HANDEL - MASTERWORKS (40 CD BOX)
 

CD1
Oratorio in three acts WV 70
1. Ouverture 5:30
2. Menuet 1:37
ACT 1
3. Accompagnato (Zebul): It must be so 1:30
4. Air (Zebul): Pour forth no more 4:58
5. Chorus: No more to Ammon's god and king 2:39
6. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): But Jephtha comes 1:05
7. Air (Jephtha): Virtue my soul shall still embrace 4:07
8. Recitative (Storge): Twill be a painful separation 0:30
9. Air (Storge) In gentle murmurs I will mourn 5:10
10. Recitative (Hamor): Happy this embassy 0:51
11. Air (Hamor): Dull delay, in piercing anguish 3:05
12. Recitative (Iphis): III suits the voice of love 0:30
13. Air (Iphis):Take the heart you fondly gave 3:57
14. Recitative (Hamor): I go, my soul 0:31
15. Duet (Iphis, Hamor): These labours past, how happy we 5:47
16. Recitative (Jephtha): What mean these doubtful fancies 0:56
17. Accompagnato (Jephtha): If, Lord, sustained 1:10
18. Chorus: O God, behold our sore distress 4:10
19. Recitative (Storge): Some dire event 0:28
20. Air (Strorge): Scenes of horror, scenes of woe 4:17
21. Recitative (Iphis, Storge): Say, my dear mother 0:59
22. Air (Iphis): The smiling dawn of happy days 3:18
23. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Such, Jephtha, was the haughty king's reply 0:29
24. Chorus: When his loud voice in thunder spoke 4:20

Total: 61:54

Jephtha: John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Zebul: Michael George, bass
Storge: Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano
Iphis: Christiane Oelze, soprano
Hamor: Axel Köhler, counter tenor
Angel: Julia Gooding, soprano
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Music Berlin, Marcus Creed, conductor

CD2
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
ACT 2
1. Recitative (Hamor): Glad things of great joy 1:19
2. Chorus: Cherub and Seraphim 3:07
3. Air (Hamor): Up the dreadful steep ascending 4:33
4. Recitative (Iphis): Tis well, haste, haste, ye maidens 0:23
5. Air(iphis): Tune the soft melodious lute 4:19
6. Recitative (Jephtha): Heav'n smiles once more 0:33
7. Air (Jephtha): His mighty arm 5:26
8. Chorus: In glory high 2:24
9. Symphony 1:13
10. Recitative (Iphis): Hail, glorious conqueror! 0:24
11. Air (Iphis): and Chorus: Welcome, as the cheerful light 3:57
12. Recitative (Jephtha): Horror!Confusion! 0:26
13. Air (Jephtha): Open thy marble jaws, O tomb 4:32
14. Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha): Why is my brother thus afflicted? 1:06
15. Accompagnato and Arioso (Storge): First perish thou 2:07
16. Recitative (Hamor): If such thy cruel purpose 0:23
17. Air (Hamor): On me let blind mistaken zeal 1:36
18. Quartet (Storge, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul): O spare your daughter! 2:47
19. Recitative (Iphis): Such news flies swift 0:30
20. Accompagnato (Iphis): For joys so vast 0:49
21. Air (Iphis): happy they! 3:40
22. Accompagnato (Jephtha): Deeper and deeper still 3:37
23. Chorus: How dark, O lord, are thy decrees! 7:09

Total: 56:25

Jephtha: John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Zebul: Michael George, bass
STorge: Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano
IPhis: Christiane Oelze, soprano
Hamor: Axel Köhler, counter tenor
Angel: Julia Gooding, soprano
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Music Berlin, Marcus Creed, conductor

CD3
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
ACT 3
1. Arioso (Jephtha): Hide thou thy hated beams 2:40
2. Accompagnato (Jephtha): A father,off'ring up 0:26
3. Air (Jephtha): Waft her, angels 4:06
4. Accompagnato (Iphis): Ye sacred priests 0:35
5. Air (Iphis): Farewell, ye limped springs 5:02
6. Chorus: (Priests): Doubtfull fear and reverend awe 3:42
7. Symphony 1:54
8. Recitative (Angel): Rise, Jephtha 1:10
9. Air (Angel): Iphis, shalt thou live 4:42
10. Arioso (Jephtha): For ever blessed be 1:31
11. Chorus: Theme sublime 3:25
12. Recitative (Zebul): Let me congratulate 0:30
13. Air (Zebul): Laud her, all ye virgin train 2:16
14. Recitative (Storge): O let me fold thee 0:20
15. Air (Storge): Sweet as sight to the blind 1:56
16. Recitative (Hamor): With transport Iphis
17. Recitative (Iphis): My faithfull Hamor 0:15
18. Quintet: All that is in Hamor mine 3:36
19. Chorus: Ye house of Gilead

Total: 41:48

Jephtha: John Mark Ainsley, tenor
Zebul: Michael George, Bass
Storge: Catherine Denley, mezzo-soprano
Iphis: Christiane Oelze, soprano
Hamor: Axel Köhler, counter tenor
Angel: Julia Gooding, soprano
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Music Berlin, Marcus Creed, conductor

CD4
Oratorio in three acts for soloists, choir & orchestra - Sung in German
1. Ouverture 6:08
ACT 1
2. Recitativo Nitocris: Ach, unstet eitles Los 4:41
3. Aria Nitocris: Du, Gott der Höh 3:39
4. recitativo Nitocris, Daniel: Das Schicksal Babylons 1:28
5. Aria Daniel: Wehklage nicht im eitlem Schmerz 4:27
6. Choir: Da seht, wie Persiens junger Held 2:35
7. Recitativo Gobrias, Cyrus: Uns gillt ihr Hohn 1:35
8. Aria Gobrias: Gebeugt von unheilbarem Schmerz 3:19
9. Aria Cyrus: Still' der eitlen Tränen Flut 2:26
10. Recitativo Cyrus, Gobrius: Ermanne dich 4:06
11. Aria Gobrius: O schau den Wüstling 3:19
12. Recititavo Cyrus: Befremdet's dich denn so 0:18
13. Aria Cyrus: Du Gott! Der, mir nur fern bekannt 2:38
14. Recititavo Cyrus: Freunde habt Zuversicht 0:49
15. Choir: Die Reiche stehn in Gottes Rat 3:07
16. Aria Daniel: O Heil'ges Buch 7:49
17. Choir: Singt, Himmel singt 4:08

Total: 56:30

Belsazar, King of Babylon: Peter Schreier, tenor
Nitocris, mother of Belsazar: Renate Frank-Reinecke, soprano
Cyrus, Persian King: Ute Trekel-Burckhardt, alto
Daniel, a Jewish prophet: Gisela Pohl, alto
Gobrias, Assyrian: Hermann Christian Polster, bass
Arioch: Joachim Vogt, tenor
A messeneger: Günther Beyer, bass
Berliner Singakademie
Kammerorchester Berlin, Dietrich Knothe

CD5
Oratorio in three acts for soloists, choir & orchestra - Sung in German
1. Ria Belsazar: Ein freudig Fest 4:49
2. Recitativo Belsazar, Nitocris: Für euch, o Freunde 1:00
3. Aria Nitocris: das falbe Laub 5:05
4. Recitativo Belsazar: Dies ist die Sitte 1:50
5. Choir of the Jews: Verwirf', o Herr 3:05
6. Recitativo Nitocris, Belsazar: Sie reden wahr 1:31
7. Duet Nitocris, Belsazar: O meines Lebens Lust 5:45
8. Choir of the Jews: Allmählich steigt Jehovas Zorn 4:44
ACT II
9. Choir: Seht, wie schnell der Euphrat flieht 6:29
10. Recitativo Cyrus: Ihr seht es, Freunde 0:48
11. Aria Cyrs: erstarrt, so nah den Feind zu seh'n 4:28
12. Choir: Voran, voran 0:32
13. Choir: Ihr schützenden Götter 2:56
14. Aria Belsazar: Kränzet den Becher rings im Kreis 3:04
15. Choir: Helft unserm Herrn 1:57
16. Recitativo Belsazar: Ruft meine Weisen 0:20
17. Sinfonia 1:47
18. Recitativo 1:12
19. Choir: O Missgeschick 1:41

Total: 53:06

Belsazar, King of Babylon: Peter Schreier, tenor
Nitocris, mother of Belsazar: Renate Frank-Reinecke, soprano
Cyrus, Persian King: Ute Trekel-Burckhardt, alto
Daniel, a Jewisch prophet: Gisela Pohl, alto
Gobrias, Assyrian: Hermann Christian Polster, bass
Arioch: Joachim Vogt,tenor
A messenger: Günther Beyer, bass
Berliner Singakademie
Kammerorchester Berlin, Dietrich Knothe
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