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Handel: Saul

Ditte Andersen, Anna Prohaska, Maximilian Schmitt & Tim Mead

Dresdner Kammerchor & Dresdner Barockorchester, Hans-Christoph Rademann

Handel: Saul

Handel: Saul

Ditte Andersen, Anna Prohaska, Maximilian Schmitt & Tim Mead

Dresdner Kammerchor & Dresdner Barockorchester, Hans-Christoph Rademann

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Saul is among Handel’s most dramatic oratorios. As in almost no other Handel oratorio, the exciting drama of this work shows how close it was to the opera of that time. Through the use of harp and glockenspiel in the orchestra he impressively portrays the history of Saul and David with the sounds of ancient Israel.

Contents and tracklist

Excerpt,Handel: Saul
Work length11:29
Symphony
Track length11:29
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1
Work length1:04:13
1. Chorus. "How excellent thy Name, O Lord"
Track length2:31
2. Air. "An infant rais'd by thy command"
Track length1:09
3. Trio. "Along the Monster Atheist strode"
Track length1:11
4. Chorus. "The Youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord"
Track length2:02
5. Chorus. "How excellent thy Name, O Lord"
Track length2:24
6. Recitative. "He comes" - 7. Air. "O Godlike Youth!"
Track length3:21
8. Recitative. "Behold, O King, the brave victorious Youth"
Track length0:46
9. Air. "O King, your Favours with Delight I take"
Track length4:19
10. Recitative. "O early Piety!"
Track length0:21
11. Air. "What abject Thoughts a Prince can have"
Track length2:06
12. Recitative. "Yet think, on whom this Honour you bestow"
Track length0:19
13. Aria. "Birth and Fortune I despise!"
Track length4:37
14. Recitative. "Go on, illustrious Pair!"
Track length0:20
15. Air. "Why yet thy Tide of Blood runs high"
Track length2:26
16. Recitative. "Thou, Merab, first in Birth"
Track length0:21
17. Air. "My Soul rejects the Thought with Scorn"
Track length1:14
18. Air. "See, see, with what a scornful Air"
Track length1:10
19. Air. "Ah! lovely Youth!"
Track length0:55
20. Symphony
Track length1:06
21. Recitative. "Already see"
Track length0:19
22. Chorus. "Welcome, welcome mighty King!"
Track length1:30
23. Accompagnato. "What do I hear?"
Track length0:24
24. Chorus. "David his Ten Thousands slew"
Track length0:32
25. Accompagnato. "To him Ten thousands!"
Track length0:21
26. Air. "With Rage I shall burst his Praises to hear!"
Track length1:25
27. Recitative. "Imprudent Women!"
Track length0:44
28. Air. "Fell Rage and black Despair possessed"
Track length2:43
29. Recitative. "This but the smallest Part of Harmony"
Track length0:25
30. Accompagnato. "By thee this Universal Frame"
Track length2:03
31. Recitative. "Rack'd with Infernal Pains"
Track length0:22
32. Air. "O Lord, whose Mercies numberless"
Track length3:41
33. Symphony
Track length1:28
34. Recitative. "'Tis all in vain"
Track length0:14
35. Air. "A Serpent in my Bosom warm'd"
Track length1:54
36. Recitative. "Has he escap'd my Rage?"
Track length0:27
37. Air. "Capricious Man"
Track length5:51
38. Accompagnato. "O Filial Piety!"
Track length1:19
39. Air. "No, no cruel Father, no"
Track length1:35
40. Air. "O Lord, whose Providence Ever wakes for their Defence"
Track length1:41
41. Chorus. "Preserve him for the Glory of thy Name"
Track length2:37
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2
Work length17:12
42. Chorus. "Envy! Eldestborn of Hell!"
Track length2:09
43. Recitative. "Ah! dearest Friend"
Track length0:33
44. Air. "But sooner Jordan's Stream, I swear"
Track length2:06
45. Recitative. "O strange Vicissitude!"
Track length0:48
46. Air. "Such haughty Beauties"
Track length4:12
47. Recitative. "My Father comes"
Track length0:19
48. Recitative. "Hast thou obey'd my Orders"
Track length0:39
49. Air. "Sin not, o King, against the Youth"
Track length1:57
50. Air. "As great Jehovah lives"
Track length1:03
51. Air. "From Cities storm'd, and Battles won"
Track length1:56
52. Recitative. "Appear, my Friend"
Track length0:31
53. Air. "Your Words, O King"
Track length0:59
Handel: Recit. (Saul): Yes, he shall wed my daughter!
Work length0:29
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2
Work length26:00
55. Recitative. "A Father's Will"
Track length0:30
56. Duet. "O Fairest of ten thousand Fair"
Track length2:25
57. Chorus. "Is there a Man"
Track length1:21
58. Symphony
Track length6:04
59. Recitative. "Thy Father is as cruel"
Track length0:35
60. Duet. "At Persecution I can laugh"
Track length1:15
61. Recitative. "Whom dost thou seek?"
Track length0:41
62. Air. "No, no, let the Guilty tremble"
Track length1:31
63. Recitative. "Mean as he was"
Track length0:55
64. Air. "Author of Peace"
Track length3:28
65. Symphony
Track length1:05
66. Accompagnat. "The Time at length is come"
Track length0:37
67. Recitative. "Where is the Son of Jesse"
Track length1:04
68. Chorus. "O fatal Consequence of Rage"
Track length4:29
Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3
Work length44:52
69. Accompagnato. "Wretch that I am"
Track length2:25
70. Accompagnato. "'Tis said, here lives a Woman"
Track length0:51
71. Recitative. "With me what would'st thou?"
Track length1:00
72. Air: Infernal Spirits
Track length2:14
73. Accompagnato. "Why hast thou forc'd me from the Realms of Peace"
Track length3:25
74. Symphony
Track length0:32
75. Recitative. "Whence comest thou?"
Track length1:15
76. Air. "Impious Wretch, of Race accurst"
Track length1:50
77. March
Track length4:30
78. Chorus. "Mourn Israel"
Track length4:38
79. Air. "O let it not in Gath be heard"
Track length2:14
80. Air. "From this unhappy Day"
Track length2:58
81. Air. "Brave Jonathan his Bow ne'er drew"
Track length2:29
82. Chorus. "Eagles were not so swift as they"
Track length0:18
83. Air. "In sweetest Harmony"
Track length4:13
84. Solo and Chorus. "O Fatal Day"
Track length4:30
85. Recitative. "Ye Men of Judah, weep no more"
Track length0:29
86. Chorus. "Gird on thy Sword"
Track length5:01
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