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Special offer. Handel: Saul

Alistair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Donna Brown & Lynne Dawson

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloist, John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Saul
These CDs of Handel's exotically-scored study in implacable jealousy capture a live performance energised by Gardiner's high precision dramatic acuity. The casting is mostly distinguished,...

BBC Music Magazine, July 20074 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Handel: Saul

Alistair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, John Mark Ainsley, Donna Brown & Lynne Dawson

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloist, John Eliot Gardiner

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These CDs of Handel's exotically-scored study in implacable jealousy capture a live performance energised by Gardiner's high precision dramatic acuity. The casting is mostly distinguished,...

BBC Music Magazine, July 20074 out of 5 stars

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Contents and tracklist

Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1
Work length1:12:40
Allegro
Track length4:05
Larghetto
Track length1:52
Allegro (Reprise)
Track length2:47
Andante larghetto
Track length3:16
"How excellent thy name, O Lord"
Track length2:45
"An infant rais'd by thy command...Along the monster atheist strode"
Track length2:32
"The youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord"
Track length1:50
"How excellent thy name, O Lord" (Reprise)
Track length2:20
"He comes...O godlike youth!"
Track length3:06
"Behold, O King, the brave victorious youth"
Track length0:45
"O King, your favours with delight I take...O early piety!
Track length5:15
"What abject thoughts a Prince can have...Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow"
Track length2:27
"Birth and fortune I despise!"
Track length4:05
"Go on, illustrious pair!...While yet thy tide of blood runs high"
Track length2:31
"Thou, Merab, first in birth... My soul rejects the thought...See, see with what a scornful air... Ah! lovely youth!"
Track length3:22
Symphony..."Already see the daughters...Welcome, welcome mighty King!"
Track length2:46
"What do I hear?... David his ten thousands slew...To him ten thousands!"
Track length1:09
"With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!"
Track length1:20
"Imprudent women!"
Track length0:39
"Fell rage and black despair possessed"
Track length2:34
"This but the smallest part of harmony...By thee this universal frame"
Track length2:35
"Rack'd with infernal pains"
Track length0:13
"O Lord, whose mercies"...Symphony
Track length5:09
"'Tis all in vain...A serpent in my bosom warm'd...Has he escaped my rage?"
Track length2:17
"Capricious man"
Track length3:37
"O filial piety!"
Track length1:23
"No, no cruel father, no!"
Track length1:34
"O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence"
Track length1:35
"Preserve him for the glory of thy name"
Track length2:51
Audience Applause Act 1
Work length0:25
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2
Work length43:36
"Envy! Eldestborn of hell!
Track length2:49
"Ah! dearest friend"
Track length0:32
"But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear"
Track length2:08
"O strange vicissitude!"
Track length0:46
"Such haughty beauties"
Track length4:17
"My father comes...Hast thou obey'd my orders"
Track length0:44
"Sin not, o King, against the youth"
Track length2:09
"As great Jehovah lives"
Track length1:17
"From cities storm'd, and battles won"
Track length2:13
"Appear, my friend"
Track length0:31
"Your words, O King...Yes he shall wed my daughter!"
Track length1:24
"A Father's will"
Track length0:27
"O fairest of ten thousand fair... Is there a man"
Track length4:05
Symphony
Track length4:07
"Thy father is as cruel"
Track length0:33
"At persecution I can laugh"
Track length1:14
"Whom dost thou seek?"
Track length0:30
"No, no, let the guilty tremble"
Track length1:27
"Mean as he was"
Track length0:49
"Author of peace"
Track length3:11
Symphony (Reprise)
Track length1:13
"The time at length is come...Where is the son of Jesse"
Track length1:33
"O fatal consequence of rage"
Track length5:37
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3
Work length41:20
"Wretch that I am...'Tis said, here lives a woman...With me what would'st thou?"
Track length3:45
"Infernal Spirits"
Track length2:13
"Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace"
Track length3:02
Symphony
Track length0:35
"Whence comest thou?...Impious wretch, of race accurst"
Track length2:38
March
Track length3:06
"Mourn Israel"
Track length3:25
"O let it not in Gath be heard"
Track length2:06
"From this unhappy day"
Track length2:53
"Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew"
Track length2:24
"Eagles were not so swift as they"
Track length0:21
"In sweetest harmony"
Track length4:28
"O fatal Day"
Track length4:40
"Ye men of Judah, weep no more"
Track length0:27
"Gird on thy sword"
Track length5:17
Audience Applause Act 3
Work length0:28

Awards and reviews

July 2007

These CDs of Handel's exotically-scored study in implacable jealousy capture a live performance energised by Gardiner's high precision dramatic acuity. The casting is mostly distinguished, though Derek Lee Ragin's David sounds semi-engaged.
4 out of 5 stars
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