Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar and Jephtha
Felicity Palmer, Maureen Lehane, Robert Tear, Paul Esswood, Peter van der Bilt & Thomas Sunnegårdh, Werner Hollweg, Thomas Thomaschke, Glenys Linos, Elizabeth Gale, Paul Esswood & Gabriele Sima
Stockholmer Kammerchor & Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus...
The particular strength of the Teldec reissue is its splendid cast, all of whom are technically outstanding, invest their every word with meaning and make recitatives fully alive. The titlerole...
Handel Edition Volume 6 - Belshazzar and Jephtha
Felicity Palmer, Maureen Lehane, Robert Tear, Paul Esswood, Peter van der Bilt & Thomas Sunnegårdh, Werner Hollweg, Thomas Thomaschke, Glenys Linos, Elizabeth Gale, Paul Esswood & Gabriele Sima
Stockholmer Kammerchor & Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus...
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The particular strength of the Teldec reissue is its splendid cast, all of whom are technically outstanding, invest their every word with meaning and make recitatives fully alive. The titlerole...
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Contents and tracklist
- Felicity Palmer (soprano), Paul Esswood (countertenor), Maureen Lehane (mezzo-soprano), Peter van der Bilt (bass), Robert Tear (tenor), Staffan Sandlund (bass), Thomas Sunnegårdh (tenor)
- Concentus musicus Wien, Stockholm Chamber Choir
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Act 1 "Be comforted" [Cyrus] "Methought, as on the bank" [Cyrus] "Now tell me, Gobrias" [Cyrus, Gobrias]
Track length4:07
Act 1 "Can you then think" "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" "My friends, be confident" [Cyrus]
Track length4:50
Belshazzar HWV61 : Act 2 "See from his post" "Why, faithless river" "Euphrates hath his task" "Of things on earth" [Chorus]
Track length6:30
Act 2 "Let the deep bowl" [Belshazzar] "Where is the God" [Chorus] "Help, help the king!" [Chorus, Belshazzar] "Call all my wise men" [Belshazzar]
Track length5:45
Act 2 "No! to thyself" [Daniel] "Yet to obey" [Daniel] "Though, o king" [Daniel] "Oh sentence too severe!" [Nitocris]
Track length4:41
Act 3 "Fain would I hope" [Nitocris, Daniel] "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" [Daniel]
Track length2:19
- Thomas Thomaschke (bass), Werner Hollweg (tenor), Glenys Linos (soprano), Paul Esswood (countertenor), Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Gabriele Sima (soprano)
- Concentus musicus Wien, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Mozart Sängerknaben
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Erwin Ortner
Act 1 "It must be so - or these vile Ammonites" "Pour forth no more unheeded pray'rs" [Zebul]
Track length6:45
Act 1 "But Jephtha comes" [Zebul, Jephtha] "Virtue my soul shall still embrace" [Jephtha]
Track length5:06
Act 1 "'Twill be a painful separation, Jephtha" "In gentle murmurs will I mourn" [Storgè]
Track length5:54
Act 1 "Happy this embassy, my charming Iphis" "Dull delay, in piercing anguish" [Hamor]
Track length5:06
Act 1 "Ill suits the voice of love when glory calls" "Take the heart you fondly gave" [Iphis]
Track length4:26
Act 1 "I go; my soul, inspir'd by thy command" [Hamor] "These labours past, how happy we!" [Iphis]
Track length6:52
Act 1 "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads" "Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" [Storgè]
Track length5:12
Act 1 "Say, my dear mother" [Iphis, Storgè] "The smiling dawn of happy days" [Iphis]
Track length4:13
Act 2 "Again Heav'n smiles on his repentant people" "Freedom now once more possessing" [Zebul]
Track length3:43
Act 2 "First perish thou, and perish all the world!... Let other creatures die" [Storgè]
Track length2:50
Act 3 "Hide thou thy hated beams, O sun" "A father, offering up" "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Jephtha]
Track length6:20
Act 3 "Rise, Jephtha, and ye rev'rend priests" "Happy, Iphis, shalt thou live" [Angel]
Track length5:53
Act 3 "O let me fold thee in a mother's arms" "Sweet as sight to the blind" [Storgè]
Track length2:31
Act 3 "With transport, Iphis, I behold thy safety" "'Tis Heaven's all-ruling pow'r" [Hamor]
Track length7:35
Awards and reviews
The particular strength of the Teldec reissue is its splendid cast, all of whom are technically outstanding, invest their every word with meaning and make recitatives fully alive. The titlerole is in fact one of the smallest, but Tear makes a burly, headstrong king, who handles the
scene of the writing on the wall with fine dramatic instinct… Palmer is immensely moving… Esswood, as Daniel, impresses by the beauty of his tone and his command of long phrases; Lehane's brilliantly exuberant ornamentation, apparently improvisatory, marks her as a
natural mistress of the style…and van der Bilt shows a rich voice throughout… The Stockholm Chamber Choir is firm-toned and tidy
…the soloists, led by Felicity Palmer and Robert Tear, keep the story-line clearly in mind with their expressive enunciation of the words. The other soloists too are excellent, notably Paul Esswood with his fresh counter-tenor tone, and the bass, Peter van der Bilt. Most
enjoyable of all is the singing of the fine Stockholm Choir, delectably light and pointed…
