Handel: Solomon

Carus: CARUS83242

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Handel: Solomon

Label:

Carus

Catalogue No:

CARUS83242

Discs:

3

Release date:

17th Sept 2007

Barcode:

4009350832428

Length:

2 hours 36 minutes

Medium:

SACD (download also available)

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel
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Handel: Solomon


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

Winchester Cathedral Choir & Festspielorchester Gottingen, Nicholas McGegan

Recorded live at performances in Dresden

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George Frideric Handel: Solomon, HWV 67

playAct I: Overture

playAct I Scene 1: Your harps and cymbals sound to great Jehovah's praise (Chorus of Priests)

playAct I Scene 1: Air: Praise ye the Lord for all His mercies past (Levite)

playAct I Scene 1: With pious hearts, and holy tongue (Chorus of Priests)

playAct I Scene 1: Air: Almighty pow'r, who rul'st the earth and skies (Solomon)

playAct I Scene 1: Recitative: Imperial Solomon, thy pray'rs are heard (Zadok)

playAct I Scene 1: Air: Sacred raptures cheer my breast (Zadok)

playAct I Scene 1: Throughout the land Jehovah's praise record (Chorus of Israelites)

playAct I Scene 1: Recitative: Bless'd be the Lord, who look'd with gracious eyes (Solomon)

playAct I Scene 1: Air: What though I trace each herb and flow'r (Solomon)

playAct I Scene 2: Recitative: And see my queen, my wedded love (Solomon)

playAct I Scene 2: Air: Bless'd the day when first my eyes (Queen)

playAct I Scene 2: Recitative: Thou fair inhabitant of Nile (Solomon, Queen)

playAct I Scene 2: Duet: Welcome as the dawn of day (Queen, Solomon)

playAct I Scene 2: Recitative: Vain are the transient beauties of the beauties (Zadok)

playAct I Scene 2: Air: Indulge thy faith and wedded truth (Zadok)

playAct I Scene 2: Recitative: My blooming fair, come, come away (Solomon)

playAct I Scene 2: Air: Haste, haste to the cedar grove (Solomon)

playAct I Scene 2: Recitative: When thou art absent from my sight (Queen)

playAct I Scene 2: Air: With thee th'unshelter'd moor I'd tread (Queen)

playAct I Scene 2: Recitative: Search round the world, there never yet was seen (Zadok)

playAct I Scene 2: May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours (Chorus)

playAct II Scene 1: From the censer curling rise (Chorus of Israelites)

playAct II Scene 1: Recitative: Prais'd be the Lord, from Him my wisdom springs (Solomon)

playAct II Scene 1: Air: When the sun o'er yonder hills (Solomon)

playAct II Scene 1: Recitative: Great prince, thy resolution's just (Levite)

playAct II Scene 1: Air: Thrice bless'd that wise discerning king (Levite)

playAct II Scene 2: Recitative: My sovereign liege, two women stand (Attendant, Solomon) - Scene 3: Thou son of David, hear a mother's grief (First Harlot)

playAct II Scene 3: Trio: Words are weak to paint my fears (First Harlot, Second Harlot, Solomon)

playAct II Scene 3: Recitative: What says the other to th'imputed charge? (Solomon, Second Harlot)

playAct II Scene 3: Air: Thy sentence, great king (Second Harlot)

playAct II Scene 3: Recitative: Withhold, withhold the executing hand! (First Harlot)

playAct II Scene 3: Air: Can I see my infant gor'd (First Harlot)

playAct II Scene 3: Recitative: Israel, attend to what your king shall say (Solomon)

playAct II Scene 3: Duet: Thrice bless'd be the king (First Harlot, Solomon)

playAct II Scene 3: From the east unto the west (Chorus of Israelites)

playAct II Scene 3: Recitative: From morn to eve I could enraptur'd ding (Zadok)

playAct II Scene 3: Air: See the tall palm that lifts head (Zadok)

playAct II Scene 3: Recitative: No more shall armed bands our hopes destroy (First Harlot)

playAct II Scene 3: Air: Beneath the vine, or fig-tree's shade (First Woman)

playAct II Scene 3: Swell, swell the full chorus (Chorus of Priests)

playAct III: Symphony: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

playAct III: Recitative: From Arabia's spicy shores (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)

playAct III: Air: Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba)

playAct III: Recitative: Sweep, sweep the string, to soothe the royal fair (Solomon)

playAct III: Air: Music, spread thy voice around (Solomon, Israelites)

playAct III: Air: Now a diff'rent measure try (Solomon, Israelites)

playAct III: Recitative: Then at once from rage remove (Solomon)

playAct III: Draw the tear from hopeless love (Chorus of Israelites)

playAct III: Recitative: Next the tortur'd soul release (Solomon)

playAct III: Air: Thus rolling surges rise (Solomon, Israelites)

playAct III: Recitative: Thy harmony's divine, great king (Queen of Sheba)

playAct III: Air: Pious king, and virtuous queen (Levite)

playAct III: Recitative: Thrice happy king, to have achiev'd (Zadok)

playAct III: Air: Golden columns, fair and bright (Zadok)

playAct III: Praise the Lord with harp and tongue! (Double Chorus)

playAct III: Recitative: Gold now is common on our happy shore (Solomon)

playAct III: Air: How green our fertile pastures look! (Solomon)

playAct III: Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell! (Queen of Sheba)

playAct III: Air: Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba)

playAct III: Recitative: Adieu, fair queen, and in thy breast (Solomon)

playAct III: Duet: Ev'ry joy, that wisdom knows (Solomon, Queen of Sheba)

playAct III: The name of the wicked shall quickly be past (Chorus of Israelites)

playApplause

BBC Music Magazine

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.”

Gramophone Magazine

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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