Handel: Saul
(1995)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Warner Classics International, 1995
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1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 16 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
MWT11094700, 11094700
LANGUAGE
English
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Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Symphony (4:02) -- Act 1 "How excellent thy name, oh Lord" (Chorus) (2:51) -- Act 1 "An infant rais'd by thy command" (Soprano) (1:36) -- Act 1 "Along the monster atheist strode" (Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass) (1:02) -- Act 1 "The youth inspir'd by Thee, oh Lord" "How excellent thy name, oh Lord" (Chorus) (4:17) -- Act 1 "He comes, he comes!" "Oh godlike youth!" (Michal) (3:04) -- Act 1 "Behold, oh King, the brave, victorious youth" (Abner, Saul, David) "Oh King, your favours with delight I take" (David) (2:47) -- Act 1 "Oh early piety!" (Jonathan) (0:27) -- Act 1 "What abject thoughts a prince can have!" "Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow" (Merab) (2:27) -- Act 1 "Birth and fortune I despise!" (Jonathan) (5:19) -- Act 1 "Thou, Merab, first in birth" (Saul, Merab) "My soul rejects the thought with scorn" (Merab) (1:49) -- Act 1 "See, with what a scornful air" "Ah! lovely youth!" (Michal) (2:04) -- Act 1 Symphony (1:09) -- Act 1 "Already see the daughters" (Michal) (0:15) -- Act 1 "Welcome, welcome, mighty king!" "Saul, who has thy thousands slain" (Chorus) (1:34) -- 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) (2:46) -- Act 1 "Imprudent women!" (Jonathan, Michal) "Fell rage and black despair possess'd" (Michal) (3:41) -- Act 1 "Rack'd with infernal pains" (Abner) (0:19) -- Act 1 "Oh Lord, whose mercies numberless" (David) (3:20) -- Act 1 "'Tis all in vain" (Jonathan) (0:19) -- Act 1 "A serpent, in my bosom warm'd" "Has he escap'd my rage" (Saul) (2:36) -- Act 1 "Capricious man" (Merab) (4:15) -- Act 1 "Oh filial piety!" "No, cruel father, no!" (Jonathan) (3:13) -- Act 1 "Preserve him for the glory of thy name" (Chorus) (2:29) -- Act 2 "Envy! eldest born of hell!" (Chorus) (2:14) -- Act 2 "Ah! dearest friend" "But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear" "My father comes" (Jonathan) (3:23) -- Act 2 "Hast thou obey'd my orders" (Saul, Jonathan) "Sin not, oh king, against the youth" (Jonathan) (1:56) -- Act 2 "As great Jehovah lives" (Saul) (1:16) -- Act 2 "From cities storm'd, and battles won" (Jonathan) (2:09) -- Act 2 "Appear, my friend" (Jonathan, Saul) (0:39) -- Act 2 "Your words, oh king" (David) (1:10) -- Act 2 "Yes, he shall wed my daughter!" (Saul) (0:32) -- Act 2 "A father's will" (Michal) (0:34) -- Act 2 "Oh fairest of ten thousand fair" (Michal, David) (2:48) -- Act 2 "Is there a man" (Chorus) (1:34) -- Act 2 Concerto (2:58) -- Act 2 "Thy father is as cruel" (David) "At persecution I can laugh" (Daivd, Michal) (2:04) -- Act 2 "Whom dost thou seek?" (Michal, Doeg) "No, no, let the guilty tremble" (Michal) (2:33) -- Act 2 "Mean as he was" "Author of peace" (Merab) (3:52) -- Act 2 Symphony (1:16) -- Act 2 "The time at length is come" (Saul) (0:51) -- Act 2 "Where is the son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan) (1:13) -- Act 2 "O fatal consequence of rage" (Chorus) (2:27) -- Act 3 "Wretch that I am!" "'Tis said, here lives a woman" (Saul) (3:40) -- Act 3 "With me what wouldst thou?" (Witch, Saul) "Infernal spirits" (Witch) (2:30) -- Act 3 "Why has thou forc'd me" (Samuel, Saul) (3:16) -- Act 3 Symphony (0:39) -- Act 3 "Whence comst thou?" (David, Amalekite) "Impious wretch, of race accurst!" (David) (3:26) -- Act 3 Dead March (3:07) -- Act 3 "Mourn, Israel" (Chorus) (3:50) -- Act 3 "O let it not in Gath be heard" (Jonathan) "From this unhappy day" (Michal) (6:00) -- Act 3 "Eagles were not so swift as they" (Chorus) (0:23) -- Act 3 "In sweetest harmony" (Merab) "O fatal day!" (David, Chorus) (9:37) -- Act 3 "Ye men of Judah, weep no more!" (High Priest) (0:37) -- Act 3 "Gird on thy sword" (Chorus) (5:45)

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