Handel: Alexander Balus

Act 1 Scene 1 No 03. Air. Great Author of this harmony (Jonathan)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 04. Flourish of trumpets

Act 1 Scene 1 No 05. Recitative. And thus let happy Egypt's king (Ptolomee)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 06. Air. Thrice happy the monarch, whom nations content (Ptolomee)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 07. Recitative. Congratulation to our father's friend (Cleopatra)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 08. Air. Hark! hark! he strikes the golden lyre (Cleopatra)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 09. Recitative. Be it my chief ambition there to rise (Alexander)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 10. Air. Fair virtue shall charm me (Alexander)

Act 1 Scene 1 No 11. Chorus. Ye happy nations round (Asiates)

Act 1 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative. My Jonathan (Alexander)

Act 1 Scene 2 No 2. Air. Oh, what resistless charms are giv'n (Alexander)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 1. Air. Subtle love, with fancy viewing (Cleopatra)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 2. Recitative. Aspasia, I know not what to call (Cleopatra)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 3. Air. How happy should we mortals prove (Cleopatra)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 4. Recitative. Check not the pleasing accents of thy tongue (Aspasia)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 5. Air. So shall the sweet attractive smile (Aspasia)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 6. Recitative. How blissful state! (Cleopatra / Aspasia)

Act 1 Scene 3 No 7. Duet. O what pleasures, past expressing (Cleopatra / Aspasia)

Act 1 Scene 4 No 1. Recitative. Why hangs this heavy gloom upon the brow (Jonathan / Alexander)

Act 1 Scene 4 No 2. Air. Heroes may boast their mighty deed (Alexander)

Act 1 Scene 5 No 1. Recitative. Ye sons of Judah, with high festival (Jonathan)

Act 1 Scene 5 No 2. Air with chorus. Great God, from whom all blessings spring (Jonathan / Israelites)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 1. Air. Kind hope, thou universal friend (Alexander)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 2. Recitative. Long, long and happy live the king! (Jonathan / Alexander)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 3. Air. O Mithra, with thy brightest beams (Alexander)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 4. Recitative. Stay, my dread sovereign (Sycophant courtier / Alexander / Jonathan)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 5. Air. Mighty love now calls to arm (Alexander)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 6. Air. Hateful man! thy sland'rous tongue (Jonathan)

Act 2 Scene 1 No 7. Chorus. O calumny, on virtue waiting (Israelites)

Act 2 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative. Ah! whence these dire forebodings of the mind? (Cleopatra)

Act 2 Scene 2 No 2. Air. Tossed from thought to thought I rove (Cleopatra)

Act 2 Scene 2 No 3. Recitative. Give to the winds, fair princess, these vain doubts (Aspasia)

Act 2 Scene 2 No 4. Air. Love, glory, ambition, whate'er can inspire (Aspasia)

Act 2 Scene 3 No 1. Recitative. Thus far my wishes thrive (Ptolomee)

Act 2 Scene 3 No 2. Air. Virtue, thou ideal name (Ptolomee)

Act 2 Scene 4 No 1. Accompagnato. Ye happy people, with loud accents speak (Jonathan)

Act 2 Scene 4 No 2. Soli with chorus. Triumph Hymen in the pair

Act 2 Scene 4 No 3. Recitative. Glad time, at length, hath reach'd the happy point (Alexander / Cleopatra)

Act 2 Scene 4 No 4. Duet. Hail wedded love, mysterious law! (Alexander / Cleopatra)

Act 2 Scene 4 No 5. Chorus. Hymen, fair Urania's son (Asiates)

Act 3 Introduction. Sinfonia

Act 3 Scene 1 No 1. Recitative. 'Tis true, instinctive nature seldom points (Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 1 No 2. Air with chorus. Here amid the shady woods (Cleopatra / Ruffians)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative. Ah! was it not my Cleopatra's voice? (Alexander)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 2. Air. Pow'rful guardians of all nature (Alexander)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 3. Recitative. Treach'ry, O king, unheard of treachery (Jonathan / Alexander / Aspasia)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 4. Air. Fury, with red sparkling eyes (Alexander)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 5. Recitative. Gods! can there be a more afflicting sight (Aspasia)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 6. Air. Strange reverse of human fate (Aspasia)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 7. Recitative. May he return with laurel'd victory (Jonathan)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 8. Air. To God who made the radiant sun (Jonathan)

Act 3 Scene 2 No 9. Chorus. Sun, moon, and stars, and all ye Host of Heav'n (Israelites)

Act 3 Scene 3 No 1. Recitative. Yes he was false, my daughter, false to you (Jonathan / Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 3 No 2. Accompagnato. Ungrateful child, by ev'ry sacred pow'r (Ptolomee)

Act 3 Scene 3 No 3. Air. O sword, and thou, all-daring hand (Ptolomee)

Act 3 Scene 4 No 1. Accompagnato. Shall Cleopatra ever smile again? (Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 4 No 2. Recitative. Ungrateful tidings to the royal ear (Messenger)

Act 3 Scene 4 No 3. Air. O take me from this hateful light (Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 4 No 4. Recitative. Forgive, O queen, the messenger of ill! (Second messenger / Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 4 No 5. Accompagnato. Calm thou my soul (Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 4 No 6. Air. Convey me to some peaceful shore (Cleopatra)

Act 3 Scene 5 No 1. Recitative. Mysterious are thy ways, O Providence! (Jonathan)

Act 3 Scene 5 No 2. Chorus with solo. Ye servants of th' eternal King (Jonathan / Israelites)