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Handel: Alexander Balus / King, The King's Concort
曲目リスト
ディスク: 1
1 | Act I: Ov |
2 | Act I. Chor: Flush'd With Conquest, Fir'd By Mithra |
3 | Act I. Recitative: Thus Far, Ye Glorious Partners Of The War |
4 | Act I. Air: Great Author Of This Harmony |
5 | Act I: Flourish Of Trumpets |
6 | Act I. Recitative: And Thus Let Happy Egypt's King |
7 | Act I. Air: Thrice Happy The Monarch, Whom Nations Contend |
8 | Act I. Recitative: Congratulation To Our Father's Friend |
9 | Act I. Air: Hark! Hark! He Strikes The Golden Lyre |
10 | Act I. Recitative: Be It My Chief Ambition There To Rise |
11 | Act I. Air: Fair Virtue Shall Charm Me |
12 | Act I. Chor: Ye Happy Nations Round |
13 | Act I. Recitative: My Jonathan |
14 | Act I. Air: Oh, What Resistless Charms Are Giv'n |
15 | Act I. Air: Subtle Love, With Fancy Viewing |
16 | Act I. Recitative: Aspasia, I Know Not What To Call |
17 | Act I. Air: How Happy Should We Mortals Prove |
18 | Act I. Recitative: Check Not The Pleasing Accents Of Thy Tongue |
19 | Act I. Air: So Shall The Sweet Attractive Smile |
20 | Act I. Recitative: How Blissful State! |
21 | Act I. Duet: O What Pleasures, Past Expressing |
22 | Act I. Recitative: Why Hangs This Heavy Gloom Upon The Brow |
23 | Act I. Air: Heroes May Boast Their Mighty Deeds |
24 | Act I. Recitative: Ye Sons Of Judah, With High Festival |
25 | Act I. Air: Great God, From Whom All Blessings Spring |
26 | Act II. Air: Kind Hope, Thou Universal Friend |
27 | Act II. Recitative: Long, Long And Happy Live The King! |
28 | Act II. Air: O Mithra, With Thy Brightest Beams |
29 | Act II. Recitative: Stay, My Dread Sovereign |
30 | Act II. Air: Mighty Love Now Calls To Arm |
31 | Act II. Air: Hateful Man! They Sland'rous Tongue |
ディスク: 2
1 | Act II. Chor: O Calumny, On Virtue Waiting |
2 | Act II. Recitative: Ah! Whence These Dire Forebodings Of The Mind? |
3 | Act II. Air: Tossed From Thought To Thought I Rove |
4 | Act II. Recitative: Give To The Winds, Fair Princess, These Vain Doubts |
5 | Act II. Air: Love, Glory, Ambition, Whate'er Can Inspire |
6 | Act II. Recitative: Thus Far My Wishes Thrive |
7 | Act II. Air: Virtue, Thou Ideal Name |
8 | Act II. Accompagnato: Ye Happy People, With Loud Accents Speak |
9 | Act II. Soli/Chor: Triumph Hymen In The Pair |
10 | Act II. Recitative: Glad Time, At Length, Hath Reach'd The Happy Point |
11 | Act II. Duet: Hail Wedded Love, Mysterious Law! |
12 | Act II. Chor: Hymen, Fair Urania's Son |
13 | Act III: Sinf |
14 | Act III. Recitative: 'Tis True, Instinctive Nature Seldom Points |
15 | Act III. Air: Here Amid The Shady Woods |
16 | Act III. Recitative: Ah! Was It Not My Cleopatra's Voice? |
17 | Act III. Air: Pow'rful Guardians Of All Nature |
18 | Act III. Recitative: Treach'ry, O King, Unheard Of Treachery |
19 | Act III. Air: Fury, With Red Sparkling Eyes |
20 | Act III. Recitative: Gods! Can There Be A More Afflicting Sight |
21 | Act III. Air: Strange Reverse Of Human Fate |
22 | Act III. Recitative: May He Return With Laurel'd Victory |
23 | Act III. Air: To God Who Made The Radiant Sun |
24 | Act III. Chor: Sun, Moon, And Stars, And All Ye Host Of Heav'n |
25 | Act III. Recitative: Yes He Was False, My Daughter, False To You |
26 | Act III. Accompagnato: Ungrateful Child, By Ev'ry Sacred Pow'r |
27 | Act III. Air: O Sword, And Thou, All-Daring Hand |
28 | Act III. Accompagnato: Shall Cleopatra Ever Smile Again? |
29 | Act III. Recitative: Ungrateful Tidings To The Royal Ear |
30 | Act III. Air: O Take Me From This Hateful Light |
31 | Act III. Recitative: Forgive, O Queen, The Messenger Of Ill! |
32 | Act III. Accompagnato: Calm Thou My Soul |
33 | Act III. Air: Convey Me To Some Peaceful Shore |
34 | Act III. Recitative: Mysterious Are Thy Ways, O Providence! |
35 | Act III. Chor: Ye Servants Of Th' Eternal King |
商品の説明
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Of the four militaristic oratorios Handel wrote in the 1740s, Joshua, the Occasional Oratorio, Judas Maccabeus, and Alexander Balus, this last, based on an episode from the apocryphal book of the Maccabees, is the only really uninspired one of the lot. The best numbers are recycled from Handel's marvelous La Resurrezione of more than 30 years before--this is no problem in itself, but the rest of the music sounds all the duller in comparison. Still Hyperion, Robert King, and the King's Consort deserve praise for seeing to it that all of Handel's oratorios get high-quality performances on disc. Handel completists will want this, especially for Lynne Dawson's delicious performance as the Egyptian queen. --Matthew Westphal
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- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 14.27 x 12.5 x 0.84 cm; 108.86 g
- メーカー : Hyperion UK
- EAN : 0034571172415
- 製造元リファレンス : CDA67241/2
- レーベル : Hyperion UK
- ASIN : B000003015
- 原産国 : 英国
- ディスク枚数 : 2
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But I am happy to report that this is a glorious recording, with fire in its belly, committed and excellent singing, and (mirabile dictu for an HIP performance) real weight and power that do the composer proud. Nor is this one of Handel's less-inspired works, as some here have suggested: its music can stand comparison with his very best, even the very different Messiah. The listener is entirely caught up in the drama for its entire duration. Aiding this is a superbly judged and balanced recording.
I have started buying second-hand copies of older recordings like this one for their high-quality printed libretti (PDF versions on disc are inconvenient in every way: you have to read them on a computer while playing your CD on a separate disc player, or print them out and have an unmanageable paper copy that can't be filed with the recording). This set contains a complete libretto in English, French, and German, along with a scholarly account of the work by Robert King himself. What are you waiting for?
Morell's text is based on the First Book of Maccabees. It differs from most of the oratorios in keeping the chorus mainly to a role of setting the scene and summing up at the end of each act or scene, much as in Hercules. There is little overt drama or action until near the end of act II, but the golden flow of Handel's infinite musical inspiration keeps me mesmerised all the way. He displays a formidable box of instrumental tricks in Cleopatra's long aria `Hark! Hark! He strikes the golden lyre', but this is only one in a glorious series of solos until a new note is introduced with the attempt by the Sycophant Courtier to sow discord, after which the general tone becomes not only more varied but more solemn. The chorus `O calumny' that ends act II scene 1 is a very different proposition from the magnificent earlier choruses, and Jonathan's aria `To God who made the radiant sun', and later Cleopatra's `O take me from this hateful light' are among the most awesome that Handel or any man ever conceived.
The part of Balus is an alto part, sung here by Catherine Denley. She handles it very well indeed, but the really striking roles are those of the Israelite prince Jonathan and the Egyptian Ptolemy's daughter Cleopatra, superbly put across by Charles Daniels and Lynne Dawson. In fact all five principals are excellent, pure in tone and impeccable in intonation, and so are the three minor parts sung by members of the choir of the King's Consort. The choirs have boy trebles and altos, and their tone is strong, contributing due weight to Handel's choral writing, incomparably the greatest there can ever have been. The instrumentalists are eminent specialists performing to the peak of their talent, and the recorded sound, from 1997, is beyond criticism.
As usual with Robert King's productions, he contributes his own admirable liner note, and both this and the libretto have translations into French and German. He does not actually tell us why the Israelite princes are invoking Mithra in the early stages of the work, but this theological aberration is explained and put right in the sublime aria for Jonathan that I mentioned above, in which Jehovah is restored to his rightful place.
We have the opportunity now to restore Handel to his rightful place also, and my bewilderment at how this supereminent musical creator ever sank below the horizon as he did is only matched by my relief at having lived through the age that is rectifying the matter. Before long my collection of his oratorios will be complete, and that is a project I would like to exhort as many as possible to join me in. There are 17 of them on my counting, which is the `best' I would not know how to assess, but if, say, 13 or 14 of them are equal first this would be one of the 13 or 14.