| # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|
| 1 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 16a. Aria (Belshazzar) "Let festal joy triumphant reign" - 16b. Recitative (Belshazzar, Nitocris) "For you, my friends, the nobles of my court" | Handel | 6:45 |
| 2 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 17. Aria (Nitocris) "The leafy honours of the field" | Handel | 7:10 |
| 3 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 18a. Recitative (Belshazzar, Nitocris) "It is the custom; I may say, the law"- art direction:
- Martin Sauer
- engineer:
- Jean Chatauret
- soprano vocals [Nitocris]:
- Rosemary Joshua
- tenor vocals [Belshazzar]:
- Allan Clayton
- orchestra:
- Les Arts Florissants
- conductor:
- William Christie
- recorded at:
- Conservatoire Maurice Ravel de Levallois-Perret in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France (from 2012-12-19 until 2012-12-21)
- recording of:
- Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act 1, Scene 4, Recitativo "It is the custom, I may say, the law" (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
- composer:
- George Frideric Handel (in 1744)
- librettist:
- Charles Jennens
- part of:
- Belshazzar, HWV 61: Act I
| Handel | 1:35 |
| 4 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 18b. Chorus of Jews "Recall, O king, thy rash command" | Handel | 2:32 |
| 5 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 19a. Recitative (Nitocris, Belshazzar) "They tell you true; nor can you be to learn" | Handel | 1:18 |
| 6 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 19b. Duet (Nitocris, Belshazzar) "O dearer than my life, forbear" | Handel | 4:45 |
| 7 | Belshazzar: Act I. Scene 5. 20. Chorus of Jews "By slow degrees the wrath of God to its meridian height ascends" | Handel | 6:08 |
| 8 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 1. 21. Chorus "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" - 22. Semichorus "Why faithless river dost thou leave" - 23. Semichorus "Euphrates hath his task fulfil'd" - 24. Chorus "Of things on earth, proud man must own" | Handel | 6:33 |
| 9 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 1. 25a. Recitative (Cyrus) "You, see my friends, a path into the city" - 25b. Aria (Cyrus) "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" - 26. Chorus of Persians "To arms, to arms, no more delay" | Handel | 6:07 |
| 10 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 27. Chorus "Ye tutelar gods of our empire, look down" | Handel | 2:52 |
| 11 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 28. Aria (Belshazzar) "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" | Handel | 2:35 |
| 12 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 29a. Accompagnato and Chorus (Belshazzar) "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" | Handel | 2:41 |
| 13 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 29b. Recitative (Belshazzar) "Call all our Wiseman, sorcerers, Chaldeans" - 30. Symphonie | Handel | 1:45 |
| 14 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 31a. Recitative (Belshazzar) "Ye sages, welcome always to your king" - 31b. Trio (Wisemen) "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" - 32a. Chorus "O misery! O terror! hopeless grief!" | Handel | 2:12 |
| 15 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 32b. Recitative (Nitocris, Belshazzar) "O king, live for ever!" - 32c. Recitative (Belshazzar) "Art thou that Daniel, of the Jewish captives?" - 33. Aria (Daniel) "No: to thyself thy trifles be" | Handel | 2:58 |
| 16 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 34. Accompagnato (Daniel) "Yet to obey his dread command" - 35. Accompagnato (Daniel) "Thou, O King, hast lifted up thyself" - 36. Recitative (Nitocris) "O sentence too severe! and yet too sure!" | Handel | 3:54 |
| 17 | Belshazzar: Act II. Scene 2. 37. Aria (Nitocris) "Regard, O son, my flowing tears" | Handel | 6:22 |
