Handel' Saul Oratorio
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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
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
The Sixteen; Harry Christophers
The Sixteen:Christophers
The 16:Christophers
Sixteen:Christophers
Purves:Connolly:The Sixteen
Hilliard Ensemble
The Sixteen/Christophers
The 16:S