Détail de "Deborah"


Ouverture: Grave – Allegro – Minuet
Partie I
Scène 1
1. Immortal Lord of earth and skies (chorus)
2. Récitatif : O Barak. favour'd of the skies (Deborah/Barak)
3. Duo : Where do thy ardours raise me? (Barak/Deborah)
4. Forbear thy doubts! to arms! away! (chorus)
5. Récitatif : Since heav'n has thus his will express'd (Barak)
6. For ever to the voice of pray'r (soli/chorus)
7. Récitatif : By that adorable decree (Deborah)
8. O hear thy lowly servants' pray'r (chorus)
9. Récitatif : Ye sons of Israel. cease your fears (Deborah)
10. O blast. with thy tremendous brow (chorus)
11. Récitatif : To whomsoe'er his fate the tyrant owes (Barak)
12. Air : How lovely is the blooming fair (Barak)
Scène 2
1. Récitatif : O Deborah! where'er I turn my eyes (Jael/Deborah)
2. Air : Choirs of angels. all around thee (Deborah)
3. Récitatif : My transports are too great to tell (Jael)
4. Air : To joy he brightens my despair (Jael)
Scène 3
1. Récitatif : Barak. my son. the joyful sound (Abinoam)
2. Air : Awake the ardour of thy breast (Abinoam)
3. Récitatif : I go where heav'n and duty call (Barak)
4. Air : All danger disdaining (Barak)
5. Let thy deeds be glorious (chorus)
Scène 4
Récitatif. My charge is to declare (Herald/Barak/Deborah)
Scène 5
Despair all around them (chorus)
Partie II
Scène 1
1. See, the proud chief advances now (chorus)
2. Récitatif: That here rebellious arms I see (Sisera)
3.Air : At my feet extended low (Sisera)
4. Récitatif : Go frown, barbarian (Deborah)
5. Air : In Jehovah's awful sight (Deborah)
6. Récitatif : Yes, how your God in wonders can excel (Sisera)
7. Air : Whilst you boast the wondrous story (Sisera)
8. Air : Impious mortal, cease to brave (Barak)
9. Récitatif : Behold the nations all around (Chief Priest of Baal)
10. O Baal, monarch of the skies! (chorus of Baal's priests)
11. Récitatif : No more, ye infidels, no more! (Chief Priest of the Israelites)
12. Lord of eternity, who hast in store (chorus of Israelites)
13. Récitatif : By his great name, and his alone (Deborah/Sisera)
14. All your boast will end in woe (soli/chorus)
15. Récitatif : Great prophetess, my soul's on fire (Barak)
16. Air : In the battle, fame pursuing (Barak)
17. Récitatif : Thy ardours warm the winter of my age (Abinoam)
18. Air : Swift inundation of desolation (Abinoam)
19. Récitatif : O Judah, with what joy I see (Israelite woman)
20. Air : No more disconsolate I'll mourn (Israelite woman)
21. Récitatif : Now, Jael, to thy tent retire (Deborah)
22. Air : O the pleasure my soul is possessing (Jael)
23. Récitatif : Barak, we now to battle go (Deborah)
24. Duo : Smiling freedom, lovely guest (Deborah/Barak)
25. The great king of kings will aid us today (chorus)
Partie III
Scène 1
1. A grand miltary symphony : Now the proud insulting foe (chorus of Israelites)
2. Récitatif : The haughty foe whose pride to heav'n did soar (Israelite woman)
3. Air : Now sweetly smiling peace descends (Israelite woman)
Scène 2
1. Récitatif : My pray'rs are heard, the blessings of this day (Abinoam/Barak)
2. Air : Tears, such as tender fathers shed (Abinoam)
Scène 3
1. Récitatif : O Deborah, my fears are o'er (Jael)
2. Doleful tidings, how ye wound (chorus of Baal's priests)
3. Air : Our fears are now forever fled (Israelite woman)
4. Récitatif : I saw the tyrant breathless in her tent (Barak/Jael)
5. Air : Tyrant, now no more we dread thee (Jael)
6. Récitatif : If, Jael, I a right divine (Deborah)
7. Air : The glorious sun shall cease to shed (Deborah)
8. Récitatif : May heav'n, with kind profusion, shed (Barak)
9. Air : Low at her feet he bow'd, he fell (Barak)
10. Récitatif: O great Jehovah! may thy foes (Deborah)
11. Let our glad songs to heav'n ascend (chorus)