Handel: Oratorios: Messiah, Saul, Alexander's Feast, Belshazzar, Ode y
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Handel: Oratorios (Messiah, Saul, Alexander's Feast, Belshazzar, Ode on St Cecilia's Day)(9CD) These five splendid works for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra were composed by Handel in the 1730s and 1740s. Treating both sacred and secular themes, they are inspired by the same dramatic genius that made Handel a master of opera. Conducting a dazzling array of soloists and Concentus Musicus Wien, the groundbreaking ensemble he established in the early 1950s, Nikolaus Harnoncourt unfolds their narratives with his customary flair, precision and immediacy.
21 Dead March - Elegy on the Death of Saul and Jonathan 3:02
22 Mourn, Israel, Mourn 3:49
23 Oh Let It Not in Gath Be Heard - from This Unhappy Day No More, Ye Gilboan Hills 5:59
24 Eagles Were Not So Wift As They 0:23
25 In Sweetest Harmony They Liv'd - Oh Fataly Day! 9:37
26 Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More 0:37
27 Gird on Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might 5:42
- Disc 5 -
1 Ouvertüre 6:30
2 'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia Won By Philip's Warlike Son 1:02
3 Happy Pair! Non But the Brave Deserves the Fairb 5:26
4 Timotheus, Plac'd on High Amid the Tuenful Quire 0:26
5 The Song Began from Jove 1:01
6 The List'ning Crowd Admire the Lofty Sound 2:09
7 With Ravish'd Ears the Monarch Hears 3:29
8 The Praise of Bacchus Then the Sweet Musician Sung 0:33
9 Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young - Bacchus' Blessings Are a Treasure 4:23
10 Sooth'd with the Sound, the King Grew Vain 0:43
11 He Chose a Mournful Muse 1:14
12 He Sung Darius, Great and Good, By Too Severe a Fate Fall'n 3:02
13 With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate 1:00
14 Behold Darius, Great and Good, By Too Severe a Fate Fall'n 2:46
15 The Mighty Master Smil'd to See That Love Was in the Next Degree 0:31
16 Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures Soon He Sooth'd the Soul 3:02
17 Was, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble 4:58
18 The Many Rend the Skieks with Loud Apllause 3:55
19 The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain 6:35
20 The Many Rend the Skies with Loud Apllause 3:56
- Disc 6 -
1 Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again! - Break His Bands of Sleep Asunder - Hark, Hark! the Horrid Sound 2:39
2 Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries 8:03
3 Give the Vengeance Due to the Vailant Crew 1:44
4 The Princes Apllaud with a Furious Joy 2:04
5 Thai Led the Way, to Light Him to His Prey - the Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy 5:20
6 Thus, Long Ago, Ere Heaving Bellow Learned to Blow - at Last Divine Cecilia Came, Inventress of the
7 Vocal Frame 5:48
8 Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize 0:18
9 Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize, or Both Divide the Crown 3:24
10 Overture - from Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony - When Nature Underneath a Heap of Jarring Atoms Lay 8:42
11 From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony 3:49
12 What Passion Cannot Music Raise and Quell! 8:36
13 The Trumpet's Oud Clagor Excites Us to Arms 3:54
14 March 1:49
15 The Soft Complaining Flue in Dying Notes 4:38
16 Sharp Violins Proclaim Their Jealous Pang and Desperation 4:29
17 But Oh! What Art Can Teach - the Sacred Organ's Praise! 4:03
18 Orpheus Could Lead the Savage Race 1:48
19 But Gright Cecilia Rais'd the Wonder High'r 0:35
20 As from the Pow'r of Sacred Lays the Spheres Began to Move 7:01
- Disc 7 -
1 Overture 4:31
2 Vain, Fluctuating State of Human Empire! (1. Teil) 5:05
3 Thou, God Most High 4:06
4 The Fate of Babylan, I Fear, Is Nigh - O Much Belov'd God and Man! Say 1:19
5 Lament Not Hus, O Queen, in Vain! 4:49
6 Behold, By Persia's Hero Made in Ample from 2:57
7 Well May They Laugh, from Meagre Famine Safe - Oh Memory! Still Bitter to My Soul! 1:28
8 Oppress'd with Never-Ceasing Grief 3:09
9 Dry Those Anavailing Tears 2:37
10 Be Comforted - Mehtought, As on the Bank of Deep Euphrates - Now Tell Me, Gobrias 4:07
11 Behold the Monstrous Human Beast 3:15
12 Can You Then Think It Strange - Great God! Who, Yet But Darkly Known - M Friends, Be Confident, and
13 Boldly Enter... 4:49
14 All Empires Upon God Depend 3:40
15 Oh Sacred Oracles of Thuth! 5:17
16 Rejoice, My Countrymen: The Time Draws Near - for Long Ago, Wohle Ages Ere This Cyrus Was Born - Thus
17 Saith the Lord... 3:07
18 Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns 4:34
- Disc 8 -
1 Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign! 4:54
2 For You, My Friends, the Nobles of My Court 1:01
3 The Leafy Honours of the Field 8:17
4 It Is the Custom, I May Say, the Law 1:54
5 Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command 2:59
6 They Tell You True 1:36
7 Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forbear! 6:42
8 By Slow Degrees the Wrath of God 4:44
9 See, from His Post Euphrates Flies! - Why, Faithless River, Dost Thou Leave Thy Charge - Euphrates
10 Hath... (2. Teil) 6:23
11 You See, My Friends, a Path Into the City Lies Open - Amaz'd to Find the Foe So Near 5:25
12 To Arms, to Arms! No More Delay! 0:30
13 Ye Tutelar Gods of Our Empire, Look Down 2:55
14 Let the Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess - Where Is the God of Judah's Boasted Pow'r? - Help, Help the
15 King! - O Dire... 5:45
16 Symphony - Ye Sages! Welcome Always to Your King - Alas! Too Hard a Task the King Imposes 2:41
17 Oh Misery! Oh Terror! Hopeless Grief! 1:32
- Disc 9 -
1 Oh King, Live for Ever! - Art Thou That Daniel of the Jewish Captives? 1:44
2 No! to Thyself Thy Trifles Be - Yet to Obey His Dread Command - Thou, O King, Hast Lifted Up Thyself
3 Against the... 4:41
4 Reard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears 6:23
5 Oh God of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide! - You, Gobrias, Lead Directly to the Palace 5:28
6 Oh Glorious Prince! 4:54
7 Alternate Hopes and Fears Distract My Mind (3. Teil) 4:23
8 Fein Would I Hope - Is There Not Room for Hope? - Can the Black Aethiop Change His Skin? 2:19
9 My Hopes Revive, Here Arioch Comes 2:14
10 Bel Boweth Down! 1:35
11 I Thank Thee, Sesach - Martial Symphony 2:14
12 To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks Are Due 2:14
13 Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias, to Find Out the Queen - Destructive War, Thy Limits Know 3:01
14 Great Victor, at Your Feet I Bow 5:15
15 Say, Venerable Prophet, Is There Aught in Cyru's Pow'r 0:48
16 Tell It Out Among the Heathen, That the Lord Is King - Yes, I Will Build Thy City, God of Israel 3:31
17 I Will Magnify Thee, Oh God My King! 5:34
Handel: Oratorios (Messiah, Saul, Alexander's Feast, Belshazzar, Ode on St Cecilia's Day)(9CD) These five splendid works for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra were composed by Handel in the 1730s and 1740s. Treating both sacred and secular themes, they are inspired by the same dramatic genius that made Handel a master of opera. Conducting a dazzling array of soloists and Concentus Musicus Wien, the groundbreaking ensemble he established in the early 1950s, Nikolaus Harnoncourt unfolds their narratives with his customary flair, precision and immediacy.
