Handel: Saul
(2007, original release: 1973)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin, 2007
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 56 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
0028944769623 MWT15221801, 15221801
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony: Allegro (4:35) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony: Larghetto (2:29) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony: Allegro (3:15) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Symphony: Andante larghetto (4:02) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 1. Chorus: How excellent thy Name, O Lord (2:59) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 2. Air: "An infant rais'd by thy command" (1:53) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 3. Trio: Along the Monster Atheist strode (1:06) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 4. Chorus: The Youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord (2:13) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 5. Chorus: How excellent thy Name, O Lord (2:44) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 6. Recitative: He comes - 7. Air: O Godlike Youth! (3:43) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 8. Recitative: Behold, O King, the brave victorious Youth (0:58) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 9. Air: O King, your Favours with Delight I take (2:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 10. Recitative: O early Piety! (0:33) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 11. Air: What abject Thoughts a Prince can have (2:33) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 12. Recitative: Yet think, on whom this Honour you bestow (0:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 13. Air: Birth and Fortune I despise! (5:01) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 14. Recitative: Go on, illustrious Pair! (0:26) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 15. Air: Why yet thy Tide of Blood runs high (2:22) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 16. Recitative: Thou, Merab, first in Birth (0:28) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 17. Air: My Soul rejects the Thought with Scorn (1:31) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 18. Air: See, see, with what a scornful Air (1:09) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 19. Air: Ah! lovely Youth! (1:05) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 20. Symphony (1:11) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 21. Recitative: Already see (0:20) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 22. Chorus: Welcome, welcome mighty King! (1:37) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 23. Accompagnato: What do I hear? (0:22) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 24. Chorus: David his Ten Thousands slew (0:36) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 25. Accompagnato: To him Ten thousands! (0:20) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 26. Air: With Rage I shall burst his Praises to hear! (1:33) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 27. Recitative: Imprudent Women! (0:50) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 28. Air: Fell Rage and black Despair possessed (3:02) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 29. Recitative: This but the smallest Part of Harmony (0:38) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 30. Accompagnato: By thee this Universal Frame (2:45) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 31. Recitative: Rack'd with Infernal Pains (0:22) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 32. Air: O Lord, whose Mercies numberless (3:41) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 33. Symphony (1:51) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 34. Recitative: 'Tis all in vain (0:21) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 35. Air: A Serpent in my Bosom warm'd (2:10) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 36. Recitative: Has he escap'd my Rage? (0:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 37. Air: Capricious Man (4:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 38. Accompagnato: O Filial Piety! (1:58) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 39. Air: No, no cruel Father, no (1:54) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 40. Air: O Lord, whose Providence Ever wakes for their Defence (2:01) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1: 41. Chorus: Preserve him for the Glory of thy Name (2:31) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 42. Chorus: Envy! Eldestborn of Hell! (3:38) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 43. Recitative: Ah! dearest Friend (0:46) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 44. Air: But sooner Jordan's Stream, I swear (2:18) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 45. Recitative: O strange Vicissitude! (0:56) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 46. Air: Such haughty Beauties (2:33) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 47. Recitative: My Father comes (0:18) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 48. Recitative: Hast thou obey'd my Orders (0:41) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 49. Air: Sin not, o King, against the Youth (2:37) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 50. Air: As great Jehovah lives (1:48) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 51. Air: From Cities storm'd, and Battles won (2:44) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 52. Recitative: Appear, my Friend (0:39) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 53. Air: Your Words, O King (1:07) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 54. Recitative: Yes he shall wed my Daughter! (0:36) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 55. Recitative: A Father's Will (0:37) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 56. Duet: O Fairest of ten thousand Fair (3:08) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 57. Chorus: Is there a Man (1:34) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 58. Symphony (3:46) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 59. Recitative: Thy Father is as cruel (0:39) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 60. Duet: At Persecution I can laugh (1:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 61. Recitative: Whom dost thou seek? (0:45) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 62. Air: No, no, let the Guilty tremble (1:46) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 63. Recitative: Mean as he was (1:00) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 64. Air: Author of Peace (3:13) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 65. Symphony (1:12) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 66. Accompagnato: The Time at length is come (0:50) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 67. Recitative: Where is the Son of Jesse (1:11) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 68. Chorus: O fatal Consequence of Rage (5:06) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 69. Accompagnato: Wretch that I am (3:10) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 70. Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a Woman (0:56) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 71. Recitative: With me what would'st thou? (0:39) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 72. Air: Infernal Spirits (2:23) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 73. Accompagnato: Why hast thou forc'd me from the Realms of Peace (3:45) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 74. Symphony (0:39) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 75. Recitative: Whence comest thou? (1:17) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 76. Air: Impious Wretch, of Race accurst (1:47) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 77. March (3:32) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 78. Chorus: Mourn Israel (3:38) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 79. Air: O let it not in Gath be heard (2:55) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 80. Air: From this unhappy Day (3:31) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 81. Air: Brave Jonathan his Bow ne'er drew (2:25) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 82. Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they (0:24) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 83. Air: In sweetest Harmony (5:09) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 84. Solo and Chorus: O fatal Day (4:51) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 85. Recitative: Ye Men of Judah, weep no more (0:36) -- Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 86. Chorus: Gird on thy Sword (5:42)

Additional Credits