Handel - Joshua / Deborah / Joseph and His Brethren / Alexander Balus [Robert King] (1991-1997)
1991-1997 | 7 CD | EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 2.64 GB
Genre: classical

George Frideric Handel (German: Georg Friedrich Handel; pronounced [?h?nd?l]) (23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music. He received critical musical training in Halle, Hamburg and Italy before settling in London (1712) and becoming a naturalised British subject in 1727.[1] By then he was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition...
Within fifteen years, Handel, a dramatic genius, started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera, but the public came to hear the vocal bravura of the soloists rather than the music. In 1737 he had a physical breakdown, changed direction creatively and addressed the middle class. As Alexanders Feast (1736) was well received, Handel made a transition to English choral works. After his success with Messiah (1742) he never performed an Italian opera again. Handel was only partly successful with his performances of English Oratorio on mythical or biblical themes, but when he arranged a performance of Messiah to benefit the Foundling Hospital (1750) the critique ended. The pathos of Handels oratorio is an ethical one, they are hallowed not by liturgical dignity but by the moral ideals of humanity.[2] Almost blind, and having lived in England for almost fifty years, he died a respected and rich man.
Handel - Joshua (Robert King) [1991]
Tracklisting:
CD1
01. Act I. Introduction
02. Chorus: Ye sons of Israel, ev’ry tribe attend
03. Recitative: Behold, my friends (Joshua, Caleb)
04. Air: O first in wisdom, first in pow’r (Caleb)
05. Recitative: Matrons and virgins (Achsah)
06. Air: Oh! who can tell, oh! Who can her (Achsah)
07. Recitative: Caleb, attend to all I now prescibe (Joshua)
08. Chorus/solo Joshua: To long posterity we here record
09. Accompagnato: So long the memory shall last (Joshua)
10. Air: While Kedrons brook to Jordans stream (Joshua)
11. Recitative: But who is he* (Othniel)
12. Air: Awful pleasing being, say (Othniel)
13. Recitative/ Accompagnato: Joshua, I come (Angel and Joshua)
14. Air: Haste, Israel, haste (Joshua)
15. Chorus: The Lord commands, and Joshua leads
16. Accompagnato: In these blest scenes (Othniel, Achsah)
17. Air: Hark! tis the linnet and the thrush (Achsah)
18. Recitative: O Achsah, form’d for ev’ry chaste delight (Othniel)
19. Duet: Our limpid streams (Achsah, Othniel)
20. Recitative: The trumpet calls (Othniel)
21. Chorus: May all the host of heavn attend him round
22. Act II. Recitative: Tis well; six times the Lord (Joshua)
23. A Solemn March
24. Chorus/solo Joshua: Glory to God!
25. Recitative: The walls are levelld (Caleb)
26. Air: See, the raging flames arise (Caleb)
27. Air: To vanity and earthly Pride (Achsah)
CD2
01. Recitative: Let all the seed of Abrahm now prepare (Joshua)
02. Chorus/solo Joshua: Almighty ruler of the skies
03. Recitative: Joshua, the men dispatchd by thee (Caleb)
04. Chorus: How soon our tow’ring hopes are cross’d!
05. Recitative: Whence this dejection* (Joshua)
06. Air/Chorus: With redoubled rage return (Joshua)
07. Recitative: Now give the army breath (Othniel)
08. Air: Heroes when with glory burning (Othniel)
09. Recitative: Indulgent heavn hath heard (Achsah)
10. Air: As cheers the sun the tender flowr (Achsah)
11. Recitative: Sure I’m deceiv’d (Caleb, Othniel)
12. Air: Nations, who in future story (Othniel)
13. Recitative: Brethren and friends, what joy (Joshua, Caleb)
14. Chorus/solo Joshua: Oh! thou bright orb
15. Act III. Chorus: Hail! mighty Joshua, hail! Thy name
16. Air: Happy, Oh, thrice happy we (Achsah)
17. Recitative: Caleb, for holy Eleazer send (Joshua, Caleb)
18. Air: Shall I in Mamres fertile plain (Caleb)
19. Recitative: O Caleb, feard by foes (Othniel)
20. Air: Place danger around me (Othniel)
21. Chorus: Father of Mercy, hear the pray’r we make
22. Recitative: In bloom of youth (Joshua)
23. Chorus: See the conquring hero comes!
24. Recitative: Welcome! My son(Caleb, Othniel, Achsah)
25. Air: Oh! had I Jubals lyre (Achsah)
26. Recitative: While life shall last, each moment (Othniel)
27. Duet: O peerless maid (Othniel, Achsah)
28. Recitative: While lawless tyrants, with ambition blind (Caleb)
29. Chorus: The great Jehovah is our awful theme
Handel - Deborah (Robert King) [1993]
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Part I. Overture: Grave – Allegro – Minuet
2. Scene 1. Chorus: Immortal Lord of earth and skies
3. Recitative: O Barak, favourd of the skies (Deborah, Barak)
4. Duet: Where do thy ardours raise me* (Barak, Deborah)
5. Chorus: Forbear thy doubts! to arms! away!
6. Recitative: Since heavn has thus his will expressd (Barak)
7. Soli & Chorus: For ever to the voice of prayr
8. Recitative: By that adorable decree (Deborah)
9. Chorus: O hear thy lowly servants prayr
10. Recitative: Ye sons of Israel, cease your fears (Deborah)
11. Chorus: O blast, with thy tremendous brow
12. Recitative: To whomsoeer his fate the tyrant owes (Barak)
13. Air: How lovely is the blooming fair (Barak)
14. Scene 2. Recitative: O Deborah! whereer I turn my eyes (Jael, Deborah)
15. Air: Choirs of angels, all around thee (Deborah)
16. Recitative: My transports are too great to tell (Jael)
17. Air: To joy he brightens my despair (Jael)
18. Scene 3. Recitative: Barak, my son, the joyful sound (Abinoam)
19. Air: Awake the ardour of thy breast (Abinoam)
20. Recitative: I go where heavn and duty call (Barak)
21. Air: All danger disdaining (Barak)
22. Chorus: Let thy deeds be glorious
23. Scene 4 & Scene 5. Recitative: My chrage is to declare (Herald, Barak, Deborah)
24. Chorus: Despair all around them
25. Part II. Scene 1. Chorus: See, the proud chief advances now
26. Recitative: That here rebellious arms I see (Sisera)
27. Air: At my feet extended low (Sisera)
28. Recitative: Go frown, barbarian (Deborah)
29. Air: In Jehovahs awful sight (Deborah)
30. Recitative: Yes, how your God in wonders can excel (Sisera)
31. Air: Whilst you boast the wondrous story (Sisera)
32. Air: Impious mortal, cease to brave (Barak)
CD2
1. Recitative: Behold the nations all around (Chief Priest of Baal)
2. Chorus of Baals priests: O Baal, Monarch of the skies!
3. Recitative: No more, ye infidels, no more! (Chief Priest of the Israelites)
4. Chorus of Israelites: Lord of Eternity, who hast in store
5. Recitative: By His great name, and his alone (Deborah, Sisera)
6. Soli & Chorus: All your boast will end in woe
7. Recitative: Great Prophetess, my souls on fire (Barak)
8. Air: In the battle, fame pursuing (Barak)
9. Recitative: Thy ardours warm the winter of my age (Abinoam)
10. Air: Swift inundation of desolation (Abinoam)
11. Recitative: O Judah, with what joy I see (Israelite woman)
12. Air: No more disconsolate Ill mourn (Israelite woman)
13. Recitative: Now, Jael, to thy tent retire (Deborah)
14. Air: O the pleasure my soul is possessing (Jael)
15. Recitative: Barak, we now to battle go (Deborah)
16. Duet: Smiling freedom, lovely guest (Deborah, Barak)
17. Chorus: The great King of Kings will aid us today
18. Part III. Scene 1. A grand miltary symphony
19. Recitative: The haughty foe whose pride (Israelite woman)
20. Air: Now sweetly smiling peace descends (Israelite woman)
21. Scene 2. Recitative: My prayrs are heard, the blessings of this day (Abinoam, Barak)
22. Air: Tears, such as tender fathers shed (Abinoam)
23. Scene 3. Recitative: O deborah, my fears are oer (Jael)
24. Chorus of Baals priests: Doleful tidings, how ye wound
25. Air: Our fears are now forever fled (Israelite woman)
26. Recitative: I saw the tyrant breathless in her tent (Barak, Jael)
27. Air: Tyrant, now no more we dread thee (Jael)
28. Recitative: If, Jael, I a right divine (Deborah)
29. Air: The glorious sun shall cease to shed (Deborah)
30. Recitative: May Heavn, with kind profusion, shed (Barak)
31. Air: Low at her feet he bowd, he fell (Barak)
32. Recitative: O great Jehovah! may thy foes (Deborah)
33. Chorus: Let our glad songs to heavn ascend
Handel - Joseph and His Brethren (Robert King) [1996]
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Part I. Overture: Andante – Larghetto – Allegro – Menuet
2. Air: Be firm, my soul! nor faint beneath (Joseph)
3. Recitative: Joseph, thy fame has reachd great Pharaohs ear (Phanor, Joseph)
4. Air: Come, divine inspirer, come (Joseph)
5. Recitative: Pardon, that I so long forgot thee, Joseph! (Phanor, Joseph)
6. Air: Ingratitudes the queen of crimes (Phanor)
7. Recitative: Thus, stranger, I have laid my troubled thoughts (Pharaoh, Joseph)
8. Chorus: O God of Joseph, gracious shed thy spirit on thy servants head (Egyptians)
9. Accompagnato: Pharaoh, thy dreams are one (Joseph)
10. Recitative: Divine interpreter! What oracle (Pharaoh, Joseph)
11. Air: O lovely youth, with wisdom crownd (Asenath)
12. Recitative: Wear, worthy man, this Royal signet wear (Pharaoh)
13. Chorus: Joyful sounds, melodious strain! (Egyptians)
14. Recitative: Whence this unwonted ardourin my breast* (Asenath)
15. Air: I feel a spreading flame within my veins (Asenath)
16. Recitative: Fair Asenath (Joseph, Pharaoh, Potiphera, Asenath)
17. Duet: Celestial virgin! Godlike youth! (Joseph, Asenath)
18. Recitative: Now, Potiphera, instant to the temple (Pharaoh)
19. Grand march during the procession
20. Recitative: Tis done, – the sacred knot is tied (High Priest)
21. Chorus: Immortal pleasures crown this pair (Egyptians)
22. Recitative: Glorious and happy is thy lot, O Zaphnath! (Pharaoh)
23. Air: Since the race of time begun (Pharaoh)
24. Chorus: Swift our numbers, swiftly roll (Egyptians)
CD2
1. Part II. Chorus: Hail, thou youth, by Heaven belovd! (Egyptians)
2. Recitative: How vaast a theme has Egypt for applause! (Phanor, Asenath)
3. Air: Our fruits, whilst yet in blowwom, die (Asenath)
4. Recitative: Hes Egypts common parent, gives her bread (Phanor)
5. Chorus: Blest be the man by powr unstaind (Egyptians)
6. Recitative: Phanor, we mention not his highest glory! (Asenath, Phanor)
7. Air: Together, lovely innocents, grow up (Asenath)
8. Recitative: He then is silent, then again exclaims (Asenath)
9. Accompagnato: Where are these Brethren … why this base delay* (Simeon)
10. Air: Remorse, confusion, horror, fear (Simeon)
11. Recitative: This Hebrew prisoner (Phanor, Joseph)
12. Accompagnato: Ye departed hours (Joseph)
13. Air: The peasant tastes the sweets of life (Joseph)
14. Recitative: But Simeon comes (Joseph, Simeon)
15. Air: Impostor! Ah! my foul offence (Simeon)
16. Recitative: Whence, Asenath, this grief* (Joseph)
17. Air: The silver stream, that all its way (Asenath)
18. Recitative: Tell me, O tell me thy hearts malady (Asenath, Joseph, Phanor, Judah)
19. Air: To keep afar from all offence (Judah)
20. Chorus: Thus one, with evry virtue crownd (Brethren)
21. Accompagnato: Once more, O pious Zaphnath, at thy feet (Reuben, Judah)
22. Recitative: This kiss, my gracious Lord (Benjamin, Joseph, Judah)
23. Air: Thou deignst to call thy servant son (Benjamin)
24. Recitative: Sweet innocence! divine simplicity! (Joseph, Benjamin, Reuben, Judah)
25. Chorus: O God, who in thy heavnly hand (Brethren)
CD3
1. Part III. Sinfonia: Allegro
2. Recitative: What sayst thou, Phanor* (Asenath, Phanor)
3. Air: The wanton favours of the great (Phanor)
4. Recitative: Whence so disturbd, my Lord* (Asenath, Joseph)
5. Air: Ah Jealousy, thou pelican (Asenath)
6. Recitative: O wrong me not! thy Zaphnath never harbourd (Joseph, Asenath)
7. Air: The peoples favour, and the smiles (Joseph)
8. Recitative: Art thou not Zaphnath* Is not Egypt savd (Asenath)
9. Air: Prophetic raptures swell my breast (Asenath)
10. Recitative: They come, – and indignation (Joseph, Simeon, Phanor, Benjamin)
11. Accompagnato: What! without me* Ah, how return! (Benjamin)
12. Arioso: O pity! (Benjamin, Joseph)
13. Recitative: To prison with him! (Joseph, Simeon, Reuben)
14. Arioso: O gracious God (Simeon)
15. Chorus: Eternal Monarch of the sky (Brethren)
16. Recitative: But peace, Zaphnath returns (Simeon, Joseph, Judah)
17. Air: Thou hadst, my Lord, a father once (Simeon)
18. Recitative: Give, give him up the lad (Simeon)
19. Recitative: I can no longer (Joseph, Brethren)
20. Recitative: While the Nile and Memphis (Asenath, Joseph)
21. Duet: Whats sweeter than the new-blown rose (Asenath, Joseph)
22. Recitative: With songs of ardent gratitude and praise (Joseph)
23. Chorus: Alleluia. We will rejoice in thy salvation
Handel - Alexander Balus (Robert King) [1997]
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. ACT I Ouverture: [Grave] – Allegro
2. Chorus ASIATES: Flushd with conquest, fird by Mithra
3. Recitative ALEXANDER: Thus far, ye glorious partners
4. Air JONATHAN: Great Author of this harmony
5. Flourish of trumpets
6. Recitative PTOLOMEE: And thus let happy Egypts king
7. Air PTOLOMEE: Thrice happy the monarch
8. Recitative CLEOPATRA: Congratulation to our fathers friend
9. Air CLEOPATRA: Hark! hark! he strikes the golden lyre
10. Recitative ALEXANDER: Be it my chief ambition
11. Air ALEXANDER: Fair virtue shall charm me
12. Chorus ASIATES: Ye happy nations round
13. Recitative ALEXANDER: My Jonathan
14. Air ALEXANDER: Oh, what resistless charms are givn
15. Air CLEOPATRA: Subtle love, with fancy viewing
16. Recitative CLEOPATRA: Aspasia, I know not what to call
17. Air CLEOPATRA: How happy should we mortals prove
18. Recitative ASPASIA: Check not the pleasing accents
19. Air ASPASIA: So shall the sweet attractive smile
20. Recitative CLEOPATRA: How blissful state!
21. Duet CLEOPATRA & ASPASIA: O what pleasures
22. Recitative JONATHAN: Why hangs this heavy gloom
23. Air ALEXANDER: Heroes may boast their mighty deed
24. Recitative JONATHAN: Ye sons of Judah, with high festival
25. Air JONATHAN: Great God, from whom all blessings
26. ACT II. Air ALEXANDER: Kind hope, thou universal friend
27. Recitative JONATHAN: Long, long and happy live the king!
28. Air ALEXANDER: O Mithra, with thy brightest beams
29. Recitative SYCOPHANT COURTIER: Stay, my dread sovereign
30. Air ALEXANDER: Mighty love now calls to arm
31. Air JONATHAN: Hateful man! thy slandrous tongue
CD2
1. Chorus ISRAELITES: O calumny, on virtue waiting
2. Recitative CLEOPATRA: Ah! whence these dire forebodings?
3. Air CLEOPATRA: Tossed from thought to thought I rove
4. Recitative ASPASIA: Give to the winds, fair princess
5. Air ASPASIA: Love, glory, ambition, whateer
6. Recitative PTOLOMEE: Thus far my wishes thrive
7. Air PTOLOMEE: Virtue, thou ideal name
8. Accompagnato JONATHAN: Ye happy people
9. Soli with Chorus: Triumph Hymen in the pair
10. Recitative ALEXANDER: Glad time, at length
11. Duet ALEXANDER & CLEOPATRA: Hail wedded love
12. Chorus ASIATES: Hymen, fair Uranias son
13. ACT III. Introduction: Sinfonia
14. Recitative CLEOPATRA: Tis true, instinctive nature
15. Air CLEOPATRA: Here amid the shady woods
16. Recitative ALEXANDER: Ah! was it not my Cleopatras voice?
17. Air ALEXANDER: Powrful guardians of all nature
18. Recitative JONATHAN: Treachry, O king
19. Air ALEXANDER: Fury, with red sparkling eyes
20. Recitative ASPASIA: Gods! can there be
21. Air ASPASIA: Strange reverse of human fate
22. Recitative JONATHAN: May he return with laureld victory
23. Air JONATHAN: To God who made the radiant sun
24. Chorus ISRAELITES: Sun, moon, and stars
25. Recitative PTOLOMEE: Yes he was false, my daughter
26. Accompagnato PTOLOMEE: Ungrateful child
27. Air PTOLOMEE: O sword, and thou, all-daring hand
28. Accompagnato CLEOPATRA: Shall Cleopatra ever smile again?
29. Recitative MESSENGER: Ungrateful tidings to the royal ear
30. Air CLEOPATRA: O take me from this hateful light
31. Recitative SECOND MESSENGER: Forgive, O queen, the messenger of ill!
32. Accompagnato CLEOPATRA: Calm thou my soul
33. Air CLEOPATRA: Convey me to some peaceful shore
34. Recitative JONATHAN: Mysterious are thy ways, O Providence!
35. Chorus JONATHAN & ISRAELITES: Ye servants

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