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Saul HWV 53

Libretto: Charles Jennens
René Jacobs, Concerto Köln, RIAS Kammerchor, Emma Bell (Soprano), Finnur Bjarnason (Tenor), Gidon Saks (Bass-baritone), Henry Waddington (Baritone), Jeremy Ovenden (Tenor), Lawrence Zazzo (Countertenor), Michael Slattery (Tenor), Rosemary Joshua (Soprano)
℗ 2006

  • Symphony

    • Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro - Menuet
      08:00

  • Act I

    • 1. Chorus "How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord"
      02:37
    • 2. Air "An Infant Raised by Thy Command" - Trio "Along the Monster Atheist Strode"
      02:09
    • 3. "The Youth Inspired by Thee, O Lord" - Chorus "How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord"
      03:56
    • 4. "He Comes, He Comes!" - Air "O God-like Youth!" - Behold, O King, the Brave, Victorious Youth
      03:38
    • 5. Air "O King, Your Favours With Delight" - "Oh Early Piety!"
      05:22
    • 6. Air "What Abject Thoughts a Prince Can Have!" - "Yet Think, On Whom This Honour You Bestow"
      02:14
    • 7. Air "Birth and Fortune I Despise!"
      04:57
    • 8. "Go On, Illustrious Pair!" - Air "While Yet Thy Tide of Blood Runs High"
      02:45
    • 9. "Thou, Merab, First In Birth, First In Honour" - Air "My Soul Rejects the Thought With Scorn" / Air "See, With What a Scornful Air" / Air "Ah, Lovely Youth, Wast Thou Designed"
      03:20
    • 10. "Symphony" - "Already See the Daughters of the Land" / Scene III. Chorus "Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King!"
      02:47
    • 11. "What Do I Hear?" - Chorus "David His Ten Thousands Slew" /"To Him Ten Thousands" / Air "With Rage I Shall Start Burst His Praises to Hear"
      02:18
    • 12. "Imprudent Women!" - Air "Fell Rage and Black Despair Possessed"
      02:59
    • 13. "This But the Smallest Part of Harmony" - "By Thee This Universal Frame"
      02:47
    • 14. "Racked With Infernal Pains" - Air "O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless"
      03:52
    • 15. Symphony - "Tis All in Vain, His Fury Still Continues"
      02:15
    • 16. Air "A Serpent, In My Bosom Warmed" - "Has He Escaped My Rage?"
      02:22
    • 17. Air "Capricious Man"
      03:38
    • 18. "O Filial Pity!" - Air "No, Cruel Father, No!"
      03:00
    • 19. Air "O Lord, Whose Providence" - Chorus "Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name"
      03:37

  • Act II

    • 1. Chorus "Envy! Eldest Born of Hell!"
      02:48
    • 2. "Ah! Dearest Friend" Air "But Sooner Jordan's Stream, I Swear"
      02:36
    • 3. "Oh Strange Vicissitude!" - Air "Such Haughty Beauties Rather Move"
      05:08
    • 4. "My Father Comes" - Scene III. "Hast Thou Obeyed My Orders"
      00:43
    • 5. Air "Sin Not, O King, Against the Youth" / Air "As Great Jehovah Lives" / Air "From Cities Stormed, and Battles Won"
      04:55
    • 6. "Appear, My Friend" / Air "Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart" / "Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter!"
      01:49
    • 7. "A Father's Will Has Authorised My Love" / Duet "O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair" / Chorus "Is There a Man"
      04:19
    • 8. Symphony
      04:35
    • 9. "Thy Father Is As Cruel" / Duet "At Persecution I Can Laugh"
      01:37
    • 10. "Whom Dost Thou Seek" / Air "No, No Let the Guilty Tremble"
      02:14
    • 11. "Mean As He Was, He Is My Brother Now" / Air "Author of Peace, Who Canst Controul"
      03:33
    • 12. Symphony
      01:06
    • 13. "The Time At Length Is Come" / "Where Is the Son of Jesse?"
      01:30
    • 14. Chorus "Oh Fatal Consequence of Rage"
      04:46

  • Act III

    • 1. "Wretch That I Am" / "Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman"
      03:15
    • 2. "With Me What Would'st Thou" / Air "Infernal Spirits"
      02:50
    • 3. "Why Hast Thou Forced Me from the Reals of Peace"
      02:42
    • 4. Symphony
      00:34
    • 5. "Whence Comest Thou?" / Air "Impious Wretch, of Race Accurst!"
      02:53
    • 6. March
      03:03
    • 7. Chorus "Mourn, Israel"
      03:27
    • 8. Air "Oh Let It Not In Gath Be Heard"
      02:07
    • 9. Air "From This Unhappy Day"
      02:39
    • 10. "Eagles were not so swift as they"
      02:13
    • 11. Air "In Sweetest Harmony They Lived!" / "O Fatal Day!" / "Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More!"
      09:07
    • 12. Chorus "Gird On Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might"
      05:01

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