Joshua

by George Frideric Handel; Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Aidan Oliver, John Mark Ainsley, Michael George, Choir of New College Oxford, The King’s Consort, Robert King

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Joshua: Act I. Introduction1:32
  2. Joshua: Act I. "Ye sons of Israel"4:34
  3. Joshua: Act I. "Behold, my friends"1:02
  4. Joshua: Act I. "O first in wisdom"2:22
  5. Joshua: Act I. "Matrons and virgins"0:27
  6. Joshua: Act I. "Oh! who can tell"5:32
  7. Joshua: Act I. "Caleb, attend to all I now prescribe"0:43
  8. Joshua: Act I. "To long posterity we here record"2:21
  9. Joshua: Act I. "So long the memory shall last"0:42
  10. Joshua: Act I. "While Kedron's brook to Jordan's stream"4:46
  11. Joshua: Act I. "But who is he?"0:52
  12. Joshua: Act I. "Awful, pleasing being, say"2:42
  13. Joshua: Act I. "Joshua, I come commission'd from on high"2:00
  14. Joshua: Act I. "Haste, Israel haste"2:24
  15. Joshua: Act I. "The Lord commands"2:27
  16. Joshua: Act I. "In these blest scenes"3:48
  17. Joshua: Act I. "Hark! 'tis the linnet and the thrush"5:48
  18. Joshua: Act I. "O Achsah, form'd for ev'ry chaste delight"0:53
  19. Joshua: Act I. "Our limpid streams with freedom flow"3:09
  20. Joshua: Act I. "The trumpet calls"0:31
  21. Joshua: Act I. "May all the host of heav'n attend him round"1:48
  22. Joshua: Act II. "'Tis well"0:24
  23. Joshua: Act II. "A Solemn March During the Circumvection of the Ark of the Covenant"1:37
  24. Joshua: Act II. "Glory to God!"5:45
  25. Joshua: Act II. "The walls are levell'd"0:29
  26. Joshua: Act II. "See, the raging flames arise"3:25
  27. Joshua: Act II. "To Vanity and earthly Pride"3:30

CD 2

  1. Joshua: Act II. "Let all the seed of Abrah'm now prepare"0:22
  2. Joshua: Act II. "Almight ruler of the skies"2:20
  3. Joshua: Act II. "Joshua, the men dispatch'd by thee to learn"0:50
  4. Joshua: Act II. "How soon our tow'ring hopes are cross'd!"2:51
  5. Joshua: Act II. "Whence this dejection?"0:22
  6. Joshua: Act II. "With redoubled rage return"3:42
  7. Joshua: Act II. "Now give the army breath"0:25
  8. Joshua: Act II. "Heroes when with glory burning"3:48
  9. Joshua: Act II. "Indulgent heav'n hath heard my virgin pray'r"0:28
  10. Joshua: Act II. "As cheers the sun the tender flow'r"2:28
  11. Joshua: Act II. "Sure I'm deceiv'd"1:25
  12. Joshua: Act II. "Nations, who in future story"3:07
  13. Joshua: Act II. "Brethren and friends"1:05
  14. Joshua: Act II. "Oh! thou bright orb"3:36
  15. Joshua: Act III. "Hail! mighty Joshua, hail!"4:04
  16. Joshua: Act III. "Happy, Oh, thrice happy we"3:26
  17. Joshua: Act III. "Caleb, for holy Eleazer send"2:03
  18. Joshua: Act III. "Shall I in Mamre's fertile plain"4:45
  19. Joshua: Act III. "O Caleb, fear'd by foes"1:13
  20. Joshua: Act III. "Place danger around me"1:53
  21. Joshua: Act III. "Father of mercy, hear the pray'r we make"2:11
  22. Joshua: Act III. "In bloom of youth, this stripling hath achiev'd"0:31
  23. Joshua: Act III. "See the conqu'ring hero comes!"3:03
  24. Joshua: Act III. "Welcome! my son"0:47
  25. Joshua: Act III. "Oh! had I Jubal's lyre"2:48
  26. Joshua: Act III. "While life shall last"0:15
  27. Joshua: Act III. "O peerless maid"2:26
  28. Joshua: Act III. "While lawless tyrants"0:38
  29. Joshua: Act III. "The great Jehovah is our awful theme"2:16