Handel: Saul

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Release Date: 1st Aug 1991
Catalogue No: 4262652
Label: Philips
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 1

Work length1:12:40

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Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Donna Brown (soprano), Neil Mackie (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass (vocal)), Ruth Holton (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Philip Slane (tenor)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Allegro

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Larghetto

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Allegro (Reprise)

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Andante larghetto

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"How excellent thy name, O Lord"

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"An infant rais'd by thy command...Along the monster atheist strode"

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"The youth inspir'd by Thee, O Lord"

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"How excellent thy name, O Lord" (Reprise)

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"He comes...O godlike youth!"

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"Behold, O King, the brave victorious youth"

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"O King, your favours with delight I take...O early piety!

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"What abject thoughts a Prince can have...Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow"

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"Birth and fortune I despise!"

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"Go on, illustrious pair!...While yet thy tide of blood runs high"

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"Thou, Merab, first in birth... My soul rejects the thought...See, see with what a scornful air... Ah! lovely youth!"

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Symphony..."Already see the daughters...Welcome, welcome mighty King!"

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"What do I hear?... David his ten thousands slew...To him ten thousands!"

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"With rage I shall burst his praises to hear!"

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"Imprudent women!"

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"Fell rage and black despair possessed"

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"This but the smallest part of harmony...By thee this universal frame"

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"Rack'd with infernal pains"

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"O Lord, whose mercies"...Symphony

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"'Tis all in vain...A serpent in my bosom warm'd...Has he escaped my rage?"

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"Capricious man"

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"O filial piety!"

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"No, no cruel father, no!"

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"O Lord, whose providence ever wakes for their defence"

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"Preserve him for the glory of thy name"

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Audience Applause Act 1

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2

Work length43:36

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John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Donna Brown (soprano), Alastair Miles (bass (vocal)), Simon Oberst (bass (vocal))
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

"Envy! Eldestborn of hell!

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"Ah! dearest friend"

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"But sooner Jordan's stream, I swear"

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"O strange vicissitude!"

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"Such haughty beauties"

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"My father comes...Hast thou obey'd my orders"

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"Sin not, o King, against the youth"

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"As great Jehovah lives"

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"From cities storm'd, and battles won"

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"Appear, my friend"

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"Your words, O King...Yes he shall wed my daughter!"

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"A Father's will"

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"O fairest of ten thousand fair... Is there a man"

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Symphony

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"Thy father is as cruel"

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"At persecution I can laugh"

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"Whom dost thou seek?"

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"No, no, let the guilty tremble"

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"Mean as he was"

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"Author of peace"

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Symphony (Reprise)

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"The time at length is come...Where is the son of Jesse"

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"O fatal consequence of rage"

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Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3

Work length41:20

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Richard Savage (bass (vocal)), Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), Neil Mackie (tenor), Donna Brown (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Alastair Miles (bass (vocal)), Philip Salmon (tenor), Philip Slane (tenor)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

"Wretch that I am...'Tis said, here lives a woman...With me what would'st thou?"

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"Infernal Spirits"

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"Why hast thou forc'd me from the realms of peace"

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Symphony

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"Whence comest thou?...Impious wretch, of race accurst"

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March

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"Mourn Israel"

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"O let it not in Gath be heard"

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"From this unhappy day"

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"Brave Jonathan his bow ne'er drew"

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"Eagles were not so swift as they"

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"In sweetest harmony"

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"O fatal Day"

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"Ye men of Judah, weep no more"

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"Gird on thy sword"

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Audience Applause Act 3

Work length0:28

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1989-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Handel: Saul

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