Solomon, HWV 67
Work Information
This music is based on the biblical stories, which describes the Queen of Sheba comes to Jerusalem to visit the King Solomon with her attendants and many treasures. The warm welcome and entertainment of the King Solomon widen her horizon. The music shows an exciting and pleasant atmosphere.
Composer
Track
- Air: Beneath the vine (First Harlot)
- Air: Bless'd the day (Queen)
- Air: Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba)
- Air: Golden columns, fair and bright (Zadok)
- Air: How green our fertile pastures look! (Solomon)
- Air: Sacred raptures cheer my breast (Zadok)
- Air: What though I trace each herb and flower (Solomon)
- Air: Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba)
- Air: With thee the unsheltered moor I'd tread (Queen)
- Air and Chorus: Now a diff'rent measure try (Solomon, Israelites)
- Aria: Bless'd the day… (Solomon's Queen)
- Aria: With thee th'unsheltered moor… (Solomon's Queen)
- Duet: Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon, Queen)
- From the East unto the West (Chorus of Israelites)
- From the censer curling rise (Chorus)
- May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours (Chorus)
- Overture
- Part I Your harps and cymbals sound (Chorus of Priests)
- Part III Air Evry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba)
- Part III Recitative From Arabias spicy shores (Queen of Sheba Solomon)
- Part I: Air: Sacred raptures cheer my breast (Zadok)
- Part I: Air: What though I trace each herb and flower (Solomon)
- Part I: Duet: Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon, Queen)
- Part I: May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours (Chorus)
- Part I: Recitative: Blest be the Lord (Solomon)
- Part I: Recitative: Imperial Solomon, thy prayers are heard (Zadok)
- Part I: Recitative: My blooming fair, come, come away (Solomon)
- Part I: Recitative: Thou fair inhabitant of Nile (Solomon, Queen)
- Part I: Recitative: When thou art absent from my sight (Queen)
- Part I: With pious heart and holy tongue (Chorus of Priests)
- Part II: Air: Beneath the vine (First Harlot)
- Part II: From the East unto the West (Chorus of Israelites)
- Part II: From the censer curling rise (Chorus)
- Part II: Sinfonia
- Part III: Air: Golden columns, fair and bright (Zadok)
- Part III: Air: How green our fertile pastures look! (Solomon)
- Part III: Air: Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba)
- Part III: Praise the Lord (Chorus)
- Part III: Recitative: Adieu, fair Queen (Solomon)
- Part III: Recitative: Gold now is common on our happy shore (Solomon)
- Part III: Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell (Queen of Sheba)
- Part III: Recitative: Next the tortured soul release (Solomon)
- Part III: Recitative: Sweep, sweep the string to soothe the royal fair (Solomon)
- Part III: Recitative: Then, at once, from rage remove (Solomon, Chorus of Israelites)
- Part III: Recitative: Thrice happy King! (Zadok)
- Part III: Solo and Chorus: Music, spread thy voice around (Solomon, Israelites)
- Part III: Thus rolling surges rise (Chorus)
- Praise the Lord (Chorus)
- Recitative: Adieu, fair Queen (Solomon)
- Recitative: Almighty Power, who rul'st the earth and skies (Solomon)
- Recitative: Blest be the Lord (Solomon)
- Recitative: From Arabia's spicy shores (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
- Recitative: From Arabia's spicy shores… - Aria: Ev'ry sight these eyes behold… (Queen of Sheba)
- Recitative: Gold now is common on our happy shore (Solomon)
- Recitative: Imperial Solomon, thy prayers are heard (Zadok)
- Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell (Queen of Sheba)
- Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell… - Aria: Will the sun forget to streak… (Queen of Sheba)
- Recitative: My blooming fair, come, come away (Solomon)
- Recitative: Next the tortured soul release (Solomon)
- Recitative: Sweep, sweep the string to soothe the royal fair (Solomon)
- Recitative: Then, at once, from rage remove (Solomon, Chorus of Israelites)
- Recitative: Thou fair inhabitant of Nile (Solomon, Queen)
- Recitative: Thrice happy King! (Zadok)
- Recitative: Thy harmony's divine, great King! (Queen of Sheba)
- Recitative: When thou art absent from my sight (Queen)
- Sinfonia
- Solo and Chorus: Music, spread thy voice around (Solomon, Israelites)
- Swell the full chorus to Solomon's praise (Chorus of Priests)
- The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba
- Thus rolling surges rise (Chorus)
- With pious heart and holy tongue (Chorus of Priests)
- Your harps and cymbals sound (Chorus of Priests)
