Détail de "Joseph and his Brethren"


Part 1
Overture: Andante – Larghetto – Allegro – Menuet
Scene 1
Air: Be firm, my soul! nor faint beneath (Joseph)
Scene 2
No 1. Recitative: Joseph, thy fame has reach'd great Pharaoh's ear (Phanor/Joseph)
No 2. Air: Come, divine inspirer, come (Joseph)
No 3. Recitative: Pardon, that I so long forgot thee, Joseph! (Phanor/Joseph)
No 4. Air: Ingratitude's the queen of crimes (Phanor)
Scene 3
No 1. Recitative: Thus, stranger, I have laid my troubled thoughts (Pharaoh/Joseph)
No 2. Chorus: O God of Joseph, gracious shed thy spirit on thy servant's head (Egyptians)
No 3. Accompagnato: Pharaoh, thy dreams are one (Joseph)
No 4. Recitative: Divine interpreter! What oracle (Pharaoh/Joseph)
No 5. Air: O lovely youth, with wisdom crown'd (Asenath)
No 6. Recitative: Wear, worthy man, this Royal signet wear (Pharaoh)
No 7. Chorus: Joyful sounds, melodious strain! (Egyptians)
Scene 4
No 1. Recitative: Whence this unwonted ardour in my breast? (Asenath)
No 2. Air: I feel a spreading flame within my veins (Asenath)
No 3. Recitative: Fair Asenath (Joseph/Pharaoh/Potiphera/Asenath))
Scene 5
No 1. Duet: Celestial virgin! Godlike youth! (Joseph/Asenath)
No 2. Recitative: Now, Potiphera, instant to the temple (Pharaoh)
No 3: Grand march during the procession
Scene 6
No 1. Recitative: 'Tis done, – the sacred knot is tied (High Priest)
No 2. Chorus: Immortal pleasures crown this pair (Egyptians)
No 3. Recitative: Glorious and happy is thy lot, O Zaphnath! (Pharaoh)
No 4. Air: Since the race of time begun (Pharaoh)
No 5. Chorus: Swift our numbers, swiftly roll (Egyptians)
Part 2
Scene 1
No 1. Chorus: Hail, thou youth, by Heaven belov'd! (Egyptians)
No 2. Recitative: How vast a theme has Egypt for applause! (Phanor/Asenath)
No 3. Air: Our fruits, whilst yet in blossom, die (Asenath)
No 4. Recitative: He's Egypt's common parent, gives her bread (Phanor)
No 5. Chorus: Blest be the man by pow'r unstain'd (Egyptians)
No 6. Recitative: Phanor, we mention not his highest glory! (Asenath/Phanor)
No 7. Air: Together, lovely innocents, grow up (Asenath)
No 8. Recitative: He then is silent, then again exclaims (Asenath)
Scene 2
No 1. Accompagnato: Where are these brethren … why this base delay? (Simeon)
No 2. Air: Remorse, confusion, horror, fear (Simeon)
Scene 3
No 1. Recitative: This Hebrew prisoner (Phanor/Joseph)
No 2. Accompagnato: Ye departed hours (Joseph)
No 3. Air: The peasant tastes the sweets of life (Joseph)
No 4 / Scene 4 No 1. Recitative: But Simeon comes (Joseph/Simeon)
Scene 4
No 2. Air: Impostor! Ah! my foul offence (Simeon)
Scene 5
No 1. Recitative: Whence, Asenath, this grief that hangs upon thee (Joseph/Asenath)
No 2. Air: The silver stream, that all its way (Asenath)
No 3 / Scene 6 No 1. Recitative: Tell me, O tell me thy heart's malady (Asenath/Joseph/Phanor/Judah)
Scene 6
No 2. Air: To keep afar from all offence (Judah)
No 3. Chorus: Thus one, with ev'ry virtue crown'd (Brethren)
Scene 7
No 1. Accompagnato: Once more, O pious Zaphnath, at thy feet (Reuben/Judah)
No 2. Recitative: This kiss, my gracious Lord (Benjamin/Joseph/Judah)
No 3. Air: Thou deign'st to call thy servant 'son' (Benjamin)
No 4. Recitative: Sweet innocence! divine simplicity! (Joseph/Benjamin/Reuben/Judah)
No 5. Chorus: O God, who in thy heav'nly hand (Brethren)
Part 3
Overture. Sinfonia: Allegro
Scene 1
No 1. Recitative: What say'st thou, Phanor? Prove these strangers then (Asenath/Phanor)
No 2. Air: The wanton favours of the great (Phanor)
Scene 2
No 1. Recitative: Whence so disturb'd, my Lord? Let not the crime (Asenath/Joseph)
No 2. Air: Ah Jealousy, thou pelican (Asenath)
No 3. Recitative: O wrong me not! thy Zaphnath never harbour'd (Joseph/Asenath)
No 4. Air: The people's favour, and the smiles of pow'r (Joseph)
No 5. Recitative: Art thou not Zaphnath? Is not Egypt sav'd (Asenath)
No 6. Air: Prophetic raptures swell my breast (Asenath)
No 7 / Scene 3 / Scene 4 No 1. Recitative: They come, – and indignation in their looks (Joseph/Simeon/Phanor/Benjamin)
Scene 4
No 2. Accompagnato: What! without me? Ah, how return in peace! (Benjamin)
No 3. Arioso: O pity! (Benjamin/Joseph)
No 4. Recitative: To prison with him! (Joseph/Simeon/Reuben)
No 5. Arioso: O gracious God (Simeon)
No 6. Chorus: Eternal Monarch of the sky (Brethren)
Scene 5
No 1: But peace, Zaphnath returns (Simeon/Joseph/Judah)
No 2. Air: Thou hadst, my Lord (Simeon)
No 3. Recitative: Give, give him up the lad (Simeon)
No 4. Recitative: I can no longer (Joseph/Brethren)
Scene 6
No 1. Recitative: Whilst the Nile and Memphis (Asenath/Joseph)
No 2. Duet: What's sweeter than the new-blown rose? (Asenath/Joseph)
No 3. Recitative: With songs of ardent gratitude and praise (Joseph)
No 4. Chorus: Alleluia. We will rejoice in thy salvation