Handel, Christopher Purves, Sarah Connolly, Robert Murray, Elizabeth Atherton, Joélle Harvey, Mark Dobell, Jeremy Budd, Stuart Young, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Saul

Label	CORO ‎– COR16103
Format	3 x CD, Album
Barcode	0828021610325
Country	Europe
Released	2012
Genre	Classical
Style	Baroque, Oratorio

	Act One
1-1	Overture	11:55
	Scene 1 An Epinicion Or Song Of Triumph, For The Victory Over Goliath And The Philistines.
1-2	How Excellent Thy Name	2:45
1-3	An Infant Rais’d	1:37
1-4	Along The Monster	1:02
1-5	The Youth Inspir’d	1:48
1-6	How Excellent Thy Name	0:49
1-7	Hallelujah!	1:40
	Scene 2
1-8	He comes, he comes!	0:04
1-9	O Godlike Youth	3:15
1-10	Behold, O King	0:53
1-11	O King, Your Favours	5:23
1-12	Oh, Early Piety!	0:23
1-13	What Abject Thoughts	2:04
1-14	Yet Think On Whom This Honour	0:12
1-15	Birth And Fortune I Despise!	4:57
1-16	Go On, Illustrious Pair!	0:19
1-17	While Yet Thy Tide	2:04
1-18	Thou, Merab, First In Birth	0:18
1-19	My Soul Rejects	3:18
1-20	Sinfonia	1:04
	Scene 3
1-21	Already See The Daughters	0:18
1-22	Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King!	1:30
1-23	What Do I hear?	0:24
1-24	David His Ten Thousands Slew	0:31
1-25	To Him Ten Thousands	0:13
1-26	With Rage I Shall Burst	1:14
	Scene 4
1-27	Imprudent Women!	0:44
1-28	Fell Rage And black Despair	2:36
	Scene 5
1-29	Racked With Infernal Pains	0:16
1-30	O Lord, Whose Merices	4:03
1-31	Symphony (Harp)	1:29
1-32	'Tis All In Vain	0:18
1-33	A Serpent, In My Bosom Warm'd	1:54
1-34	Has He Escp'd My Rage?	0:21
1-35	Capricious Man	3:39
	Scene 6
1-36	O Filial Piety!	1:21
1-37	No, Cruel Father, No!	1:24
1-38	O Lord, Whose Providence	1:27
1-39	Preserve Him For The Glory	3:45
	Act Two
	Scene 1
2-1	Envy, Eldest Born Of Hell	2:59
	Scene 2
2-2	Ah, Dearest Friend	0:34
2-3	But Sooner Jordan’s Stream	2:10
2-4	Oh, Strange Vicissitude!	0:55
2-5	Such Haughty Beauties Rather Move	5:09
2-6	My Father Comes	0:52
	Scene 3
2-7	Sin Not, O King, Against The Youth	2:05
2-8	As Great Jehovah Lives, I Swear	1:06
2-9	From Cities Stormed, And Battles Won	2:02
	Scene 4
2-10	Appear, My Friend	0:30
2-11	Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart	1:04
2-12	Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter!	1:01
	Scene 5
2-13	O Fairest Of Ten Thousand Fair	2:49
2-14	Is There A Man, Who All His Ways	1:40
2-15	Sinfonia	6:45
	Scene 6
2-16	Thy Father Is As Cruel	0:41
2-17	At Persecution I Can Laugh	1:11
	Scene 7
2-18	Whom Dost Thou Seek?	0:41
2-19	No, No, Let The Guilty Tremble	1:23
	Scene 8
2-20	Mean As He Was, He Is My Brother Now	0:52
2-21	Author Of Peace	3:35
	Scene 9 Saul At The Feast Of The New Moon.
2-22	Symphony	1:10
2-23	The Time At Length Is Come	0:37
	Scene 10
2-24	Where Is The Son Of Jesse?	1:04
2-25	Oh, Fatal Consequence	5:10
	Act Three
	Scene 1 Saul Disguised, At Endor.
3-1	Wretch That I Am, Of My Own Ruin Author!	2:10
3-2	’Tis said, here lives a woman	0:54
	Scene 2 Saul And The Witch Of Endor.
3-3	With Me What Would’st Thou?	0:44
3-4	Infernal Spirits, By Whose Pow’r	1:53
	Scene 3 Apparition Of Samuel.
3-5	Why Hast Thou Forc’d Me From The Realms Of Peace?	3:16
3-6	Sinfonia	0:36
	Scene 4
3-7	Whence Comest Thou?	1:03
3-8	Impious Wretch, Of Race Accurst!	1:51
3-9	Symphony: Dead March	3:16
	Scene 5 Elegy On The Death Of Saul And Jonathan.
3-10	Mourn, Israel, Mourn Thy Beauty Lost	3:35
3-11	Oh, Let It Not In Gath Be Heard	2:20
3-12	From This Unhappy Day	2:37
3-13	Brave Jonathan His Bow Never Drew	2:06
3-14	Eagles Were Not So Swift As They	0:21
3-15	In Sweetest Harmony They Lived	4:02
3-16	O Fatal Day!	4:00
3-17	Ye Men Of Judah, Weep No More!	0:28
3-18	Gird On Thy Sword, Thou Man Of Might	5:21

Alto Vocals [The Sixteen] – Christopher Royall
Alto Vocals [The Sixteen] – David Clegg
Alto Vocals [The Sixteen] – Ian Aitkenhead
Alto Vocals [The Sixteen] – William Missin
Baritone Vocals [Abner] – Eamonn Dougan
Bass Vocals [Doeg] – Ben Davies
Bass Vocals [Ghost Of Samuel] – Stuart Young
Bass Vocals [Saul] – Christopher Purves
Bass Vocals [The Sixteen] – Ben Davies
Bass Vocals [The Sixteen] – Eamonn Dougan
Bass Vocals [The Sixteen] – Stuart Young
Bass Vocals [The Sixteen] – Tim Jones
Bassoon – Sally Jackson
Bassoon – Zoe Shevlin
Cello – Imogen Seth-Smith
Cello – Joseph Crouch
Composed By – Georg Friedrich Händel
Conductor – Harry Christophers
Design – Andrew Giles
Engineer – Mike Hatch
Flute – Christine Garratt
Flute – Graham O'Sullivan
Harp – Frances Kelly
Harpsichord, Organ – Alastair Ross
Liner Notes – Harry Christophers
Liner Notes – Ruth Smith
Mezzo-soprano Vocals [David] – Sarah Connolly
Oboe – Anthony Robson
Oboe – Richard Earle
Orchestra, Chorus – The Sixteen
Organ, Carillon – Julian Perkins
Painting [Cover] – Giovanni Francesco Barbieri
Producer – Mark Brown
Soprano Vocals [Merab] – Elizabeth Atherton
Soprano Vocals [Michal] – Joélle Harvey
Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Alexandra Kidgell
Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Charlotte Mobbs
Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Grace Davidson
Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Julie Cooper
Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Kirsty Hopkins
Soprano Vocals [The Sixteen] – Sally Dunkley
Tenor Vocals [Amalekite] – Tom Raskin
Tenor Vocals [High Priest] – Mark Dobell
Tenor Vocals [Jonathan] – Robert Murray
Tenor Vocals [The Sixteen] – Jeremy Budd
Tenor Vocals [The Sixteen] – Mark Dobell
Tenor Vocals [The Sixteen] – Simon Berridge
Tenor Vocals [The Sixteen] – Tom Raskin
Tenor Vocals [Witch Of Endor] – Jeremy Budd
Theorbo – David Miller
Timpani – Charles Fullbrook
Trombone – Emily White
Trombone – Stephen Saunders
Trombone – Sue Addison
Trumpet – Christopher Pigram
Trumpet – Robert Farley
Viola – Martin Kelly
Viola – Stefanie Heichelheim
Violin – Daniel Edgar
Violin – Ellen O'Dell
Violin – Graham Cracknell
Violin – Henrietta Wayne
Violin – Jane Gordon
Violin – Katarina Bengston
Violin – Nia Lewis
Violin – Rebecca Miles
Violin – Sarah Sexton
Violin – Sophie Barber
Violin, Leader – Walter Reiter
Violone – Jan Spencer

CD1: 73:36
CD2: 48:19
CD3: 40:44
Recorded January 2012.

3 discs in a "fat-boy" double jewel box case and with an outer cardboard slipcase.

Barcode – 828021610325
Rights Society – mcps

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