Short facts:
I. Teil
01. Overtüre
02. Rezitativ: 'Twas at the royal feast
03. Arie und Chor: Happy, happy pair
04. Rezitativ: Timotheus plac'd on high
05. Rezitative: The song began from Jove
06. Chor: The list'ning crowd
07. Arie: With ravish'd ears
08. Rezitativ: The praise of Bacchus
09. Arie und Chor: Bacchus ever fair and young
10. Rezitativ: Sooth'd with the sound
11. Rezitativ: He chose a mournful muse
12. Arie: He sung Darius, great and good
13. Rezitativ: With downcast looks
14. Chor: Behold Darius great and good
15. Rezitativ: The mighty master smil'd
16. Arioso: Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17. Arie: War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18. Chor: The many rend the skies with loud applause
19. Arie: The prince, unable to conceal his pain
20. Chor: The many rend the skies with loud applause
II. Teil
01. Rezitativ und Chor: Now strike the golden lyre again
02. Arie: Revenge, Timotheus cries
03. Rezitativ: Give vengeance the due
04. Arie: The princes applaud with a furious joy
05. Arie und Chor: Thais led the way
06. Rezitativ: Thus long ago
07. Chor: At last divine Cecilia came
08. Rezitativ: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
09. Chor: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
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Popular compositions
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
- Britten: Billy Budd
- Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Liszt: Piano Sonata B minor
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4 G major
- Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 C major K. 551, "Jupiter"
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Offenbach: Overture from "La vie parisienne"
- Prokofjew: Symphony No. 5 B-flat major op. 100
- Purcell
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks op. 28
- Verdi
Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
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- Franz Schubert
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- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker