Joshua

Handel; Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Aidan Oliver, John Mark Ainsley, Michael George, Choir of New College Oxford, The King’s Consort, Robert King

Type	Album
Released	April 1991
Label	Hyperion
Genre	Classical
Style	Baroque Oratorio

Tracks

56 tracks, 2 hr 4 min
#	Title	Duration
Disc 1
1	Joshua: Act I. Introduction	1:32
2	Joshua: Act I. "Ye sons of Israel"	4:34
3	Joshua: Act I. "Behold, my friends"	1:02
4	Joshua: Act I. "O first in wisdom"	2:22
5	Joshua: Act I. "Matrons and virgins"	0:27
6	Joshua: Act I. "Oh! who can tell"	5:32
7	Joshua: Act I. "Caleb, attend to all I now prescribe"	0:43
8	Joshua: Act I. "To long posterity we here record"	2:21
9	Joshua: Act I. "So long the memory shall last"	0:42
10	Joshua: Act I. "While Kedron's brook to Jordan's stream"	4:46
11	Joshua: Act I. "But who is he?"	0:52
12	Joshua: Act I. "Awful, pleasing being, say"	2:42
13	Joshua: Act I. "Joshua, I come commission'd from on high"	2:00
14	Joshua: Act I. "Haste, Israel haste"	2:24
15	Joshua: Act I. "The Lord commands"	2:27
16	Joshua: Act I. "In these blest scenes"	3:48
17	Joshua: Act I. "Hark! 'tis the linnet and the thrush"	5:48
18	Joshua: Act I. "O Achsah, form'd for ev'ry chaste delight"	0:53
19	Joshua: Act I. "Our limpid streams with freedom flow"	3:09
20	Joshua: Act I. "The trumpet calls"	0:31
21	Joshua: Act I. "May all the host of heav'n attend him round"	1:48
22	Joshua: Act II. "'Tis well"	0:24
23	Joshua: Act II. "A Solemn March During the Circumvection of the Ark of the Covenant"	1:37
24	Joshua: Act II. "Glory to God!"	5:45
25	Joshua: Act II. "The walls are levell'd"	0:29
26	Joshua: Act II. "See, the raging flames arise"	3:25
27	Joshua: Act II. "To Vanity and earthly Pride"	3:30
Disc 2
1	Joshua: Act II. "Let all the seed of Abrah'm now prepare"	0:22
2	Joshua: Act II. "Almight ruler of the skies"	2:20
3	Joshua: Act II. "Joshua, the men dispatch'd by thee to learn"	0:50
4	Joshua: Act II. "How soon our tow'ring hopes are cross'd!"	2:51
5	Joshua: Act II. "Whence this dejection?"	0:22
6	Joshua: Act II. "With redoubled rage return"	3:42
7	Joshua: Act II. "Now give the army breath"	0:25
8	Joshua: Act II. "Heroes when with glory burning"	3:48
9	Joshua: Act II. "Indulgent heav'n hath heard my virgin pray'r"	0:28
10	Joshua: Act II. "As cheers the sun the tender flow'r"	2:28
11	Joshua: Act II. "Sure I'm deceiv'd"	1:25
12	Joshua: Act II. "Nations, who in future story"	3:07
13	Joshua: Act II. "Brethren and friends"	1:05
14	Joshua: Act II. "Oh! thou bright orb"	3:36
15	Joshua: Act III. "Hail! mighty Joshua, hail!"	4:04
16	Joshua: Act III. "Happy, Oh, thrice happy we"	3:26
17	Joshua: Act III. "Caleb, for holy Eleazer send"	2:03
18	Joshua: Act III. "Shall I in Mamre's fertile plain"	4:45
19	Joshua: Act III. "O Caleb, fear'd by foes"	1:13
20	Joshua: Act III. "Place danger around me"	1:53
21	Joshua: Act III. "Father of mercy, hear the pray'r we make"	2:11
22	Joshua: Act III. "In bloom of youth, this stripling hath achiev'd"	0:31
23	Joshua: Act III. "See the conqu'ring hero comes!"	3:03
24	Joshua: Act III. "Welcome! my son"	0:47
25	Joshua: Act III. "Oh! had I Jubal's lyre"	2:48
26	Joshua: Act III. "While life shall last"	0:15
27	Joshua: Act III. "O peerless maid"	2:26
28	Joshua: Act III. "While lawless tyrants"	0:38
29	Joshua: Act III. "The great Jehovah is our awful theme"	2:16