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Sommi Dei (Radamisto)
Priva son d’ogni conforta (Giulio Cesare)
Troppo sofferse (Radamisto)
Lascia, ch’io pianga (Rinaldo)
Tiranni miei pensieri (Tolomeo)
Deh, voi mi dite (Siroe)
Rendi’l sereno al ciglio (Sosarme)
How willing my paternal love (Samson)
My father! (Hercules)
Shall I in Mamre’s fertile plain (Joshua)
Waft her, angels (Jephtha)
Tears, such as tender fathers shed (Deborah)
Peace crowned with roses (Susanna)
Would you gain the tender creature (Acis and Galatea)
Consider, fond shepherd (Acis and Galatea)
Gentle airs, melodious strains (Athalia)
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures (Alexander’s Feast)
Fell rage and black despair (Saul)
To fleeting pleasures (Samson)
My breast with tender pity swells (Hercules)
Oh, mirror of our fickle state (Samson)
He sung Darius (Alexander’s Feast)
Turn, hopeless lover (Semele)
Comfort ye (Messiah)
Behold and see (Messiah)
He was despised (Messiah)
Descend, kind pity (Theodora)
Round thy urn (Susanna)
Return, o God of hosts (Samson)
The Holy One of Israel (Samson)
Great God, who, yet but darkly known (Belshazzar)
Bending to the throne of glory (Susanna)
If guiltless blood be your intent (Susanna)
Pious orgies, pious airs (Judas Maccabaeus)
Powerful guardians of all nature (Alexander Balus)
As with rosy steps (Theodora)
With darkness deep (Theodora)
Defend her heaven (Theodora)
Angels, ever bright and fair (Theodora)
Kind heaven, if virtue be thy care (Theodora)
Guilt trembling (Susanna)
Guardian angels (The Triumph of Time and Truth)
O Lord, whose mercies (Saul)
Vouchsafe, o Lord (Dettinger Te Deum)
O come, let us worship and fall down (Chandos Anthem no. 8)
His sceptre is the rod of righteousness (Occasional Oratorio)
Thou, God most high (Belshazzar)
Lord to thee, each night and day (Theodora)
Father of heaven (Judas Maccabaeus)
When the sun o’er yonder hills (Solomon)
Daughter of gods (Hercules)
Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay (The Choice of Hercules)
Faithful mirror (The Triumph of Time and Truth)
Ever-flowing tides of pleasure (The Triumph of Time and Truth)
Pleasure, my former ways (The Triumph of Time and Truth)