Solomon

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

• 1 Solomon: Overture: [Grave] - Fuga: Allegro moderato - Allegro 6:41
• 2 Solomon, Act I: "Your Harps and Cymbals Sound" (Chorus) 3:16
• 3 Solomon, Act I: "Praise Ye the Lord" (Air: Levite) 5:06
• 4 Solomon, Act I: "With Pious Heart" (Chorus) 4:24
• 5 Solomon, Act I: "Almighty Pow'r" (Air: Solomon) 3:19
• 6 Solomon, Act I: "Imperial Solomon" (Accompagnato: Zadok) 0:38
• 7 Solomon, Act I: "Sacred Raptures" (Air: Zadok) 4:11
• 8 Solomon, Act I: "Throughout the Land" (Chorus) 3:32
• 9 Solomon, Act I: "Bless'd Be the Lord" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:31
• 10 Solomon, Act I: "What Tho' I trace" (Air: Solomon) 6:29
• 11 Solomon, Act I: "And See My Queen" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:45
• 12 Solomon, Act I: "Bless'd the Day" (Air: Queen) 4:20
• 13 Solomon, Act I: "Thou Fair Inhabitant of Nile" (Recitative: Solomon, Queen) 0:41
• 14 Solomon, Act I: "Welcome as the Dawn of Day" (Duet: Queen, Solomon) 3:15
• 15 Solomon, Act I: "Vain Are the Transient Beauties" (Recitative: Zadok) 0:41
• 16 Solomon, Act I: "Indulge Thy Faith" (Air: Zadok) 3:38
• 17 Solomon, Act I: "My Blooming Fair" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:10
• 18 Solomon, Act I: "Haste to the Cedar Grove" (Air: Solomon) 2:47
• 19 Solomon, Act I: "When Thou Art Absent" (Recitative: Queen) 0:18
• 20 Solomon, Act I: "With Thee th'unshelter'd Moor" (Air: Queen) 2:10
• 21 Solomon, Act I: "Search Round the World" (Recitative: Zadok) 0:20
• 22 Solomon, Act I: "May No Rash Intruder" (Chorus) 4:21

Disc 2

• 1 Solomon, Act II: "From the Censer Curling Rise" (Chorus) 5:01
• 2 Solomon, Act II: "Prais'd Be the Lord" (Recitative: Solomon) 1:13
• 3 Solomon, Act II: "When the Sun O'er Yonder Hills" (Air: Solomon) 4:04
• 4 Solomon, Act II: "Great Prince" (Recitative: Levite) 0:21
• 5 Solomon, Act II: "Thrice Bless'd That Wise Discerning King" (Air: Levite) 3:08
• 6 Solomon, Act II: "My Sovereign Liege" (Recitative: Attendant, Solomon, 1st Harlot) 1:54
• 7 Solomon, Act II: "Words Are Weak" (Trio: 1st Harlot, 2nd Harlot, Solomon) 5:27
• 8 Solomon, Act II: "What Says the Other" (Recitative: Solomon, 2nd Harlot) 1:22
• 9 Solomon, Act II: "Thy Sentence, Great King" (Air: 2nd Harlot) 1:48
• 10 Solomon, Act II: "Withhold, Withhold the Executing Hand!" (Recitative: 1st Harlot) 0:13
• 11 Solomon, Act II: "Can I See My Infant Gor'd" (Air: 1st Harlot) 4:38
• 12 Solomon, Act II: "Israel, Attend" (Accompagnato: Solomon) 1:55
• 13 Solomon, Act II: "Thrice Bless'd Be the King" (Duet: 1st Harlot, Solomon) 3:39
• 14 Solomon, Act II: "From the East Unto the West" (Chorus) 2:32
• 15 Solomon, Act II: "From Morn to Eve" (Recitative: Zadok) 0:23
• 16 Solomon, Act II: "See the Tall Palm" (Air: Zadok) 4:52
• 17 Solomon, Act II: "No More Shall Armed Bands" (Recitative: 1st Harlot) 0:21
• 18 Solomon, Act II: "Beneath the Vine" (Air: 1st Harlot) 5:02
• 19 Solomon, Act II: "Swell, Swell the Full Chorus" (Chorus) 2:57

Disc 3

• 1 Solomon, Act III: Symfony 2:54
• 2 Solomon, Act III: "From Arabia's Spicy Shores" (Recitative: Queen of Sheba, Solomon) 1:19
• 3 Solomon, Act III: "Ev'ry Sight These Eyes Behold" (Air: Queen of Sheba) 4:15
• 4 Solomon, Act III: "Sweet, Sweep the String" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:17
• 5 Solomon, Act III: "Music, Spread Thy Voice Around" (Air: Solomon, Chorus) 3:48
• 6 Solomon, Act III: "Now a Diff'rent Measure Try" (Air: Solomon, Chorus) 1:41
• 7 Solomon, Act III: "Then at Once From Rage Remove" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:44
• 8 Solomon, Act III: "Draw the Tear From Hopeless Love" (Chorus) 3:01
• 9 Solomon, Act III: "Next the Tortur'd Soul Release" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:16
• 10 Solomon, Act III: "Thus Rolling Surges Rise" (Air: Solomon, Chorus) 3:18
• 11 Solomon, Act III: "Thy Harmony's Divine" (Recitative: Queen of Sheba) 1:08
• 12 Solomon, Act III: "Pious King" (Air: Levite) 2:40
• 13 Solomon, Act III: "Thrice Happy King" (Recitative: Zadok) 0:49
• 14 Solomon, Act III: "Golden Columns"(Air: Zadok) 3:09
• 15 Solomon, Act III: "Praise the Lord" (Chorus) 4:16
• 16 Solomon, Act III: "Gold Now Is Common" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:29
• 17 Solomon, Act III: "How Green Our Fertile Pastures Look!" (Air: Solomon) 1:55
• 18 Solomon, Act III: "May Peace in Salem" (Recitative: Queen of Sheba) 0:53
• 19 Solomon, Act III: "Will the Sun Forget to Streak" (Air: Queen of Sheba) 6:20
• 20 Solomon, Act III: "Adieu, Fair Queen" (Recitative: Solomon) 0:15
• 21 Solomon, Act III: "Ev'ry Joy That Wisdom Knows" (Duet: Queen of Sheba, Solomon) 2:29
• 22 Solomon, Act III: "The Name of the Wicked" (Grand Chorus) 2:23

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