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Title: Handel: Saul; Choice of Hercules; Alexander\'s Feast
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Main Performer: Charles Daniels (Tenor); Christopher Gillett (Tenor); Gareth Morrell (Baritone); Margaret Marshall (Soprano); Martyn Hill (Tenor)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s): King's College Choir, Cambridge; English Chamber Orchestra; Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orchestra
Date of Release: 13/01/2003
Recomended Retail Price: 18.99 GBP
Label / Distributor: Virgin Black Box / EMI
Pieces in Set: 5
Running Time: 5 hours 14 minutes
Genre(s): Vocal and choral
Stereo: Stereo
SPAR Code: ADD
EAN: 724356211827
Catalogue Number: 562118
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Work 1
Work Title: Saul, HWV53
Excerpt(s): 1. Overture; PART 1 - How excellent Thy name
73. Infernal spirits
3. Along the monster atheist strode
4. The youth inspir'd by Thee
5. How excellent Thy name
6. He comes, he comes!
7. Oh god-like youth!
8. Behold, o king
9. O king, your favours
10. O early piety!
11. What abject thoughts
12. Yet think, on whom this honour
13. Birth and fortune I despise!
14. Go on, illustrious pair!
15. While yet thy tide of blood
16. Thou, Merab, first in birth
17. My soul rejects the thought
18. See, with what a scornful air
19. Ah! lovely youth!
75. Sinfonia
21. Already see the daughters of the land
22. Welcome, welcome, mighty king!
23. What do I hear?
24. David his ten thousands slew
25. To him ten thousands
26. With rage I shall burst
27. Imprudent women!
28. Fell rage and black despair
29. This but the smallest part
30. By thee this universal frame
31. Rack'dwith infernal pains
32. O Lord, whose mercies
34. 'T is all in vain
35. A serpent, in my bosom warm'd
36. Has he escap'd my rage?
37. Capricious man, in humour lost
38. O filial piety! o sacred friendship
39. No, cruel father, no!
40. O Lord, whose providence
41. Preserve him
42. PART 2 - Envy! eldest born of Hell!
43. Ah! dearest friend
44. But sooner Jordan's stream
45. O strange vicissitude!
46. Such haughty beauties
47. My father comes
48. Hast thou ob'yed my orders?
49. Sin not, o king
50. As great Jehovah lives
51. From cities storm'd
52. Appear, my friend
53. Your words, o king
54. Yes, he shall wed
55. A father's will
56. O fairest of ten thousand fair
57. Is there a man
59. Allegro
60. Thy father is as cruel
61. At persecution I can laugh
62. Whom dost thou seek?
63. No, no, let the guilty tremble
64. Mean as he was
65. Author of peace
66. Symphony
67. The time at length is come
68. Where is the son of Jesse?
69. O fatal consequence
70. PART 3 - Wretch that I am!
71. 'T is said, here lives a woman
72. With me what woulds't thou?
74. Why hast thou forc'd me
76. Whence comest thou?
77. Impious wretch
78. Dead March
79. Mourn, Israel, mourn
80. O let it not in Gath
81. From this unhappy day
82. Brave Jonathan
83. Eagles were not so swift
84. In sweetest harmony
85. O fatal day!
86. Ye men of Judah
87. Gird on thy sword
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1738
Conductor: Sir Philip Ledger
Orchestra / Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra / Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Main Performer: Charles Daniels (Tenor), Christopher Gillett (Tenor), Gareth Morrell (Baritone), Margaret Marshall (Soprano), Martyn Hill (Tenor), Matthew Best (Bass), Paul Esswood (Alto), Robert Tear (Tenor), Sally Burgess (Mezzo soprano), Thomas Allen (Baritone)
Opera Part(s): Charles Daniels, Christopher Gillett, Gareth Morrell, Margaret Marshall, Martyn Hill, Matthew Best, Paul Esswood, Robert Tear, Sally Burgess, Thomas Allen
Work 2
Work Title: Alexander's Feast, HWV75
Excerpt(s): 1. Overture
2. Andante
3. PART 1 - 'Twas at the Royal Feast
4. Happy pair!
5. Timotheus, plac'd on high
6. The song began from Jove
7. The list'ning crowd
8. With ravish'd ears
9. The praise of Bacchus
10. Bacchus, ever fair and young
11. Sooth'd with the sound
12. He chose a mournful Muse
13. He sung Darius, great and good
14. With downcast looks
15. Behold Darius, great and good
16. The mighty master smil'd
17. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures
18. War, he sung, is toil and trouble
19. The many rend the skies
20. The Prince, unable to conceal his pain
21. The many rend the skies (da capo)
22. PART 2 - Now strike the golden Lyre again!
23. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries
24. Give the vengeance due
25. The princes applaud
26. Thais led the way
27. Thus, long ago
28. At last divine Cecilia came
29. Let old Timotheus yield the prize (recit); Let old Timotheus yield the prize (chorus)
30. Your voices tune
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1736
Conductor: Sir Philip Ledger
Orchestra / Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra / Ensemble: King's College Choir, Cambridge
Main Performer: Helen Donath (Soprano), Robert Tear (Tenor), Sally Burgess (Mezzo soprano), Thomas Allen (Baritone)
Opera Part(s): Helen Donath, Robert Tear, Sally Burgess, Thomas Allen
Work 3
Work Title: (The) Choice of Hercules, HWV69
Excerpt(s): 1. There the brisk sparkling Nectar
2. Yet can I hear that dulcet lay
3. Lead goddess, lead the way
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1743
Conductor: Sir Philip Ledger
Orchestra / Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orchestra
Main Performer: Heather Harper (Soprano), Helen Watts (Contralto (Female alto)), James Bowman (Alto), Robert Tear (Tenor)
Opera Part(s): Heather Harper, Helen Watts, James Bowman, Robert Tear
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