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) |