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Handel: Solomon

Tim Mead, Dominque Labelle, Claron McFadden, Micheal Slattery & Roderick Williams.

Winchester Cathedral Choir & Festspielorchester Gottingen, Nicholas McGegan

Handel: Solomon
…Nicholas McGegan… conducting is light on its feet without ever sounding pressed. His soloists, bar for bar, match Reuss's in quality. Tim Mead's counter-tenor Solomon offers pleasing tone…...

BBC Music Magazine, December 20074 out of 5 stars

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Handel: Solomon

Tim Mead, Dominque Labelle, Claron McFadden, Micheal Slattery & Roderick Williams.

Winchester Cathedral Choir & Festspielorchester Gottingen, Nicholas McGegan

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…Nicholas McGegan… conducting is light on its feet without ever sounding pressed. His soloists, bar for bar, match Reuss's in quality. Tim Mead's counter-tenor Solomon offers pleasing tone…...

BBC Music Magazine, December 20074 out of 5 stars

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Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Handel: Solomon
Work length6:59
Overture
Track length6:59
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67 / Act 1
Work length53:10
No. 1, Your Harps and Cymbals
Track length3:45
No. 2, Praise Ye the Lord
Track length4:48
No. 3, With Pious Heart
Track length4:31
No. 4, Almighty Power
Track length2:40
No. 5, Imperial Solomon
Track length0:56
No. 6, Sacred Rapture
Track length4:34
No. 7, Throughout the Land
Track length2:48
No. 8, Bless'd Be the Lord
Track length0:20
No. 9, What Though I Trace
Track length6:30
No. 10, And See My Queen
Track length0:37
No. 11, Bless'd the Day
Track length5:18
No. 12, Thou Fair Inhabitant
Track length0:34
No. 13, Welcome as the Dawn of Day
Track length3:02
No. 14, Vain Are the Transient Beauties
Track length0:44
No. 15, Indulge Thy Faith
Track length2:59
No. 16, My Blooming Fair
Track length0:08
No. 17, Haste to the cedar grove
Track length3:10
No. 18, When Thou Art Absent
Track length0:13
No. 19, With Thee th'unshelter'd Moor
Track length2:02
No. 20, Search Round the World
Track length0:18
No. 21, May No Rash Intruder
Track length3:13
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67 / Act 2
Work length49:05
No. 22, From the Censer
Track length5:11
No. 23, Prais'd Be the Lord
Track length0:55
No. 24, When the Sun
Track length4:01
No. 25, Great Prince
Track length0:27
No. 26, Thrice Bless'd That Wise Discerning King
Track length3:32
No. 27, My Sovereign Liege
Track length1:56
No. 28, Words Are Weak
Track length4:11
No. 29, What Says the Other
Track length1:06
No. 30, Thy Sentence, Great King
Track length2:10
No. 31, Withhold, Withhold the Executing Hand
Track length0:13
No. 32, Can I See My Infant Gor'd
Track length3:59
No. 33, Israel' Attend
Track length1:32
No. 34, Thrice Bless'd Be the King
Track length3:23
No. 35, From the East Unto the West
Track length2:51
No. 36, From Morn to Eve
Track length0:26
No. 37, See the Tall Palm
Track length5:34
No. 38, No More Shall Armed Bands
Track length0:14
No. 39, Beneath the Vine
Track length4:40
No. 40, Swell, Swell the Full Chorus
Track length2:44
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67 / Act 3
Work length46:19
No. 41, The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Track length3:01
No. 42, From Arabia's Spicy Shores
Track length0:59
No. 43, Ev'ry Sight These Eyes Behold
Track length4:22
No. 44, Sweep, Sweep the String
Track length0:11
No. 45, Music, Spread Thy Voice Around
Track length3:32
No. 46, Now a Diff'rent Measure Try
Track length1:44
No. 47, Then at Once From Rage Remove
Track length0:37
No. 48, Draw the Tear From Hopeless Love
Track length2:30
No. 49, Next the Tortur'd Soul Release
Track length0:12
No. 50, Thus Rolling Surge Rise
Track length3:21
No. 51, Thy Harmony's Divine
Track length0:57
No. 52, Pious King
Track length3:12
No. 53, Thrice Happy King
Track length0:43
No. 54, Golden Columns
Track length3:18
No. 55, Praise the Lord
Track length4:19
No. 56, Gold Now Is Common
Track length0:22
No. 57, How Green Our Fertile Pastures Look
Track length2:11
No. 58, May Peace in Salem
Track length0:39
No. 59, Will the Sun Forget to Streak
Track length4:55
No. 60, Adieu, Fair Queen
Track length0:12
No. 61, Ev'ry Joy that Wisdom Knows
Track length2:42
No. 62, The Name of the Wicked
Track length2:20
Excerpt,Handel: Solomon
Work length0:30
Closing Applause
Track length0:30

Awards and reviews

December 2007

…Nicholas McGegan… conducting is light on its feet without ever sounding pressed. His soloists, bar for bar, match Reuss's in quality. Tim Mead's counter-tenor Solomon offers pleasing tone… Dominque Labelle sparkles as his consort while Claron McFadden's Queen of Sheba is as shiny as her Second Harlot is shrill. The general fluency of Michael Slattery's Zadok (as with Padmore) is only impeded when the notes come really thick and fast, and Roderick Williams's Levite is sonorous and smooth. Both sets are good, through neither quite matches Paul McCreesh's complete and colourful version, which also has the best sound.
4 out of 5 stars

December 2007

McGegan… directs his responsive orchestra with his customary rhythmic verve and feeling for the grand gesture. He uses an all-male choir, as Handel himself did, often with memorable results… Though they could make more of their words, McGegan's sopranos are both fine (Dominique Labelle, with her not unattractive fast vibrato, is especially moving as the first harlot); and Roderick Williams sings with warm, firm tone as the Levite.
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