Scene 1: Sinfonia - 00:44
20. Part II Scene 1: Accompagnato: Alas! To what Variety of Ills (Tobit) - 01:54
21. Part II Scene 1: Air: In great Jehovah (Tobit) - 01:25
22. Part II Scene 2: Recitative: Happy in thee, my Son (Tobit) - 00:38
23. Part II Scene 2: Air: Descend, kind Pity (Azarias) - 08:57
24. Part II Scene 2: Impartial heav'n (Chorus) - 03:04
25. Part II Scene 3: Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt and Misery (A Ninevite) - 00:45
26. Part II Scene 3: O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus) - 01:50
27. Part II Scene 3: Ritornello - 00:31
28. Part II Scene 4: Recitative: Pain'd as I am (Tobit, Anna) - 00:51
29. Part II Scene 4: Air: Thy pleasing Face (Anna) - 07:41
30. Part II Scene 4: Recitative: O thou bright sun! (Anna) - 00:33
31. Part II Scene 4: Air: With darkness Deep, as is my woe (Anna) - 02:37
32. Part II Scene 5: Sinfonia - 00:20
33. Part II Scene 5: Recitative: What caution is too great (Tobit, Azarias) - 00:51

Tobit (more info)
Performed by: Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joachim Carlos Martini
Linda Perillo, soprano
Stephan MacLeod,
Alison Browner,
Knut Schoch, tenor
Maya Boog, soprano
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Recording date: 02-Jun-2001


1. Part II Scene 5: Air: Thou, God most high (Azarias) - 04:59
2. Part II Scene 5: Duet: Cease thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias) - 05:42
3. Part II Scene 5: The Clouded Scene begins to clear (Chorus) - 03:49
4. Part II Scene 6: Sinfonia - 03:09
5. Part II Scene 6: Recitative: How happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah) - 00:56
6. Part II Scene 6: Air: To nobler Joys aspiring (Sarah) - 04:54
7. Part II Scene 7: Recitative: O Azarias, I must freely own (Tobias, Azarias) - 00:40
8. Part II Scene 8: Recitative: The gratefull Tribute of our thanks (Raguel) - 00:20
9. Part II Scene 8: Air: Let Songs of varied measure (Raguel) - 04:25
10. Part II Scene 8: Now Love, that everlasting Joy (Chorus) - 02:28
11. Part II Scene 8: Happy, happy shall they be (Chorus) - 03:13
12. Part III Scene 1: Sinfonia - 00:44
13. Part III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Still am I persecuted (Tobit) - 00:36
14. Part III Scene 1: Air: Cease your Pride, deluded mortals (Tobit) - 02:19
15. Part III Scene 1: Tremble, Guilt, for Thou Shalt find (Chorus) - 02:42
16. Part III Scene 2: Sinfonia - 01:39
17. Part III Scene 2: Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit) - 00:18
18. Part III Scene 2: Accompagnato: Henceforth through all the changing Scenes of Life (Anna) - 00:31
19. Part III Scene 2: Air: My Son, how happy in this thy Sweet Return (Anna) - 04:03
20. Part III Scene 2: Let none Despair (Chorus) - 03:29
21. Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato and Recitative: Blest be the God of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel) - 01:25
22. Part III Scene 3: Air: May true Joy (Raguel) - 04:05
23. Part III Scene 3: Terzetto: More chearfull appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah) - 05:03
24. Part III Scene 3: Air: Watchful angels (Sarah) - 01:32
25. Part III Scene 3: Recitative: O King of Kings (Sarah) - 00:29
26. Part III Scene 3: Air: Allelujah (Sarah) - 03:20
27. Part III Scene 3: Swift our numbers (Chorus) - 02:39
28. Part III Scene 3: Recitative: 'Tis well (Raphael) - 00:20
29. Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato: O Nineveh! (Raphael) - 01:25
30. Part III Scene 3: Air: In Jehovah's awful sight (Raphael) - 02:01
31. Part III Scene 3: Symphony - 02:37
32. Part III Scene 3: Recitative: Saw ye the radiant Streams of Light (Tobit) - 00:38
33. Part III Scene 3: Ye servants of th'eternal King (Soloists, Chorus) - 03:17

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