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Special offer. Handel: Solomon

Carolyn Watkinson, Nancy Argenta & Barbara Hendricks

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Solomon

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With panache [Gardiner] shows how authentic-sized forces can convey Handelian glamour even with sharply focused textures and fast speeds...the overriding glory is the singing of the Monteverdi...

Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

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Special offer. Handel: Solomon

Carolyn Watkinson, Nancy Argenta & Barbara Hendricks

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

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With panache [Gardiner] shows how authentic-sized forces can convey Handelian glamour even with sharply focused textures and fast speeds...the overriding glory is the singing of the Monteverdi...

Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

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Handel: Solomon
Work length2:15:55
Overture
Track length5:09
" Your harps and cymbals"
Track length3:17
" Praise ye the Lord "
Track length4:46
" With pious heart "
Track length4:40
" Almighty Power "
Track length2:57
" Imperial Solomon" - " Sacred rapture "
Track length4:48
" Throughout the land "
Track length3:29
" Bless'd be the Lord " - " What though I trace "
Track length7:00
" And see my Queen "
Track length0:44
" Bless'd the day "
Track length4:45
" Thou fair inhabitant" - "Welcome as the dawn of day"
Track length3:58
" My blooming fair" - " Haste, haste "
Track length3:22
" When thou art absent" - " With thee th'unshelter "
Track length2:21
" May no rash intruder "
Track length3:16
" From the censer "
Track length5:10
" Prais'd be the Lord" - " When the sun "
Track length5:09
" Great prince " - " Thrice bless'd "
Track length3:41
" My sovereign liege "
Track length1:52
" Thou son of David " - " Words are weak "
Track length5:35
" What says the other " - " Thy sentence, great king"
Track length3:28
" Withhold the executing hand" - " Can I see my infant gor'd"
Track length4:23
" Israel' attend "
Track length1:18
" Thrice bless'd be the king "
Track length3:58
" From the east unto the west "
Track length2:28
" No more shall armed bands" - " Beneath the vine "
Track length6:23
" Swell, swell the full chorus "
Track length2:43
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Track length3:01
" From Arabia's spicy shores "
Track length1:25
" Sweep, sweep the string" - " Music, spread thy voice
Track length3:34
" Now a diff'rent measure" - " Shake the dome "
Track length1:46
" Then at once from rage" - " Draw the tear "
Track length3:20
" Next the tortur'd soul" - " Thus rolling surges rises "
Track length3:39
" Thy harmony's divine "
Track length0:58
" Thrice happy king " - " Golden columns "
Track length3:58
" May peace in Salem ever dwell" - " Will the sun for- get to streak "
Track length5:54
" Adieu, fair queen" - " Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows"
Track length3:01
" Praise the Lord "
Track length4:39

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2011 edition

With panache [Gardiner] shows how authentic-sized forces can convey Handelian glamour even with sharply focused textures and fast speeds...the overriding glory is the singing of the Monteverdi Choir. Its clean, crisp articulation matches the brilliant playing of the English Baroque Soloists.
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