Description
George Frideric Handel - Solomon - Daniel Reuss / hmHeritage / Harmonia Mundi 2x Audio CD 2016 / HMY 2921949.50
UPC 3149020194959
Solomon, HWV 67, is an English oratorio by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous libretto – currently thought to have been penned by the English Jewish poet/playwright Moses Mendes (d.1758) – is based on the biblical stories of the wise king Solomon from the First Book of Kings and the Second Book of Chronicles, with additional material from Antiquities of the Jews by ancient historian Flavius Josephus. The music was composed between 5 May and 13 June 1748, and the first performance took place on 17 March 1749, with Caterina Galli in the title role at the Covent Garden Theatre in London, where it had two further performances. Handel revived the work in 1759.
The oratorio contains a short and lively instrumental passage for two oboes and strings in Act Three, known as "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", which has become famous outside the context of the complete work, and was featured at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony as James Bond (Daniel Craig) goes to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
| Label: | Harmonia Mundi – HMY 2921949.50 |
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| Series: | hmHeritage |
| Format: |
2 x CD, Box Set
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2016 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Baroque, Oratorio |
Tracklist:
| Act One | |||
| 1-01 | No.1 Overture | 6:55 | |
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Scene 1 |
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| 1-02 | No.2 Chorus Of Priests Your Harps And Cymbals Sound | 3:40 | |
| 1-03 | No.3 Air. Levite Praise Ye The Lord For All His Mercies Past | 4:58 | |
| 1-04 | No.4 Chorus Of Priests With Pious Heart, And Holy Tongue | 4:44 | |
| 1-05 | No.5 Accompagnato. Solomon Almighty Pow'r | 3:15 | |
| 1-06 | No.6 Recitative. Zadok Imperial Solomon | 0:32 | |
| 1-07 | No.7 Air. Zadok Sacred Raptures Cheer My Breast | 4:33 | |
| 1-08 | No.8 Chorus Of Israelites Throughout The Land Jehovah's Praise Record | 3:51 | |
| 1-09 | No.9 Recitative. Solomon Bless'd Be The Lord | 0:26 | |
| 1-10 | No.10 Air. Solomon What Though I Trace Each Herb And Flow'r | 5:59 | |
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Scene 2 |
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| 1-11 | No.11 Recitative. Solomon And See My Queen, My Wedded Love | 0:41 | |
| 1-12 | No.12 Air. Queen Bless'd The Day When First My Eyes | 5:52 | |
| 1-13 | No.13 Recitative. Solomon, Queen Thou Fair Inhabitant Of Nile | 0:43 | |
| 1-14 | No.14 Duet. Queen, SolomonWelcome As The Dawn Of The Day | 3:28 | |
| 1-15 | No.17 Recitative. Solomon My Blooming Fair | 0:09 | |
| 1-16 | No.18 Air. Solomon Haste, Haste To Cedar Grove | 2:45 | |
| 1-17 | No.19 Recitative. Queen When Thou Art Absent From My Sight | 0:15 | |
| 1-18 | No.20 Air. Queen With Thee Th'Unshelter'd Morr I'd Tread | 2:25 | |
| 1-19 | No.21 Recitative. Zadok Search Round The World | 0:11 | |
| 1-20 | No.22 Chorus May No Rash Intruder Disturb Their Soft Hours | 4:25 | |
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Act Two |
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| Scene 1 | |||
| 1-21 | No.23 Chorus Of Israelites From The Censer Curling Rise | 5:20 | |
| 1-22 | No.24 Recitative. Solomon Prais'd Be The Lord | 0:54 | |
| 1-23 | No.25 Air. Solomon When The Sun O'er Yonder Hills | 4:05 | |
| 1-24 | No.26 Recitative. Levite Great Prince, Thy Resolution's Just | 0:19 | |
| 1-25 | No.27 Air. Levite Thrice Bless'd That Wise Discerning King | 3:24 | |
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Scene 2 |
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| 1-26.1 | No.28 Recitative. Attendant, Solomon My Sovereign Liege | 0:40 | |
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Scene 3 |
5:17 | ||
| 1-26.2 | First Harlot Thou Son Of David, Hear A Mother's Grief | 1:11 | |
| 1-27 | No.29 Trio. Solomon, Two Harlots Words Are Weak To Paint My Fears | ||
| 2-01 | No.30 Recitative. Solomon, 2n Harlot What Says The Other To Th'Imputed Charge? | 1:11 | |
| 2-02 | No.31 Air. Second Harlot Thy Sentence, Great King | 1:56 | |
| 2-03 | No.32 Recitative. First Harlot Whithhold, Whittold The Executing Hand | 0:11 | |
| 2-04 | No.33 Air. First Harlot Can I See My Enfant Gor'd | 4:33 | |
| 2-05 | No.34 Accompagnato. Solomon Israel, Attend To What Your King Shall Say | 1:31 | |
| 2-06 | No.35 Duet. First Harlot, Solomon Thrice Bless'd The King | 3:06 | |
| 2-07 | No.36 Chorus Of Israelites From The East Unto The West | 2:54 | |
| 2-08 | No.37 Recitative. Zadok From Morn To Eve I Could Enraptur'd Sing | 0:17 | |
| 2-09 | No.38 Air. Zadok See The Tall Palm That Lifts The Head | 5:46 | |
| 2-10 | No.39 Recitative. First Harlot No More Shall Armed Bands Our Hopes Destroy | 0:19 | |
| 2-11 | No.40 Air. First Harlot Beneath The Vine, Or Fig-Tree's Shade | 3:27 | |
| 2-12 | No.41 Chorus Of Priests Swell, Swell The Full Chorus To Solomon's Praise | 3:10 | |
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Act Three |
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| 2-13 | No.42 Symphony: Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba | 2:52 | |
| 2-14 | No.43 Recitative. Queen Of Sheba, Solomon From Arabia Spicy Shores | 1:10 | |
| 2-15 | No.44 Air. Queen Of Sheba Ev'ry Sight These Eyes Behold | 4:42 | |
| 2-16 | No.45 Recitative. Solomon Sweep, Sweep The String | 0:13 | |
| 2-17 | No.46 Solo. Solomon And Israelites Music, Spread Thy Voice Around | 2:31 | |
| 2-18 | No.47 Solo. Solomon And Israelites Now A Diff'rent Measure Try | 1:53 | |
| 2-19 | No.48 Recitative. Solomon Then At Once From Rage Remove | 0:31 | |
| 2-20 | No.49 Chorus Of Israelites Draw The Tear From Hopeless Love | 2:51 | |
| 2-21 | No.50 Recitative. Solomon Next The Tortur'd Soul Release | 0:15 | |
| 2-22 | No.51 Solo. Solomon And Israelites Thus Rolling Surges Rise | 3:42 | |
| 2-23 | No.52 Recitative. Queen Of Sheba Thy Harmony's Divine, Great King | 1:01 | |
| 2-24 | No.53 Recitative. Zadok Thrice Happy King, To Have Achiev'd | 0:39 | |
| 2-25 | No.54 Air. Zadok Golden Columns, Fair And Bright | 3:17 | |
| 2-26 | No.55 Recitative. Solomon Gold Now Is Common On Our Happy Shore | 0:25 | |
| 2-27 | No.56 Air. Solomon How Green Our Fertile Pastures Look | 2:39 | |
| 2-28 | No.57 Recitative. Queen Of Sheba May Peace In Salem Ever Dwell! | 0:40 | |
| 2-29 | No.58 Air. Queen Of Sheba Will The Sun Forget To Streak | 6:22 | |
| 2-30 | No.59 Recitative. Solomon Adieu, Fair Queen, And In Thy Breast | 0:17 | |
| 2-31 | No.60 Duet. Queen Of Sheba, Solomon Ev'ry Joy That Wisdom Knows | 2:52 | |
| 2-32 | No.61 Double Chorus Praise The Lord With Harp And Tongue! | 4:21 |
- Alto Vocals – Andrea Effmert, Bärbel Kaiser, Christine Bohnenkamp, Claudia Türpe, Hildegard Wiedemann, Marie-Luise Wilke, Susanne Langner, Truike Van Der Poel, Ulrike Bartsch, Waltraud Heinrich
- Alto Vocals [Solomon] – Sarah Connolly
- Bass Vocals – Andrew Redmond, Clemens Heidrich, Friedemann Klos, Janusz Gregorowicz, Jonathan E. de la Paz Zaens, Klaus Thiem, Paul Mayr, Rudolf Preckwinkel, Werner Matusch
- Bass Vocals [A Levite] – David Wilson-Johnson
- Bassoon – Christian Beuse, Györgi Farkas
- Bassoon [Contrabassoon] – Stephan Pantzier
- Cello – Barbara Kernig, Inka Döring, Jan Freiheit, Sibylle Huntgeburth
- Choir – RIAS Kammerchor
- Composed By – Georg Friedrich Haendel
- Conductor – Daniel Reuss
- Double Bass [Contrabass] – Mirjam Wittulsi, Walter Rumer
- Edited By [Montage] – René Möller
- Flute – Andrea Theinert, Marion Hofmockel
- French Horn [Cors Anglais] – Christiane Vosseler, Raphael Vosseler
- Harpsichord – Gerd Amelung, Raphael Alpermann
- Lute – Ophira Zakai
- Oboe – Katharina Bäuml, Michael Bosch, Stephanie Haegele, Xenia Löffler
- Orchestra – Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin
- Painting [Cover Painting] – Christian Winck
- Photography By [Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin] – Peter Witt
- Photography By [Daniel Reuss] – Alvaro Yañez
- Photography By [David Wilson-johnson] – Philippe Christin
- Photography By [Mark Padmore] – Marco Borggreve
- Photography By [Rias Kammerchor] – Mathias Heyde
- Photography By [Sarah Connolly] – Peter Warren (4)
- Photography By [Susan Gritton] – Tim Cantrell (2)
- Producer [Direction Artistique] – Martin Sauer
- Recorded By [Prise De Son] – Tobias Lehmann
- Soprano Vocals – Anette Lösch, Christina Kaiser, Inès Villanueva, Judith Schmidt, Kristin Foss, Madalena De Faria, Nathalie Siebert, Sabine Nürmberger-Gembaczka, Stephanie Petitlaurent, Viola Wiemker
- Soprano Vocals [Queen Of Sheba, Second Harlot] – Carolyn Sampson
- Soprano Vocals [Solomon's Queen, First Harlot] – Susan Gritton
- Tenor Vocals – Christian Mücke, Friedemann Hecht, Friedemann Körner, Joachim Buhrmann, Kai Roterberg, Markus Schuck, Reinhold Beiten, Stephan Gähler, Volker Arndt, Wolfgang Ebling
- Tenor Vocals [Zadok, Attendant] – Mark Padmore
- Timbales – Heiner Herzog
- Trumpet – Sebastian Kuhn, Ute Hartwich
- Viola – Anja Graewel, Annette Geiger, Clemens Nuszbaumer, Johannes Platz, Sabine Fehlandt, Stephan Sieben (2)
- Violin [First] – Anne von Hoff, Barbara Halfter, Dörte Wetzel, Erik Dorset, Georg Kallweit, Kerstin Erben, Thomas Graewe, Uta Peters
- Violin [Second] – Albrecht Kühner, Christoph Maier, Gabriele Steinfeld, Judith Freise, Jürgen Gross, Matthias Hummel, Paula Kibildis
