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Handel Edition Volume 7 - Saul, Alexander's feast, Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Utrecht Te Deum, Apo..

Year

2008

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

6h 32m 14s

Performers

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Publication Information

Warner Classics International

Songs

1 Handel : Saul : Symphony 00:04:02
2 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "How excellent thy name, oh Lord" [Chorus] 00:02:51
3 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "An infant rais'd by thy command" [Soprano] 00:01:36
4 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Along the monster atheist strode" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass] 00:01:02
5 Handel : Saul HWV53 : Act 1 "The youth inspir'd by Thee, oh Lord" "How excellent thy name, oh Lord" [Chorus] 00:04:17
6 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "He comes, he comes!" "Oh godlike youth!" [Michal] 00:03:04
7 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Behold, oh King, the brave, victorious youth" [Abner, Saul, David] "Oh King, your favours with delight I take" [David] 00:02:47
8 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Oh early piety!" [Jonathan] 00:00:27
9 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "What abject thoughts a prince can have!" "Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow" [Merab] 00:02:27
10 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Birth and fortune I despise!" [Jonathan] 00:05:19
11 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Thou, Merab, first in birth" [Saul, Merab] "My soul rejects the thought with scorn" [Merab] 00:01:49
12 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "See, with what a scornful air" "Ah! lovely youth!" [Michal] 00:02:04
13 Handel : Saul : Act 1 Symphony 00:01:09
14 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Already see the daughters" [Michal] 00:00:15
15 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Welcome, welcome, mighty king!" "Saul, who has thy thousands slain" [Chorus] 00:01:34
16 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "What do I hear?" [Saul] "David his ten thousands slew" [Chorus] "To him ten thousands!" [Saul] "With rage I shall burst his praises to hear" [Saul] 00:02:46
17 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Imprudent women!" [Jonathan, Michal] "Fell rage and black despair possess'd" [Michal] 00:03:41
18 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Rack'd with infernal pains" [Abner] 00:00:19
19 Handel : Saul HWV53 : Act 1 "Oh Lord, whose mercies numberless" [David] 00:03:20
20 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "'Tis all in vain" [Jonathan] 00:00:19
21 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "A serpent, in my bosom warm'd" "Has he escap'd my rage" [Saul] 00:02:36
22 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Capricious man" [Merab] 00:04:15
23 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Oh filial piety!" "No, cruel father, no!" [Jonathan] 00:03:13
24 Handel : Saul : Act 1 "Preserve him for the glory of thy name" [Chorus] 00:02:29
25 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Envy! eldest born of hell!" [Chorus] 00:02:14
26 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Ah! dearest friend" "But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" "My father comes" [Jonathan] 00:03:23
27 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Hast thou obey'd my orders" [Saul, Jonathan] "Sin not, oh king, against the youth" [Jonathan] 00:01:56
28 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "As great Jehovah lives" [Saul] 00:01:16
29 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "From cities storm'd, and battles won" [Jonathan] 00:02:09
30 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Appear, my friend" [Jonathan, Saul] 00:00:39
31 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Your words, oh king" [David] 00:01:10
32 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Yes, he shall wed my daughter!" [Saul] 00:00:32
33 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "A father's will" [Michal] 00:00:34
34 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Oh fairest of ten thousand fair" [Michal, David] 00:02:48
35 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Is there a man" [Chorus] 00:01:34
36 Handel : Saul : Act 2 Concerto 00:02:58
37 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Thy father is as cruel" [David] "At persecution I can laugh" [Daivd, Michal] 00:02:04
38 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Whom dost thou seek?" [Michal, Doeg] "No, no, let the guilty tremble" [Michal] 00:02:33
39 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Mean as he was" "Author of peace" [Merab] 00:03:52
40 Handel : Saul : Act 2 Symphony 00:01:16
41 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "The time at length is come" [Saul] 00:00:51
42 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "Where is the son of Jesse?" [Saul, Jonathan] 00:01:13
43 Handel : Saul : Act 2 "O fatal consequence of rage" [Chorus] 00:02:27
44 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "Wretch that I am!" "'Tis said, here lives a woman" [Saul] 00:03:40
45 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "With me what wouldst thou?" [Witch, Saul] "Infernal spirits" [Witch] 00:02:30
46 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "Why has thou forc'd me" [Samuel, Saul] 00:03:16
47 Handel : Saul : Act 3 Symphony 00:00:39
48 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "Whence comst thou?" [David, Amalekite] "Impious wretch, of race accurst!" [David] 00:03:26
49 Handel : Saul HWV53 : Act 3 Dead March 00:03:07
50 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "Mourn, Israel" [Chorus] 00:03:50
51 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "O let it not in Gath be heard" [Jonathan] "From this unhappy day" [Michal] 00:06:00
52 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "Eagles were not so swift as they" [Chorus] 00:00:23
53 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "In sweetest harmony" [Merab] "O fatal day!" [David, Chorus] 00:09:37
54 Handel : Saul : Act 3 "Ye men of Judah, weep no more!" [High Priest] 00:00:37
55 Handel : Saul HWV53 : Act 3 "Gird on thy sword" [Chorus] 00:05:43
56 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Overture 00:06:33
57 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "'Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won by Philip's warlike son" [Tenor] 00:01:03
58 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "Happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair" [Tenor] "Happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair" [Tenor, Soprano] 00:05:27
59 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "Timotheus, plac'd on high amid the tuneful quire" [Tenor] 00:00:26
60 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The song began from Jove" [Soprano] 00:01:02
61 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound" [Chorus] 00:02:09
62 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "With ravish'd ears the monarch hears" [Soprano] 00:03:30
63 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung" [Tenor] 00:00:33
64 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "Bacchus, ever fair and young" [Chorus] "Bacchus' blessings are a treasure" [Bass] 00:04:23
65 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain" [Tenor] 00:00:44
66 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "He chose a mournful Muse" [Soprano] 00:01:15
67 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "He sung Darius, great and good, by too severe a fate fall'n" [Soprano] 00:03:02
68 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" [Soprano] 00:01:01
69 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "Behold Darius, great and good, by too severe a fate fall'n" [Chorus] 00:02:47
70 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The mighty master smil'd to see that Love was in the next degree" [Tenor] 00:00:31
71 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "Softly sung in Lydian measures soon he sooth'd the soul" [Soprano] 00:03:02
72 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" [Tenor] 00:04:58
73 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The many rend the skies with loud applause" [Chorus] 00:03:55
74 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The Prince, unable to conceal his pain" [Soprano] 00:06:35
75 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 "The many rend the skies with loud applause" [Chorus] 00:03:58
76 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Now strike the golden Lyre again!" [Chorus] "Break his bands of sleep asunder... Hark, hark! the horrid sound" [Tenor] 00:02:42
77 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" [Bass] 00:08:04
78 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Give the vengeance due to the valiant crew" [Tenor] 00:01:44
79 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "The princes applaud with a furious joy" [Tenor] 00:02:04
80 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Thais led the way, to light him to his prey" [Chorus] "The princes applaud with a furious joy" [Soprano] 00:05:21
81 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Thus, long ago, ere heaving Bellows learned to blow" [Chorus] "At last divine Cecilia came, inventress of the vocal frame" [Tenor] 00:05:49
82 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" [Tenor, Bass] 00:00:19
83 Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 "Let old Timotheus yield the prize, or both divide the crown" [Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus] 00:03:15
84 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : Overture I "From Harmony, from heavn'ly Harmony" [Tenor] "When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay" [Tenor] 00:08:44
85 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : II "From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony" [Chorus] 00:03:51
86 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : III "What passion cannot Music raise and quell" [Soprano] 00:08:43
87 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : IV "The Trumpet's loud clangor" [Tenor, Chorus] 00:03:52
88 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : V La Marche 00:01:51
89 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : VI "The soft complaining Flute" [Soprano] 00:04:38
90 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : VII "Sharp Violins proclaim" [Tenor] 00:04:33
91 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : VIII "But oh! what art can teach..." [Soprano] 00:04:03
92 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : IX "Orpheus could lead the savage race" [Soprano] 00:01:48
93 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : X "But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r" [Soprano] 00:00:36
94 Handel : Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 : XI "As from the pow'r of sacred lays" [Chorus] 00:07:02
95 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : I "We praise Thee, O God" 00:02:36
96 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : II "All the earth doth worship Thee" 00:01:48
97 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : III "To Thee all angels cry aloud" 00:01:05
98 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : IV "To Thee Cherubin and Seraphin" 00:01:10
99 Te Deum, HWV 278, 'Utrecht': V. The glorious Company (Chorus) 00:03:23
100 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : VI "Thou art the King of Glory" 00:02:05
101 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : VII "When Thou took'st upon Thee..." 00:02:45
102 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : VIII "Thou sittest at the right hand of God" 00:01:10
103 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : IX "We believe that Thou shalt come" 00:02:47
104 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : X "Day by day we magnify Thee" 00:01:19
105 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : XI "And we worship thy name" 00:00:52
106 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : XII "Vouchsafe, O Lord" 00:02:45
107 Handel : Te Deum HWV278, 'Utrecht' : XIII "O Lord, in Thee have I trusted" 00:01:12
108 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "La terra è liberata!" [Apollo] 00:00:54
109 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Pende il ben dell'universo" [Apollo] 00:03:47
110 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Ch'il superbetto Amore" [Apollo] 00:00:34
111 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Spezza l'arco e getta l'armi" [Apollo] 00:02:49
112 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Felicissima quest'alma" [Dafne] 00:04:37
113 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Che voce! Che beltà!" [Apollo, Dafne] 00:01:09
114 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Ardi, ardori" [Dafne] 00:03:59
115 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Che crudel! Ch'importuno" [Apollo, Dafne] 00:00:15
116 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Una guerra ho dentro il seno" [Dafne, Apollo] 00:01:58
117 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Placati al fin, o cara" [Apollo] 00:00:24
118 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Come rosa in su la spina" [Apollo] 00:02:26
119 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Ah, ch'un Dio non dovrebbe" [Dafne] 00:00:26
120 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Come in ciel benigna stella" [Dafne] 00:03:09
121 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Odi la mia ragion! - Sorda son io!" [Apollo, Dafne] 00:00:32
122 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Deh lascia addolcire" [Apollo, Dafne] 00:02:45
123 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Sempre t'adorerò! - Sempre t'aborrirò!" [Apollo, Dafne] 00:00:23
124 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Mie piante correte" [Apollo] 00:03:06
125 Handel : Apollo e Dafne HWV122 : "Cara pianta" [Apollo] 00:03:42
126 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Overture to Act 1 00:02:54
127 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Viva, viva il nostro Alcide!" [Chorus] 00:01:51
128 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Presti omai l'Egizia terra" [Cesare] 00:02:33
129 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Priva son d'ogni conforto" [Cornelia] 00:06:08
130 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Vani sono i lamenti" [Sesto] 00:00:28
131 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Svegliatevi nel core" [Sesto] 00:04:59
132 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Cara speme, questo core" [Sesto] 00:05:44
133 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 1 "Va tacito e nascosto" [Cesare] 00:06:17
134 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 2 "Cessa omai di sospirare!" [Cornelia] 00:04:01
135 Handel : Giulio Cesare HWV17 : Act 2 "Se pietà di me non senti" [Cleopatra] 00:09:43
136 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 3 Sinfonia 00:00:49
137 Handel : Giulio Cesare HWV17 : Act 3 "Da tempeste il legno infranto" [Cleopatra] 00:06:15
138 Handel : Giulio Cesare : Act 3 La Marche 00:03:21
139 Handel : Giulio Cesare HWV17 : Act 3 "Ritorni omai nel nostro core" [Chorus, Cesare, Cleopatra] 00:03:28

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