Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 8, O Hear Thy Lowly Servants' Pray'r (Chorus)

Choir of New College Oxford, The King's Consort, Salisbury Cathedral Choristers, Robert King & George Frideric Handel

Handel: Deborah

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: Overture. Grave – Allegro – Minuet

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 1, Immortal Lord of Earth and Skies (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 2, Recit. O Barak, Favour'd of the Skies (Deborah/Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 3, Duet. Where Do Thy Ardours Raise Me? (Barak/Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 4, Forbear Thy Doubts! To Arms! Away! (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 5, Recit. Since Heav'n Has Thus His Will Express'd (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 6, For Ever to the Voice of Pray'r (Soli/Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 7, Recit. By That Adorable Decree (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 8, O Hear Thy Lowly Servants' Pray'r (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 9, Recit. Ye Sons of Israel, Cease Your Fears (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 10, O Blast, with Thy Tremendous Brow

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 11, Recit. To Whomsoe'er His Fate the Tyrant Owes (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 12, Air. How Lovely Is the Blooming Fair (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 13, Recit. O Deborah! Where'er I Turn My Eyes (Jael/Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 14, Air. Choirs of Angels, All Around Thee (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 15, Recit. My Transports Are Too Great to Tell (Jael)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 16, Air. To Joy He Brightens My Despair (Jael)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 17, Recit. Barak, My Son, the Joyful Sound (Abinoam)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 18, Air. Awake the Ardour of Thy Breast (Abinoam)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 19, Recit. I Go Where Heav'n and Duty Call (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 20, Air. All Danger Disdaining (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 21. Let Thy Deeds Be Glorious (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 22, Recit. My Charge Is to Declare (Herald/Barak/Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 23, Despair All Around Them (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 1, See, the Proud Chief Advances Now (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 2, Recit. That Here Rebellious Arms I See (Sisera)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 3, Air. At My Feet Extended Low (Sisera)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 4, Recit. Go Frown, Barbarian (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 5, Air. In Jehovah's Awful Sight (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 6, Recit. Yes, How Your God in Wonders Can Excel (Sisera)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 7, Air. Whilst You Boast the Wondrous Story (Sisera)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 8, Air. Impious Mortal, Cease to Brave (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 9, Recit. Behold the Nations All Around (Chief Priest of Baal)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 10, O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus of Baal's Priests)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 11, Recit. No More, Ye Infidels, No More! (Chief Priest of the Israelites)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 12, Lord of Eternity, Who Hast in Store (Chorus of Israelites)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 13, Recit. By His Great Name, and His Alone (Deborah/Sisera)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 14, All Your Boast Will End in Woe (Soli/Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 15, Recit. Great Prophetess, My Soul's on Fire (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 16, Air. In the Battle, Fame Pursuing (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 17, Recit. Thy Ardours Warm the Winter of My Age (Abinoam)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 18, Air. Swift Inundation of Desolation (Abinoam)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 19, Recit. O Judah, with What Joy I See (Israelite Woman)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 20, Air. No More Disconsolate I'll Mourn (Israelite Woman)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 21, Recit. Now, Jael, to Thy Tent Retire (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 22, Air. O the Pleasure My Soul Is Possessing (Jael)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 23, Recit. Barak, We Now to Battle Go (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 24, Duet. Smiling Freedom, Lovely Guest (Deborah/Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 2: No. 25, The Great King of Kings Will Aid Us Today (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 1, A Grand Miltary Symphony. Now the Proud Insulting Foe (Chorus of Israelites)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 2, Recit. The Haughty Foe Whose Pride to Heav'n Did Soar (Israelite Woman)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 3, Air. Now Sweetly Smiling Peace Descends (Israelite Woman)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 4, Recit. My Pray'rs Are Heard, the Blessings of This Day (Abinoam/Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 5, Air. Tears, Such as Tender Fathers Shed (Abinoam)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 6, Recit. O Deborah, My Fears Are O'er (Jael)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 7, Doleful Tidings, How Ye Wound (Chorus of Baal's Priests)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 8, Air. Our Fears Are Now Forever Fled (Israelite Woman)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 9, Recit. I Saw the Tyrant Breathless in Her Tent (Barak/Jael)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 10, Air. Tyrant, Now No More We Dread Thee (Jael)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 11, Recit. If, Jael, I a Right Divine (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 12, Air. The Glorious Sun Shall Cease to Shed (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 13, Recit. May Heav'n, with Kind Profusion, Shed (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 14, Air. Low at Her Feet He Bow'd, He Fell (Barak)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 15, Recit. O Great Jehovah! May Thy Foes (Deborah)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 3: No. 16, Let Our Glad Songs to Heav'n Ascend (Chorus)

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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Pt. 1: No. 8, O Hear Thy Lowly Servants' Pray'r (Chorus)

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