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Tobit, Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd Is Human Joy (Tobit)

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Tobit, Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd Is Human Joy (Tobit)

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On Tobit (Oratorio In Three Parts)

2007 · 66 tracks

01Tobit, Part II Scene 5: Air: Thou, God Most High (Azarias)4:58
01Tobit, Part I: Ouverture5:02
02Tobit, Part II Scene 5: Duet: Cease Thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias)5:43
02Tobit, Part I Scene 1: Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite)0:15
03Tobit, Part I Scene 1: Hear Us, O Baal (Chorus)1:53
03Tobit, Part II Scene 5: The Clouded Scene Begins to Clear (Chorus)3:49
04Tobit, Part I Scene 2: Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd Is Human Joy (Tobit)0:51
04Tobit, Part II Scene 6: Sinfonia3:09
05Tobit, Part II Scene 6: Recitative: How Happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah)0:56
05Tobit, Part I Scene 2: O Lord, Whom We Adore (Tobit) - Hear from Thy Mercies Seat (Chorus)4:59
06Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Recitative: The Lord Hath Heard My Pray'r (Tobias)0:27
06Tobit, Part II Scene 6: Air: To Nobler Joys Aspiring (Sarah)4:54
07Tobit, Part II Scene 7: Recitative: O Azarias, I Must Freely Own (Tobias, Azarias)0:40
07Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Air: Will God, Whose Mercies Ever Flow (Tobias)2:18
08Tobit, Part II Scene 8: Recitative: The Gratefull Tribute of Our Thanks (Raguel)0:20
08Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Recitative: But Say, My Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit)0:43
09Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Duet: To Steal a Grave (Anna, Tobit)4:42
09Tobit, Part II Scene 8: Air: Let Songs of Varied Measure (Raguel)4:26
10Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias)0:26
10Tobit, Part II Scene 8: Now Love, That Everlasting Joy (Chorus)2:27
11Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Air: Boistrous Winds and Billows Rolling (Tobias)7:40
11Tobit, Part II Scene 8: Happy, Happy Shall They Be (Chorus)3:14
12Tobit, Part III Scene 1: Sinfonia0:44
12Tobit, Part I Scene 3: Tyrants May a While Presume (Chorus)2:51
13Tobit, Part III Scene 1: Accompagnato: Still Am I Persecuted (Tobit)0:37
13Tobit, Part I Scene 4: Sinfonia0:49
14Tobit, Part III Scene 1: Air: Cease Your Pride, Deluded Mortals (Tobit)2:20
14Tobit, Part I Scene 4: Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah)1:18
15Tobit, Part III Scene 1: Tremble, Guilt, for Thou Shalt Find (Chorus)2:41
15Tobit, Part I Scene 4: Air: Paid Be My Adoration (Sarah)2:36
16Tobit, Part I Scene 4: Recitative: Be Comforted, My Daughter (Raguel)0:38
16Tobit, Part III Scene 2: Sinfonia1:40
17Tobit, Part III Scene 2: Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit)0:18
17Tobit, Part I Scene 4: Air: The Lord Sends His Thunders (Raguel)3:11
18Tobit, Part I Scene 4: All Pow'r In Heav'n Above or Earth Beneath (Chorus)2:57
18Tobit, Part III Scene 2: Accompagnato: Henceforth Through All the Changing Scenes of Life (Anna)0:32
19Tobit, Part III Scene 2: Air: My Son, How Happy In This Thy Sweet Return (Anna)4:03
19Tobit, Part II Scene 1: Sinfonia0:38
20Tobit, Part II Scene 1: Accompagnato: Alas! To What Variety of Ills (Tobit)1:55
20Tobit, Part III Scene 2: Let None Despair (Chorus)3:29
21Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato and Recitative: Blest Be the God of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel)1:25
21Tobit, Part II Scene 1: Air: In Great Jehovah (Tobit)1:25
22Tobit, Part II Scene 2: Recitative: Happy in Thee, My Son (Tobit)0:40
22Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Air: May True Joy (Raguel)4:06
23Tobit, Part II Scene 2: Air: Descend, Kind Pity (Azarias)8:55
23Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Terzetto: More Chearfull Appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah)5:03
24Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Air: Watchful Angels (Sarah)1:32
24Tobit, Part II Scene 2: Impartial Heav'n (Chorus)3:04
25Tobit, Part II Scene 3: Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt and Misery (A Ninevite)0:45
25Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Recitative: O King of Kings (Sarah)0:29
26Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Air: Allelujah (Sarah)3:21
26Tobit, Part II Scene 3: O Baal, Monarch of the Skies! (Chorus)1:51
27Tobit, Part II Scene 3: Ritornello0:32
27Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Swift Our Numbers (Chorus)2:39
28Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Recitative: 'Tis Well (Raphael)0:21
28Tobit, Part II Scene 4: Recitative: Pain'd As I Am (Tobit, Anna)0:51
29Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Accompagnato: O Nineveh! (Raphael)1:25
29Tobit, Part II Scene 4: Air: Thy Pleasing Face (Anna)7:42
30Tobit, Part II Scene 4: Recitative: O Thou Bright Sun! (Anna)0:33
30Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Air: In Jehovah's Awful Sight (Raphael)2:02
31Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Symphony2:38
31Tobit, Part II Scene 4: Air: With Darkness Deep, As Is My Woe (Anna)2:38
32Tobit, Part II Scene 5: Sinfonia0:21
32Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Recitative: Saw Ye the Radiant Streams of Light (Tobit)0:39
33Tobit, Part II Scene 5: Recitative: What Caution Is Too Great (Tobit, Azarias)0:52
33Tobit, Part III Scene 3: Ye Servants of Th'eternal King (Soloists, Chorus)3:17