Leonardo García Alarcón

Solomon

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Solomon is now considered by interpreters and music lovers as one of the highlights of Handel's catalog. However, it was not always this way. Rarely in the British career of the composer did any performance of Solomon take place during his lifetime outside of London. A more than lukewarm success, then. But what were the reasons, when the formula of oratorios sung in English was meeting with great success? The obvious lack of theatricality in the libretto? A hint of audience fatigue? Was it the fear of no longer being surprised? Or the fear of alienating representatives of the Church, given the rumors of barely veiled erotic lines in the first and third acts? With his singers and instrumentalists, Leonardo García Alarcón offers us a flamboyant version here that would certainly have won over the most hesitant London listeners of 1749!

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Product information

Album Solomon
Artist Leonardo García Alarcón
Release date 2023-02-01
Label RICERCAR
Format CD
Country Europe
EAN 5400439004498
Number of discs 2
Number of tracks 35

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Disc 1

Ouverture
3:39

Disc 2

Recitative: What Says The Other (Solomon, Second Woman)
1:20
Air: Thy Sentence, Great King (Second Woman)
2:03
Recitative: Withhold The Executing Hand! (First Woman)
0:14
Air: Can I See My Infant Gor'd (First Woman)
4:18
Accompagnato: Israel, Attend To What Your King Shall Say (Solomon)
1:47
Duet: Thrice Bless'd Be The King (First Woman, Solomon)
3:17
Chorus: From The East Unto The West
2:07
Recitative: From Mom To Eve (Zadok)
0:31
Air: See The Tall Palm (Zadok)
5:14
Recitative: No More Shall Armed Bands (First Woman)
0:23
Air: Beneath The Vine (First Woman)
3:46
Chorus: Swell The Full Chorus
1:13
Symfony
2:54
Recitative: From Arabia's Spicy Shores (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon)
1:30
Air: Ev'ry Sight These Eyes Behold (Queen Of Sheba)
4:30
Recitative: Sweep, Sweep The String (Solomon)
0:20
Solo And Chorus: Music, Spread Thy Voice Around (Solomon, Chorus)
3:33
Solo And Chorus: Now A Diff 'rent Measure Try – Shake The Dome (Solomon, Chorus)
1:42
Recitative: Then At Once From Rage Remove (Solomon)
0:41
Chorus: Draw The Tear From Hopeless Love
2:44
Recitative: Next The Tortur'd Soul Release (Solomon)
0:16
Solo And Chorus: Thus Rolling Surges Rise (Solomon, Chorus)
2:58
Recitative: Thy Harmony's Divine (Queen Of Sheba)
1:09
Air: Pious King And Virtuous Queen (Levite)
2:33
Recitative: Thrice Happy King (Zadok)
0:56
Air: Golden Columns (Zadok)
2:54
Chorus: Praise The Lord
3:38
Recitative: Gold Now Is Common (Solomon)
0:30
Air: How Green Our Fertile Pastures Look (Solomon)
2:00
Recitative: May Peace In Salem Ever Dwell! (Queen Of Sheba)
0:45
Air: Will The Sun Forget To Streak (Queen Of Sheba)
5:38
Recitative: Adieu, Fair Queen (Solomon)
0:19
Duet: Ev'ry Joy That Wisdom Knows (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon)
2:46
Chorus: The Name Of The Wicked
2:59