Saul HWV 53
Harry Christophers, The Sixteen Orchestra, The Sixteen, Christopher Purves (Bass), Dame Sarah Connolly (Alto), Robert Murray (Tenor), Elizabeth Atherton (Soprano), Joélle Harvey (Soprano), Mark Dobell (Tenor), Jeremy Budd (Tenor), Stuart Young (Bass), Eamonn Dougan (Baritone), Ben Davies (Bass), Thomas Raskin (Tenor)
2012, Kilburn, St Augustine's Church, Kilburn
- 11:56Overture
Part I
- 02:451. "How Excellent Thy Name", (Chorus of Israelites)
- 01:372. Air. "An Infant Rais'd", (Merah)
- 01:023. "Along the Monster" (Chorus)
- 01:494. "The Youth Inspired" (Chorus of Israelites)
- 00:505. "How Excellent Thy Name" (Chours of Israelites)
- 01:416. "Hallelujah!" (Chorus of Israelites)
- 00:047. Recitive. "He Comes, He Comes!" (Michal)
- 03:168. Air. "O Godlike Youth" (Michal)
- 00:539. Recitative. "Behold, O King" (Abner, Saul, David)
- 05:2410. Air. "O King, Your Favours" (David)
- 00:2411. Recitative "Oh Early Piety!" (Jonathan)
- 02:0412. Air. "What Abject Thoughts" (Merab)
- 00:1313. Recitative. "Yet Think On Whom This Honor" (Merab)
- 04:5814. Air. "Birth and Fortune I Despise!" (Jonathan)
- 00:2015. Recitative. "Go On, Illustrious Pair!" (High Priest)
- 02:0416. Air. "While Yet Thy Tide" (High Priest)
- 00:1917. Recitative. "Thou, Merab, First in Birth" (Saul, Merab)
- 03:1818. Air. "My Soul Rejects" (Merab, Michal)
- 01:0419. Sinfonia
- 00:1820. Recitative. "Already See the Daughters" (Michal)
- 01:3021. "Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King!" (Chorus of Israelites)
- 00:2522. Accompagnato. "What Do I Hear?" (Saul)
- 00:3123. "David His Ten Thousand Slew" (Chorus of Israelites)
- 00:1424. Accompagnato. "To Him Ten Thousands" (Saul)
- 01:1425. Air. "With Rage I Shall Burst" (Saul)
- 00:4526. Recitative. "Imprudent Women!" (Johnathan, Michal)
- 02:3627. Air. "Fell Rage and Black Despair" (Michal)
- 00:1628. Recitative. "Racked with Infernal Pains" (Abner)
- 04:0329. Air. "Oh Lord Whose Mercies" (David)
- 01:2930. Symphony (Harp)
- 00:1931. Recitative. "'Tis All in Vain" (Jonathan)
- 01:5432. Air. "A Serpent, in My Bosom Warm'd" (Saul)
- 00:2133. Recitative. "Has He Escap'd My Rage?" (Saul)
- 03:4034. Air. "Capricious Man" (Mehab)
- 01:2235. Accompagnato. "O Filial Piety!" (Jonathan)
- 01:2436. Air. "No, Cruel Father, No!" (Jonathan)
- 01:2737. Air. "O Lord, Whose Providence" (High Priest)
- 03:4138. "Preserve Him for the Glory" (High Priest)
Part II
- 03:001. "Envy, Eldest Born of Hell" (Chorus)
- 00:352. Recitative. "Ah, Dearest Friend" (Jonathan)
- 02:103. Air. "But Sooner Jordan's Stream" (Jonathan)
- 00:564. Recitative. "Oh, Strange Vicissitude!" (David, Jonathan)
- 05:095. Air. "Such Haughty Beauties Rather Move" (David)
- 00:536. Recitative. "My Father Comes" (Jonathan)
- 02:057. Air. "Sin Not, O King, Against the Youth" (Jonathan)
- 01:078. Air. "As Great Jehovah Lives, I Swear" (Saul)
- 02:029. Air. "From Cities Stormed, And Battles Won" (Jonathan)
- 00:3010. Recitative. "Appear, My Friend" (Jonathan, Saul)
- 01:0511. "Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart" (David)
- 01:0212. Recitative. "Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter!" (Saul)
- 02:5113. "O Fairest of Then Thousand Fair" (Michal, David)
- 01:3914. "Is There a Man, Who All His Ways" (Chorus)
- 06:4515. Sinfonia
- 00:4216. Recitative. "Thy Father Is As Cruel" (David)
- 01:1117. Duet. "At Persecution I Can Laugh" (David, Michal)
- 00:4118. Recitative. "Whom Dost Thou Seek?" (Michal, Doeg)
- 01:2419. Air. "No, No, Let the Guitly Tremble" (Michal)
- 00:5220. Recitative. "Mean As He Was, He Is My New Brother" (Merab)
- 03:3621. Air. "Author of Peace" (Merab)
- 01:1022. Saul at the Feast of the New Moon. (Symphony)
- 00:3823. Saul at the Feast of the New Moon. Accompagnato. "The Time At Length Is Come" (Saul)
- 01:0524. Recitative. "Where Is the Son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan)
- 05:1025. "Oh Fatal Consequence" (Chorus)
Part III
- 02:111. Accompagnato. "Wretch That I Am, of My Own Ruin Author!" (Saul)
- 00:552. Accompagnato. "'Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman" (Saul)
- 00:443. Recitative. "With Me What Would'st Thou?" (Witch, Saul)
- 01:534 Air. "Infernal Spirits, By Whose Pow'r" (Witch)
- 03:175. Accompagnao. "Why Hast Thou Forc'd Me from the Realms of Peace?" (Samuel, Saul)
- 00:366. Sinfonia
- 01:037. Recitative. "Whence Comest Thou?" (David, Amalekite)
- 01:518. Air. "Impious Wretch, of Race Accurst!" (David)
- 03:169. Dead March (Symphony)
- 03:3610. "Mourn, Israel, Mourn Thy Beauty Lost" (Chours)
- 02:2111. Accompagnato "Oh, Let It Not in Gath Be Heard" (High Priest)
- 02:3712. Air. "From This Unhappy Day" (Merab)
- 02:0713. Air. "Brave Jonathan Hi Bow Never Drew" (David)
- 00:2214. Chorus."Eagles Were Not So Swift As They..." (Israelites)
- 04:0115. Air. "In Sweetest Harmony They Lived" (Michal)
- 04:0116. Solo/Chorus. "Oh Fatal Day!" (David, Israelites)
- 00:2817. Recitative. "Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More!" (High Priest)
- 05:2218. Chorus. "Gird on Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might" (Israelites)
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- Sir Philip Stevens Ledger, Charles Daniels, Christopher Gillett, Gareth Morrell, Margaret Marshall, Martyn Hill, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra℗ 2002
- René Jacobs, Emma Bell, Finnur Bjarnason, Gidon Saks, Henry Waddington, Jeremy Ovenden, Concerto Köln, RIAS Kammerchor℗ 2006
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