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Saul HWV 53

Libretto: Charles Jennens
Sir Philip Stevens Ledger, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Daniels (Tenor), Christopher Gillett (Tenor), Gareth Morrell (Tenor), Margaret Marshall (Soprano), Martyn Hill (Tenor), Matthew Best (Bass), Paul Esswood (Countertenor), Robert Tear (Tenor), Sally Burgess (Soprano), Thelma Owen (Harp), Thomas Allen (Baritone)
℗ 2002
Remastered
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I: Sinfonia. Allegro - Larghetto
      12:52
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 1: Chorus. "How Excellent Thy Name, Oh Lord" (Israelites)
      03:18
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 1: Aria. "An Infant Rais'd by Thy Command" (Soprano)
      01:27
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 1: Chorus. "Along the Monster Atheist Strode" (Israelites)
      01:14
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 1: Chorus. "The Youth Inspired by Thee, Oh Lord" (Israelites)
      03:25
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 1: Chorus. "Hallelujah" (Israelites)
      02:05
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Recitative. "He Comes, he Comes!" (Michal)
      00:05
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "Oh God-Like Youth" (Michal)
      03:22
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Recitative. "Behold, Oh King" (Abner, Saul, David)
      00:58
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "Oh King, Your Favours with Delight" (David)
      06:24
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Recitative. "Oh Early Piety" (Jonathan)
      00:31
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "What Abject Thoughts a Prince Can Have!" (Merab)
      02:28
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Recitative. "Yet Think, on Whom This Honour You Bestow" (Merab)
      00:19
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "Birth and Fortune I Despise" (Jonathan)
      05:10
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Recitative. "Thou, Merab, First in Birth" (Saul, Merab)
      00:25
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "My Soul Rejects the Thought with Scorn" (Merab)
      01:34
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "See, See, with a Scournful Air" (Michal)
      01:12
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 2: Aria. "Ah! Lovely Youth" (Michal)
      01:00
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Sinfonia. Andante - Allegro
      01:15
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Recitative. "Already See the Daughters of the Land" (Michal)
      00:23
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Chorus. "Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King!" (Israelites)
      01:43
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Accompagnato. "What Do I Hear?" (Saul)
      00:23
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Chorus. "David His Ten Thousands Slew" (Israelites)
      00:38
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Accompagnato. "To Him Ten Thousands" (Saul)
      00:14
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 3: Aria. "With Rage I Shall Burst" (Saul)
      01:24
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 4: Recitative. "Imprudent Women !" (Jonathan, Michal)
      00:56
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 4: Aria. "Fell Rage and Black Despair Posses'd" (Michal)
      03:24
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Recitative. "Racked with Infernal Pains" (Abner)
      00:20
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Aria. "O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" (David)
      04:04
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Sinfonia
      01:48
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Recitative. "Tis All in Vain" (Jonathan)
      00:24
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Aria. "A Serpent, in My Bosom Warmed" (Saul)
      02:09
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Recitative. "Has He Escaped My Rage?" (Saul)
      00:25
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Aria. "Capricious Man, in Humour Lost" (Merab)
      04:20
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Accompagnato. "Oh Filial Piety!" (Jonathan)
      01:51
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Aria. "No, No Cruel Father, No!" (Jonathan)
      01:48
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene 5: Chorus. "Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name" (Israelites)
      03:01
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 1: Chorus. "Envy! Eldest Born of Hell!" (Israelites)
      02:57
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 2: Recitative. "Ah! Dearest Friend" (Jonathan)
      00:37
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 2: Aria. "But Sooner Jordan's Stream" (Jonathan)
      02:26
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 2: Recitative. "Oh Strange Vicissitude" (David, Jonathan)
      00:49
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 2: Aria. "Such Haughty Beauties Rather Move" (David)
      05:16
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 2: Recitative. "My Father Comes" (Jonathan)
      00:16
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 3: Recitative. "Hast Thou Obey'd My Orders" (Saul, Jonathan)
      00:39
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 3: Aria. "Sin Not, Oh King, Against the Youth" (Jonathan)
      02:01
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 3: Aria. "As Great Jehovah Lives" (Saul)
      01:50
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 3: Aria. "From Cities Stormed" (Jonathan)
      02:18
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 4: Recitative. "Appear, My Friend" (Jonathan, Saul)
      00:37
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 4: Aria. "Your Words, Oh King" (David)
      01:14
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 4: Recitative. "Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter" (Saul)
      00:30
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 5: Recitative. "A Father's Will Has Authorized My Love" (Michal)
      00:35
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 5: Duet. "Oh Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair" (Michal, David)
      03:17
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 5: Chorus. "Is There a Man?" (Israelites)
      01:50
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 6: Sinfonia. Largo - Allegro
      05:21
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 6: Recitative. "Thy Father Is as Cruel..." (David)
      00:36
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 6: Duet. "At Persecution I Can Laugh" (David, Michal)
      01:31
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 7: Recitative. "Whom Dost Thou Seek?" (Michal, Doeg)
      00:41
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 7: Aria. "No, No Let the Guilty Tremble" (Michal)
      02:04
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 8: Sinfonia. Allegro
      01:24
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 9: Accompagnato. "The Time at Length Is Come" (Saul)
      00:39
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 10: Recitative. "Where Is the Son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan)
      01:14
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act II, Scene 10: Chorus. "O Fatal Consequence" (Israelites)
      04:33
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 1: Accompagnato. "Wretch That I am!" (Saul)
      02:33
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 1: Recitative. "Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman" (Saul)
      00:56
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 2: Recitative. "With Me What Would'st Thou?" (Witch, Saul)
      00:50
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 2: Aria. "Infernal Spirits" (Witch)
      01:54
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 3: Accompagnato. "Why Hast Thou Forced Me" (Samuel, Saul)
      03:44
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 4: Sinfonia. Allegro
      00:46
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 4: Recitative. "Whence Comst Thou?" (David, An Amalekite)
      01:07
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 4: Aria. "Impious Wrecht" (David)
      01:56
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Dead March
      04:08
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Chorus. "Mourn, Israel" (Israelites)
      03:33
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Aria. "Oh Let Is Not in Gath Beheard" (High Priest)
      02:49
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Aria. "From This Unhappy Day" (Merab)
      02:51
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Aria. "Brave Jonathan" (Merab)
      00:30
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Chorus. "Eagles Were Not so Swift as They Lived" (Israelites)
      00:26
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Aria. "In Sweetest Harmony" (Michal)
      04:28
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Solo and Chorus. "Oh Fatal Day!" (David, Israelites)
      04:04
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Recitative. "Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More" (Abner)
      00:34
    • Saul, HWV 53, Act III, Scene 5: Chorus. "Gird on Thy Sword" (Israelites)
      06:30

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