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Handel: Saul

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Winfield (tenor), Donald McIntyre (bass), James Bowman (countertenor), Ryland Davies (tenor), Margaret Price (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Stafford Dean (bass)

English Chamber Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras

Handel: Saul

Handel: Saul

Sheila Armstrong (soprano), John Winfield (tenor), Donald McIntyre (bass), James Bowman (countertenor), Ryland Davies (tenor), Margaret Price (soprano), Gerald English (tenor), Stafford Dean (bass)

English Chamber Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras

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Handel: Saul
Work length2:56:20
Allegro
Track length4:35
Larghetto
Track length2:28
Allegro
Track length3:14
Andante larghetto
Track length4:02
1. Chorus: How excellent thy Name, O Lord
Track length2:59
2. Air: "An infant rais'd by thy command"
Track length1:53
3. Trio: Along the Monster Atheist strode
Track length1:05
4. Chorus: The Youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord
Track length2:12
5. Chorus: How excellent thy Name, O Lord
Track length2:43
6. Recitative: He comes - 7. Air: O Godlike Youth!
Track length3:43
8. Recitative: Behold, O King, the brave victorious Youth
Track length0:57
9. Air: O King, your Favours with Delight I take
Track length2:25
10. Recitative: O early Piety!
Track length0:33
11. Air: What abject Thoughts a Prince can have
Track length2:32
12. Recitative: Yet think, on whom this Honour you bestow
Track length0:25
13. Air: Birth and Fortune I despise!
Track length5:01
14. Recitative: Go on, illustrious Pair!
Track length0:26
15. Air: Why yet thy Tide of Blood runs high
Track length2:22
16. Recitative: Thou, Merab, first in Birth
Track length0:28
17. Air: My Soul rejects the Thought with Scorn
Track length1:30
18. Air: See, see, with what a scornful Air
Track length1:08
19. Air: Ah! lovely Youth!
Track length1:05
20. Symphony
Track length1:10
21. Recitative: Already see
Track length0:20
22. Chorus: Welcome, welcome mighty King!
Track length1:37
23. Accompagnato: What do I hear?
Track length0:22
24. Chorus: David his Ten Thousands slew
Track length0:36
25. Accompagnato: To him Ten thousands!
Track length0:19
26. Air: With Rage I shall burst his Praises to hear!
Track length1:33
27. Recitative: Imprudent Women!
Track length0:50
28. Air: Fell Rage and black Despair possessed
Track length3:02
29. Recitative: This but the smallest Part of Harmony
Track length0:38
30. Accompagnato: By thee this Universal Frame
Track length2:45
31. Recitative: Rack'd with Infernal Pains
Track length0:21
32. Air: O Lord, whose Mercies numberless
Track length3:41
33. Symphony
Track length1:51
34. Recitative: 'Tis all in vain
Track length0:21
35. Air: A Serpent in my Bosom warm'd
Track length2:10
36. Recitative: Has he escap'd my Rage?
Track length0:24
37. Air: Capricious Man
Track length4:25
38. Accompagnato: O Filial Piety!
Track length1:58
39. Air: No, no cruel Father, no
Track length1:53
40. Air: O Lord, whose Providence Ever wakes for their Defence
Track length2:00
41. Chorus: Preserve him for the Glory of thy Name
Track length2:31
42. Chorus: Envy! Eldestborn of Hell!
Track length3:38
43. Recitative: Ah! dearest Friend
Track length0:46
44. Air: But sooner Jordan's Stream, I swear
Track length2:17
45. Recitative: O strange Vicissitude!
Track length0:55
46. Air: Such haughty Beauties
Track length2:33
47. Recitative: My Father comes
Track length0:18
48. Recitative: Hast thou obey'd my Orders
Track length0:41
49. Air: Sin not, o King, against the Youth
Track length2:37
50. Air: As great Jehovah lives
Track length1:47
51. Air: From Cities storm'd, and Battles won
Track length2:43
52. Recitative: Appear, my Friend
Track length0:38
53. Air: Your Words, O King
Track length1:06
54. Recitative: Yes he shall wed my Daughter!
Track length0:36
55. Recitative: A Father's Will
Track length0:37
56. Duet: O Fairest of ten thousand Fair
Track length3:00
57. Chorus: Is there a Man
Track length1:34
58. Symphony
Track length3:46
59. Recitative: Thy Father is as cruel
Track length0:39
60. Duet: At Persecution I can laugh
Track length1:25
61. Recitative: Whom dost thou seek?
Track length0:44
62. Air: No, no, let the Guilty tremble
Track length1:45
63. Recitative: Mean as he was
Track length1:00
64. Air: Author of Peace
Track length3:09
65. Symphony
Track length1:11
66. Accompagnato: The Time at length is come
Track length0:50
67. Recitative: Where is the Son of Jesse
Track length1:11
68. Chorus: O fatal Consequence of Rage
Track length5:05
69. Accompagnato: Wretch that I am
Track length3:09
70. Accompagnato: 'Tis said, here lives a Woman
Track length0:55
71. Recitative: With me what would'st thou?
Track length0:38
72. Air: Infernal Spirits
Track length2:22
73. Accompagnato: Why hast thou forc'd me from the Realms of Peace
Track length3:45
74. Symphony
Track length0:39
75. Recitative: Whence comest thou?
Track length1:16
76. Air: Impious Wretch, of Race accurst
Track length1:47
77. March
Track length3:35
78. Chorus: Mourn Israel
Track length3:37
79. Air: O let it not in Gath be heard
Track length2:55
80. Air: From this unhappy Day
Track length3:31
81. Air: Brave Jonathan his Bow ne'er drew
Track length2:25
82. Chorus: Eagles were not so swift as they
Track length0:24
83. Air: In sweetest Harmony
Track length5:09
84. Solo and Chorus: O fatal Day
Track length4:51
85. Recitative: Ye Men of Judah, weep no more
Track length0:36
86. Chorus: Gird on thy Sword
Track length5:42

Spotlight on this release

  • Sir Donald McIntyre (1934-2025)

    17th Nov 2025

    The New Zealand-born bass-baritone, who was a regular at the Bayreuth Festival for over two decades and triumphed as Wotan in the 1976 centenary production of the Ring Cycle, has died aged 91.

    Classical Obituary
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