828021610325

Handel' Saul Oratorio

Purves:Connolly:The Sixteen

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Format: 3CD

Cat No: COR16103

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Release Date:  02 September 2012

Label:  Coro

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  3

Barcode:  828021610325

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Handel' Saul Oratorio

  • Description

    Sarah Connolly's David is in a class of its own. Her wonderfully refined and sensitive singing, radiated with intense musicality and intelligence, made the aria 'O Lord whose mercies numberless' a profoundly moving meditation, which must stand as one of Handel's most ardent professions of Christian faith." Rupert Christiansen, Daily Telegraph (on The Sixteen's performance of Saul at The Barbican)Christopher Purves: SaulSarah Connolly: DavidRobert Murray: JonathanElizabeth Atherton: MerabJoelle Harvey: MichalMark Dobell: High PriestJeremy Budd: Witch of EndorStuart Young: Ghost of SamuelRenowned for their Handel interpretations, Harry Christophers and his award-winning choir, The Sixteen, add to their glittering catalogue of Handel discs with this new recording of Saul.In his biblical oratorio, Saul, Handel wrote an epic work of great and noble drama and of thrilling musical inventiveness. Saul represents Handel's first proper foray into oratorio and it is a masterpiece full of great and magical moments. It is bursting with exceptional music, extraordinary orchestration (replete with trombones, deep-sounding drum and perky carillon), extended choruses both profound and ebullient, symphonies, concerto movements for organ, recitatives which explore the varying moods of the characters, and the most stunning arias. In Saul Handel gifted soloists with roles of vivid characterisation and the artists on this disc are some of the finest Handelian interpreters of today including Christopher Purves - a baritone whose talent for dramatic realisation is matched by superb musical craftsmanship - and Sarah Connolly - whose intensely radiant performance of David on this CD confirms her status as one of our most sought-after Handel performers. Both Christopher and Sarah sang with The Sixteen at the start of their careers, and Sarah released her first solo album Heroes and Heroines on CORO, and so it is with great pride that we welcome them back for this recording. Robert Murray, Elizabeth Atherton and Joelle Harvey along with Sixteen regulars, Mark Dobell, Jeremy Budd and Stuart Young, complete the stellar line-up of soloists on this new recording."

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Overture
      • 2. How Excellent Thy Name
      • 3. An Infant Rais'd
      • 4. Along the Monster
      • 5. The Youth Inspir'd
      • 6. How Excellent Thy Name
      • 7. Hallelujah!
      • 8. He Comes, He Comes!
      • 9. O Godlike Youth
      • 10. Behold, O King
      • 11. O King, Your Favours
      • 12. Oh, Early Piety!
      • 13. What Abject Thoughts
      • 14. Yet Think On Whom This Honour
      • 15. Birth and Fortune I Despise!
      • 16. Go On, Illustrious Pair!
      • 17. While Yet Thy Tide
      • 18. Thou, Merab, First in Birth
      • 19. My Soul Rejects
      • 20. Sinfonia
      • 21. Already See the Daughters
      • 22. Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King!
      • 23. What Do I Hear?
      • 24. David His Ten Thousands Slew
      • 25. To Him Ten Thousands
      • 26. With Rage I Shall Burst
      • 27. Imprudent Women!
      • 28. Fell Rage and Black Despair
      • 29. Racked With Infernal Pains
      • 30. O Lord, Whose Mercies
      • 31. Symphony
      • 32. 'Tis All in Vain
      • 33. A Serpent, in My Bosom Warm'd
      • 34. Has He Escap'd My Rage?
      • 35. Capricious Man
      • 36. O Filial Piety!
      • 37. No, Cruel Father, No!
      • 38. O Lord, Whose Providence
      • 39. Preserve Him for the Glory

      Disc 2

      • 1. Envy, Eldest Born of Hell
      • 2. Ah, Dearest Friend
      • 3. But Sooner Jordan's Stream
      • 4. Oh, Strange Vicissitude!
      • 5. Such Haughty Beauties Rather Move
      • 6. My Father Comes
      • 7. Sin Not, O King, Against the Youth
      • 8. As Great Jehovah Lives, I Swear
      • 9. From Cities Stormed, and Battles Won
      • 10. Appear, My Friend
      • 11. Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart
      • 12. Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter!
      • 13. O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair
      • 14. Is There a Man, Who All His Ways
      • 15. Sinfonia
      • 16. Thy Father Is As Cruel
      • 17. At Persecution I Can Laugh
      • 18. Whom Dost Thou Seek?
      • 19. No, No, Let the Guilty Tremble
      • 20. Mean As He Was, He Is My Brother Now
      • 21. Author of Peace
      • 22. Symphony
      • 23. The Time at Length Is Come
      • 24. Where Is the Son of Jesse?
      • 25. Oh, Fatal Consequence

      Disc 3

      • 1. Wretch That I Am, of My Own Ruin Author!
      • 2. 'Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman
      • 3. With Me What Would'st Thou?
      • 4. Infernal Spirits, By Whose Pow'r
      • 5. Why Hast Thou Forced Me from the Realms of Peace
      • 6. Sinfonia
      • 7. Whence Comest Thou?
      • 8. Impious Wretch, of Race Accurst!
      • 9. Symphony: Dead March
      • 10. Mourn, Israel, Mourn Thy Beauty Lost
      • 11. Oh, Let It Not in Gath Be Heard
      • 12. From This Unhappy Day
      • 13. Brave Jonathan His Bow Never Drew
      • 14. Eagles Were Not So Swift As They
      • 15. In Sweetest Harmony They Lived!
      • 16. O Fatal Day!
      • 17. Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More!
      • 18. Gird On Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might

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