HANDEL / CHRISTOPHERS / SIXTEEN
product information
Condition: New,
UPC: 8280216121214,
Publication Date: 09/09/2014,
Type: COMPACT DISC,
Style: CLASSICAL/CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS,
description
tracks
ACT ONEOverture
Scene 1
Accompagnato (Zebul) It Must Be So, Or These Vile Ammonites - Air (Zebul) Pour Forth No More Unheeded Pray'rs
(Chorus Of Israelites) No More To Ammon's God And King
Scene 2
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) But Jephtha Comes. Kind Heav'n, Assist Our Plea - Air (Jephtha) Virtue My Soul Shall Still Embrace
Recitative (Storgè) 'Twill Be A Painful Separation, Jephtha - Air (Storgè) In Gentle Murmurs Will I Mourn
Scene 3
Recitative (Hamor) Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Air (Hamor) Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish
Recitative (Hamor) Happy This Embassy, My Charming Iphis - Air (Hamor) Dull Delay, In Piercing Anguish
Recitative (Hamor) I Go; My Soul, Inspir'd By Thy Command - Duet (Iphis, Hamor) These Labours Past, How Happy We!
Scene 4
Recitative (Jephtha) What Mean These Doubtful Fancies Of The Brain? - Accompagnato (Jephtha) If, Lord, Sustain'd By Thy Almighty Pow'r - Recitative (Jephtha) 'Tis Said
(Chorus Of Israelites) O God, Behold Our Sore Distress
Scene 5
Recitative (Storgè) Some Dire Event Hangs O'er Our Heads - Air (Storgè) Scenes Of Horror, Scenes Of Woe
Scene 6
Recitative (Iphis, Storgè) Say, My Dear Mother, Whence These Piercing Cries - Air (Iphis) The Smiling Dawn Of Happy Days
Scene 7
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply - (Chorus Of Israelites) When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke
ACT TWO
Scene 1
Recitative (Hamor) Glad Tidings Of Great Joy To Thee, Dear Iphis
(Chorus Of Israelites) Cherub And Seraphim, Unbodied Forms
Air (Hamor) Up The Dreadful Steep Ascending
Recitative (Iphis) 'Tis Well - Air (Iphis) Tune The Soft Melodious Lute
Scene 2
Recitative (Jephtha) Heav'n Smiles Once More On His Repentant People - Air (Jephtha) His Mighty Arm, With Sudden Blow
(Chorus Of Israelites) In Glory High, In Might Serene
Scene 3
Symphony
Recitative (Iphis) Hail, Glorious Conqueror! Much Lov'd Father, Hail! - Air (Iphis) Welcome As The Cheerful Light - (Chorus Of Virgins) Welcome Thou, Whose Deeds Conspire
Recitative (Jephtha) Horror! Confusion! Harsh This Music Graters - Air (Jephtha) Open Thy Marble Jaws, O Tomb
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Why Is My Brother Thus Afflicted?
Accompagnato & Air (Storgè) First Perish Thou, And Perish All The World!
Recitative (Hamor) If Such Thy Cruel Purpose, Lo, Your Friend - Air (Hamor) On Me Let Blind Mistaken Zeal
Recitative (Zebul, Jephtha) Such, Jephtha, Was The Haughty King's Reply - (Chorus Of Israelites) When His Loud Voice In Thunder Spoke
Scene 4
Quartet (Storgè, Hamor, Jephtha, Zebul) O Spare Your Daughter
Recitative (Iphis) Such News Flies Swift. I've Heard The Mournful Cause - Accompagnato (Iphis) For Joys So Vast Too Little Is The Price
Air (Iphis) Happy They; This Vital Breath
Accompagnato (Jephtha) Deeper And Deeper Still, Thy Goodness, Child
ACT THREE
Scene 1
Air (Jephtha) Hide Thou Thy Hated Beams, O Sun, In Clouds
Accompagnato (Jephtha) A Father, Off'ring Up His Only Child - Air (Jephtha) Waft Her, Angels, Through The Skies
Accompagnato (Iphis) Ye Sacred Priests, Whose Hands Ne'er Yet Were Stain'd - Air (Iphis) Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs And Floods
(Chorus Of Priests) Doubtful Fear And Rev'rent Awe
Sinfonia
notes
Recorded January 2014.Comes in CD fatbox with 40 page booklet containing liner notes, synopsis and libretto. Fatbox inside slipcase.
credits
Alto Vocals – - Christopher Royall , - Daniel Collins (5) , - David Clegg , - Ian AitkenheadBass Vocals – - Ben Davies (5) , - Eamonn Dougan , - Stuart Young (2) , - Tim Jones *
Bass Vocals, Baritone Vocals [Zebul] – - Matthew Brook
Bassoon – - Jeremy Ward , - Zoe Shevlin
Cello – - Andrew Skidmore , - Imogen Seth-Smith
Chorus, Orchestra – - The Sixteen
Composed By – - George Frideric Handel *
Conductor, Liner Notes – - Harry Christophers
Countertenor Vocals [Hamor] – - Robin Blaze
Design – - Andrew Giles (3)
Engineer – - Mike Hatch
Flute – - Christine Garratt
Harp – - Frances Kelly
Harpsichord – - Alastair Ross
Horn – - Anneke Scott , - Joseph Walters
Libretto By – - Thomas Morell
Liner Notes – - Ruth Smith (2)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Storgè] – - Susan Bickley
Oboe – - Catherine Latham , - Hannah McLaughlin , - Lars Henriksson (2)
Organ – - Julian Perkins
Painting [Cover] – - Sir John Everett Millais *
Producer – - Mark Brown (4)
Producer [Production Assistant] – - Hugo Long , - Robin Hawkins (3)
Soprano Vocals – - Alexandra Kidgell , - Charlotte Mobbs , - Grace Davidson , - Julie Cooper , - Katy Hill , - Kirsty Hopkins
Soprano Vocals [Angel] – - Grace Davidson
Soprano Vocals [Iphis] – - Sophie Bevan
Tenor Vocals – - Jeremy Budd , - Mark Dobell , - Simon Berridge , - Tom Raskin
Tenor Vocals [Jephtha] – - James Gilchrist
Theorbo – - David Miller (7)
Trumpet – - Christopher Pigram , - Robert Farley
Viola – - Martin Kelly (3) , - Stefanie Heichelheim
Violin – - Daniel Edgar , - Ellen O'Dell , - Graham Cracknell , - Henrietta Wayne , - Huw Daniel , - Jane Gordon , - Jean Paterson , - Nia Lewis , - Rebecca Miles , - Sarah Sexton , - Theresa Caudle
Violone – - Jan Spencer
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Phonographic Copyright The Sixteen Productions LtdCopyright The Sixteen Productions Ltd
Recorded At St Augustinex27s Church, Kilburn
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