Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720

01	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: I. Andante	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:58
	Composers: George Frideric Handel
02	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: II. Larghetto	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:35
	Composers: George Frideric Handel
03	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: III. Allegro	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:26
	Composers: George Frideric Handel
04	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: I. Recitative "'Tis Greater Far to Spare, Than to Destroy"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:41
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
05	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: II. Air "Pluck Root and Branch from out the Land"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:59
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
06	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: III. Recitative "Our Souls with Ardour Glow"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:07
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
07	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 1: IV. Chorus "Shall We the God of Israel's Fear?"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:51
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
08	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: I. Recitative "Now Persecution Shall Lay by Her Iron Rod"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:16
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
09	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: II. Air "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	04:21
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
10	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: III. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:24
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
11	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: IV. Recitative "O God, Who from the Suckling's Mouth"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:16
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
12	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: V. Air "Praise the Lord with Cheerful Noise"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	05:38
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
13	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 2: VI. Chorus "Shall We of Servitude Complain"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:24
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
14	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: I. Recitative "How Have Our Sins Provok'd the Lord"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:05
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
15	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: II. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:52
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
16	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: III. Air "O Jordan, Jordan, Sacred Tide"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	07:42
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
17	Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Scene 3: IV. Chorus "Ye Sons of Israel Mourn"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:09
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
18	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: I. Recitative "Why Sits That Sorrow on thy Brow?"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:02
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
19	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: II. Air "Dread Not, Righteous Queen, the Danger"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	04:25
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
20	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: III. Recitative "I Go Before the King to Stand"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:13
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
21	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: IV. Air "Tears Assist Me, Pity Moving"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:50
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
22	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 1: V. Chorus "Save Us, O Lord"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:27
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
23	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: I. Recitative "Who Dares Intrude into Our Presence Without Our Leave?"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:09
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
24	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: II. Duet "Who Calls My Parting Soul from Death?"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:46
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
25	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: III. Air "O Beauteous Queen, Unclose Those Eyes!"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	07:18
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
26	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: IV. Recitative "If I Find Favour in thy Sight"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:19
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
27	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: V. Air "How Can I Stay, When Love Invites?"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	03:08
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
28	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: VI. Recitative "With Inward Joy His Visage Glows"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:15
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
29	Esther, HWV 50a, Act II Scene 2: VII. Chorus "Virtue, Truth and Innocence"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:42
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
01	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 1: I. Air "Jehovah Crown'd with Glory Bright"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:57
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
02	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 1: II. Chorus "He Comes, He Comes to End Our Woes"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	04:17
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
03	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: I. Recitative "Now, O Queen, They Suit Declare"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	01:38
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
04	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: II. Accompagnato "Turn Not, O Queen, thy Face Away"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	02:36
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
05	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: III. Air "Flatt'ring Tongue, No More I Hear Thee!"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	04:52
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
06	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: IV. Recitative "Guards, Seize the Traitor, Bear Him Hence!"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	00:40
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
07	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: V. Air "How Art Thou Fall'n from thy Height!"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	06:10
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel
08	Esther, HWV 50a, Act III Scene 2: VI. Chorus "The Lord Our Enemy Has Slain"	Dunedin Consort	Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720	11:56
	Writer: John Arbuthnot - Alexander Pope / Composers: George Frideric Handel

01

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: I. Andante

Dunedin Consort

01:58

02

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: II. Larghetto

Dunedin Consort

Handel: Esther, First Reconstructable Version (Cannons), 1720

02:35

03

Esther, HWV 50a, Act I Overture: III. Allegro