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Oratorio in 3 acts, HWV 53. Recorded live at the Gottingen International Handel Festival, on May 18, 2019. David returns from battle carrying the head of the giant Goliath - in reward, King Saul promises him the hand of his horrified daughter Merab. But when David receives more popular praise than the king, Saul is consumed by jealousy. His daughter Michal advises David to appease the angry monarch with the soothing tensions of a harp. But Saul's rage is simply exacerbated, and he ultimately throws a spear at David. When he misses, Saul orders his son Jonathan to kill David... When setting this material from the Old Testament to music in 1738, George Frideric Handel worked for the first time with the librettist Charles Jennens, who later, for example, wrote the text for the Messiah. The work premiered on January 16, 1739, at the King's Theatre in Haymarket, London. Duration: 2 h 46 minutes.

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  • Album Saul
  • Artist Festspielorchester Göttingen
  • Release date 2020-06-19
  • Label ACCENT
  • Distributor VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP
  • Format CD (coffret)
  • EAN 4015023264144
  • Number of discs 3
  • Number of tracks 86

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Disc 1

  1. Symphony:allegro - larghetto- allegro - andante larghetto
  2. How excellent thy name, o Lord
  3. An infant rais"d by thy command
  4. Along the monster atheist strode
  5. The youth inspired by thee, o Lord
  6. How excellent thy name, o Lord
  7. He comes, he comes! - o godlike youth!
  8. Behold, o Kking, the brave, victorious youth
  9. O king, your favours with delight
  10. Oh early piety!
  11. What abject thoughts a prince can have!
  12. Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow
  13. Birth and fortune I despise!
  14. Go on, illustrious pair!
  15. While yet thy tide of blood runs high
  16. Thou, Merab, first in birth, be first in honour
  17. My soul rejects the thought with scorn
  18. See, with what a scornful air
  19. Ah, lovely youth, wast thou designed
  20. Symphony: andante allegro
  21. Already see the daughters of the land
  22. Welcome, welcome, mighty king!
  23. What do I hear?
  24. David his ten thousands slew
  25. To him ten thousands
  26. With rage I shall start burst his praises to hear
  27. Imprudent women
  28. Fell rage and black despair possessed
  29. This but the smallest part of harmony
  30. By the this universal frame
  31. Racked with infernal pains
  32. O Lord, whose mrcies numberless
  33. Symphony: largo
  34. Tis all in vain, his fury still continues
  35. A serpent, in my bosom warmed
  36. Has he escaped my rage?
  37. Capricious man
  38. O filial piety!
  39. No, cruel father, no!
  40. O Lord, whose providence
  41. Preserve him for the glory of thy name

Disc 2

  1. Envy! eldest born of hell!
  2. Ah! dearest friend
  3. But sooner Jordan" stream, I swear
  4. Oh strange vicissitude!
  5. Such haughty beauties rather move
  6. My father comes
  7. Hast thou obeyed my orders
  8. Sin not, o king, against the youth
  9. As great Jehovah live
  10. From cities stormed, and battles won
  11. Appear, my friend
  12. Your words, o king, my loyal heart
  13. Yes, he shall wed my daughter!
  14. A father"s will has authorized my love
  15. O fairest of ten thousand fair
  16. Is there a man
  17. Symphony: largo - allegro
  18. Thy father is as cruel
  19. At persecution I can laugh
  20. Whom dost thou seek
  21. No, no let the guilty tremble
  22. Mean as he was, he is my brother now
  23. Author of peace, who canst controul
  24. Symphony: allegro
  25. The time at lenght is come
  26. Where is the son of Jesse?
  27. Oh fatal consequence of rage

Disc 3

  1. Wretch that I am
  2. Tis said, here lives a woman
  3. With me what would"st thou
  4. Infernal spirits
  5. Why hast thou forced me from the
  6. Symphony: allegro
  7. Whence comest thou?
  8. Impious wretch, of race accurst!
  9. March: grave
  10. Mourn, Israel
  11. Oh let it not in gath be heard
  12. From this unhappy day
  13. Brave Jonathan his bow never drew
  14. Eagles were not so swift as they
  15. In sweetest harmony they lived!
  16. O fatal day!
  17. Ye men of Judah, weep no more!
  18. Gird on thy sword, thou man of might