Oratorios: Messiah / Saul / Alexander's Feast

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CD Details

Number of Discs: 9
Released: August 26, 2016
Originally Released: 2016
Label: Warner Classics

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Symphony (1. Teil) [3:36]
2.Cofort Ye [3:02]
3.Ev'ry Valley [3:47]
4.and the Glory of the Lord [2:31]
5.Thus Saith the Lord [1:33]
6.But Who May Abide [4:08]
7.and He Shall Purify [3:12]
8.Behold, a Virgin Shall Conceive [0:32]
9.O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings [6:18]
10.For Behold, Darkness Shall Cover the Earth [1:40]
11.The People That Walked in Darkness [3:26]
12.For Unto Us a Child Is Born [5:07]
13.Pifa [1:00]
14.There Were Shepherds [0:14]
15.and Io, the Angel of the Lord [0:23]
16.and the Angel Said Unto Them [0:37]
17.and Suddenly There Was with the Angel [0:18]
18.Glory to God [2:09]
19.Rejoice Greatly [4:43]
20.Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind [0:36]
21.He Shall Feed His Flock [5:54]
22.His Yoke Is Easy [2:53]
23.Behold the Lamb of God (2. Teil) [2:49]
24.He Was Despised 11:54

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Surely, He Hath Borne Our Griefs [2:08]
2.and with His Stripes [1:57]
3.All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray [3:53]
4.All They That See Him [0:52]
5.He Trusted in God [2:30]
6.Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart [1:44]
7.Behold, and See [1:28]
8.He Was Cut Off [0:31]
9.But Thou Didst Not Leave [2:45]
10.Lift Up Your Heads [2:57]
11.Unto Which of the Angels [0:15]
12.Let All the Angels of God [1:34]
13.Thou Art Gone Up on High [3:17]
14.The Lord Gave the Word [1:15]
15.How Beautiful Are the Feet of Them [2:12]
16.Their Sound Is Gone Out [1:25]
17.Why Do the Nations [3:06]
18.Let Us Break Their Bonds Asunder [1:44]
19.He That Dwelleth in Heaven [0:14]
20.Thou Shalt Brek Them [1:59]
21.Hallelujah [3:41]
22.I Know My Redeemer Liveth (3. Teil) [6:01]
23.Since By Man Came Death [1:58]
24.Behold, I Tell You a Mystery [0:37]
25.The Trumpet Shall Sound [9:11]
26.Then Shall Be Brought to Pass [0:18]
27.O Death, Where Is Thy Sting [1:00]
28.But Thanks Be to God [2:05]
29.If God Be for Us [4:54]
30.Worthy Is the Lamb [6:32]

Tracks on Disc 3:

1.Symphony [4:01]
2.How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (1. Teil) [2:50]
3.An Infant Reis'd By Thy Command [1:36]
4.Along the Monster Atheist Strode [1:01]
5.The Youth Inspir'd By the, O Lord - How Excellent Thy Name O Lord [4:16]
6.He Comes, He Comes ! - O Godlike Youth! [3:03]
7.Behold, O King - O King, Your Favours with Delight [2:46]
8.O Early Piety! O Modest Merit! [0:27]
9.What Abject Thoughts - Yet Think, on Whom This Honour You Bestow [2:26]
10.Birth and Fortune I Despise! [5:19]
11.Tou, Merab, First in Birth - My Soul Rejects the Thought [1:49]
12.See, with What a Scornful Air - Ah! Lovely Youth! [2:04]
13.Symphony [1:08]
14.Already See the Daughters of the Land [0:16]
15.Welcome, Welcome Mighty King! - Saul, Who Hast Thy Thousands Slain [1:33]
16.What do I hear? - David his ten thousands slew - To him ten thousands! - With rage I shall burst his
17.Praises to Hear! [2:46]
18.Imprudent Women! - Fell Rage and Black Despair Possess'd [3:40]
19.Rack'd with Infernal Pains, Ev'n Now the King Comes Forth [0:19]
20.O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless O'er All Thy Works Prevail [3:20]
21.'Tis All in Vain [0:18]
22.A Serpent, in My Bosom Warm'd - Has He Escap'd My Rage? [2:36]
23.Capricious Man, in Humour Lost [4:11]
24.Oh Lilial Piety! Oh Sacred Friendship! - No Cruel Father, No! [3:12]
25.Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name, Thy People's Safety [2:35]
26.Envy! Eldest - Born of Hell! (2. Teil) [2:06]
27.Ah, Dearest Friend - But Sooner Jordan's Stream - My Father Comes [3:22]
28.Hast Thou Boey'd My Orders - Sin Not, O King, Against the Youth [1:55]
29.As Great Jehovah Lives, I Swar, the Youth Shall Not Be Slain [1:16]
30.From Cities Storm'd, and Battles Won, What Glory An Accure? [2:07]

Tracks on Disc 4:

1.Appear, My Friend - No More Imagine Danger [0:38]
2.Your Word, O King, My Loyal Heart with Double Ardour Fire [1:09]
3.Yed, He Shall Wed My Daughter! [0:32]
4.A Father's Will Has Authoriz'd My Love [0:34]
5.O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair [2:46]
6.Is There a Man, Who All His Ways Directs, His God Alone to Please? [1:33]
7.Concerto [2:58]
8.Thy Father Is a S Cruel, and As False, As Thou Art Kind and True - at Persecution I Can Laugh [2:04]
9.Whom dost thou seek? and who has sent thee hither - No, no, let the guilty tremble at ev'ry thought of
10.Danger Near [2:32]
11.Mean as he was, he is my brother now - Author of peace [3:51]
12.Symphony [1:16]
13.The Time at Length Is Come [0:50]
14.Where Is the Son of Jesse? [1:13]
15.O Fatal Consequence of Rage, By Reason Uncontroll'd [2:37]
16.Wretch That I Am! - 'Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman [3:29]
17.With Me What Wouldst Thou? - Infernal Spirits, By Whose Por'r [2:30]
18.Why Hast Thou Forc'd Me from the Realms of Peace [3:15]
19.Symphony [0:39]
20.Whence Com'st Tou? - Impiour Wretch, of Race Accurst! [3:26]
21.Dead March - Elegy on the Death of Saul and Jonathan [3:02]
22.Mourn, Israel, Mourn [3:49]
23.Oh Let It Not in Gath Be Heard - from This Unhappy Day No More, Ye Gilboan Hills [5:59]
24.Eagles Were Not So Wift As They [0:23]
25.In Sweetest Harmony They Liv'd - Oh Fataly Day! [9:37]
26.Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More [0:37]
27.Gird on Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might [5:42]

Tracks on Disc 5:

1.Ouvert?re [6:30]
2.'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia Won By Philip's Warlike Son [1:02]
3.Happy Pair! Non But the Brave Deserves the Fairb [5:26]
4.Timotheus, Plac'd on High Amid the Tuenful Quire [0:26]
5.The Song Began from Jove [1:01]
6.The List'ning Crowd Admire the Lofty Sound [2:09]
7.With Ravish'd Ears the Monarch Hears [3:29]
8.The Praise of Bacchus Then the Sweet Musician Sung [0:33]
9.Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young - Bacchus' Blessings Are a Treasure [4:23]
10.Sooth'd with the Sound, the King Grew Vain [0:43]
11.He Chose a Mournful Muse [1:14]
12.He Sung Darius, Great and Good, By Too Severe a Fate Fall'n [3:02]
13.With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate [1:00]
14.Behold Darius, Great and Good, By Too Severe a Fate Fall'n [2:46]
15.The Mighty Master Smil'd to See That Love Was in the Next Degree [0:31]
16.Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures Soon He Sooth'd the Soul [3:02]
17.Was, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble [4:58]
18.The Many Rend the Skieks with Loud Apllause [3:55]
19.The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain [6:35]
20.The Many Rend the Skies with Loud Apllause [3:56]

Tracks on Disc 6:

1.Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again! - Break His Bands of Sleep Asunder - Hark, Hark! the Horrid Sound [2:39]
2.Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries [8:03]
3.Give the Vengeance Due to the Vailant Crew [1:44]
4.The Princes Apllaud with a Furious Joy [2:04]
5.Thai Led the Way, to Light Him to His Prey - the Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy [5:20]
6.Thus, long ago, ere heaving Bellow learned to blow - At last divine Cecilia came, inventress of the
7.Vocal Frame [5:48]
8.Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize [0:18]
9.Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize, or Both Divide the Crown [3:24]
10.Overture - from Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony - When Nature Underneath a Heap of Jarring Atoms Lay [8:42]
11.From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony [3:49]
12.What Passion Cannot Music Raise and Quell! [8:36]
13.The Trumpet's Oud Clagor Excites Us to Arms [3:54]
14.March [1:49]
15.The Soft Complaining Flue in Dying Notes [4:38]
16.Sharp Violins Proclaim Their Jealous Pang and Desperation [4:29]
17.But Oh! What Art Can Teach - the Sacred Organ's Praise! [4:03]
18.Orpheus Could Lead the Savage Race [1:48]
19.But Gright Cecilia Rais'd the Wonder High'r [0:35]
20.As from the Pow'r of Sacred Lays the Spheres Began to Move [7:01]

Tracks on Disc 7:

1.Overture [4:31]
2.Vain, Fluctuating State of Human Empire! (1. Teil) [5:05]
3.Thou, God Most High [4:06]
4.The Fate of Babylan, I Fear, Is Nigh - O Much Belov'd God and Man! Say [1:19]
5.Lament Not Hus, O Queen, in Vain! [4:49]
6.Behold, By Persia's Hero Made in Ample from [2:57]
7.Well May They Laugh, from Meagre Famine Safe - Oh Memory! Still Bitter to My Soul! [1:28]
8.Oppress'd with Never - Ceasing Grief [3:09]
9.Dry Those Anavailing Tears [2:37]
10.Be Comforted - Mehtought, As on the Bank of Deep Euphrates - Now Tell Me, Gobrias [4:07]
11.Behold the Monstrous Human Beast [3:15]
12.Can you then think it strange - Great God! Who, yet but darkly known - M friends, be confident, and
13.Boldly Enter... [4:49]
14.All Empires Upon God Depend [3:40]
15.Oh Sacred Oracles of Thuth! [5:17]
16.Rejoice, my countrymen: The time draws near - For long ago, wohle ages ere this Cyrus was born - Thus
17.Saith the Lord... [3:07]
18.Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns [4:34]

Tracks on Disc 8:

1.Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign! [4:54]
2.For You, My Friends, the Nobles of My Court [1:01]
3.The Leafy Honours of the Field [8:17]
4.It Is the Custom, I May Say, the Law [1:54]
5.Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command [2:59]
6.They Tell You True [1:36]
7.Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forbear! [6:42]
8.By Slow Degrees the Wrath of God [4:44]
9.See, from his post Euphrates flies! - Why, faithless river, dost thou leave thy charge - Euphrates
10.Hath... (2. Teil) [6:23]
11.You See, My Friends, a Path Into the City Lies Open - Amaz'd to Find the Foe So Near [5:25]
12.To Arms, to Arms! No More Delay! [0:30]
13.Ye Tutelar Gods of Our Empire, Look Down [2:55]
14.Let the deep bowl thy praise confess - Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r? - Help, help the
15.King! - O Dire... [5:45]
16.Symphony - Ye Sages! Welcome Always to Your King - Alas! Too Hard a Task the King Imposes [2:41]
17.Oh Misery! Oh Terror! Hopeless Grief! [1:32]

Tracks on Disc 9:

1.Oh King, Live for Ever! - Art Thou That Daniel of the Jewish Captives? [1:44]
2.No! To thyself thy trifles be - Yet to obey his dread command - Thou, o king, hast lifted up thyself
3.Against the... [4:41]
4.Reard, Oh Son, My Flowing Tears [6:23]
5.Oh God of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide! - You, Gobrias, Lead Directly to the Palace [5:28]
6.Oh Glorious Prince! [4:54]
7.Alternate Hopes and Fears Distract My Mind (3. Teil) [4:23]
8.Fein Would I Hope - Is There Not Room for Hope? - Can the Black Aethiop Change His Skin? [2:19]
9.My Hopes Revive, Here Arioch Comes [2:14]
10.Bel Boweth Down! [1:35]
11.I Thank Thee, Sesach - Martial Symphony [2:14]
12.To Pow'r Immortal My First Thanks Are Due [2:14]
13.Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias, to Find Out the Queen - Destructive War, Thy Limits Know [3:01]
14.Great Victor, at Your Feet I Bow [5:15]
15.Say, Venerable Prophet, Is There Aught in Cyru's Pow'r [0:48]
16.Tell It Out Among the Heathen, That the Lord Is King - Yes, I Will Build Thy City, God of Israel [3:31]
17.I Will Magnify Thee, Oh God My King! [5:34]

Product Description:

Handel: Oratorios (Messiah, Saul, Alexander's Feast, Belshazzar, Ode on St Cecilia's Day)(9CD) These five splendid works for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra were composed by Handel in the 1730s and 1740s. Treating both sacred and secular themes, they are inspired by the same dramatic genius that made Handel a master of opera. Conducting a dazzling array of soloists and Concentus Musicus Wien, the groundbreaking ensemble he established in the early 1950s, Nikolaus Harnoncourt unfolds their narratives with his customary flair, precision and immediacy.