George Frideric Handel Juergen Budday Michael Chance - GF Handel Solomon Oratorio in English historically accurate Chance Argenta Reviol Podger Balbach Maulbronn Choir Hannoversche Hofkapelle Budday (41 tracks)

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G.F. Handel: Solomon (Oratorio in English, historically accurate) / Chance, Argenta, Reviol, Podger, Balbach, Maulbronn Choir, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Budday

George Frideric Handel, Juergen Budday, Michael Chance
G.F. Handel: Solomon (Oratorio in English, historically accurate) / Chance, Argenta, Reviol, Podger, Balbach, Maulbronn Choir, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Budday
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Intrada - Ouverture
2. The Priests Your Harps and Cymbols Sound
3. Air - Levite - Praise Ye the Lord for all his mercies past
4. The Priests - WIth pious heart resound your maker's name
5. Solomon - Almighty pow'r, who rul'st the earth and skies
6. Zadok - Imperial Solomon, thy pray'rs are heard
7. Zadok - Sacred raptures cheer my breast
8. The Israelites - Throughout the land Jehovahs' praise
9. Solomon - Bless'd be the Lord - What though I trace each hearb and flow'r
10. Solomon - And see my Queen, my wedded love
11. Queen - Bless'd the day when first myeyes
12. Solomon & Queen - Thou fair inhabitant of Nile - Welcome as the dawn of day
13. Queen - When thou art absent from my sight - With thee th'undshelter'd moor I'd
14. Chorus - May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours
15. Corus - From the censer curling rise
16. Solomon - Prais'd be the lord - When the sun o'er yonder hills pours in tides th
17. Solomon - My sovereign liege two women stand - Admit them straight
18. Harlots & Solomon - Words are weak to paint my fears
Track Listings (23) - Disc #2
1. Solomon & Second Harlot - What says the other to th'imputed charge
2. Second Harlot - Thy sentence, great king, is prudent
3. First Harlot - Can I see my infant gor'd
4. Solomon - Israel, attend to what your king shall say
5. First Harlot & Solomon - Thrice bless'd be the king for he's good and he's wise
6. The Israelites - From the east unto the west
7. Zadok - From morn to eve I could enraptur'd sing
8. First Harlot - No more shall armed bands our hopes destroy
9. The Priests - Swell, swell the full chorus to Solomon's praise
10. Sinfonia - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
11. Queen of Sheba & Solomon - From Arabia's spicy shores
12. Queen of Sheba - Ev'ry sight these eyes behold
13. Solomon & Chorus - Sweep, sweep the string, to sooth the royal fair
14. Solomon & Chorus - Now a diff'rent measure try - shake the dome
15. Solomon & Chorus - Then at once from rage remove
16. Solomon & Chorus - Next the tortur'd soul release - thus rolling surges rise
17. Queen of Sheba -Thy harmony's divine, great king
18. Levite - Pious King, and virtuous queen
19. Zadok - Thrice happy king, to have achiev'd
20. Chorus - Praise the lord with harp and tongue
21. Queen of Sheba - May peace in Salem ever dwell
22. Solomon - Adieu, fair queen
23. Grand Chorus - The name of the wicked shall quickly be past

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The recording of an historically accurate performance in English, which took place at the UNESCO World Heritage Site - the abbey at Monastery Maulbronn (Germany) - by Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach. The abbey, founded by Cistercian monks in the year 1147, is the only completely conserved mediaeval complex north of the Alps.

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