Handel - Solomon (John Eliot Gardiner) (1985)
Handel - Solomon (John Eliot Gardiner) (1985)
Classical | Eac. Flac, Img+Cue, Log | Covers | 599.95 MB
Label: Philips | Catalog N.: 412 612-2 | TT: 136:05
Classical | Eac. Flac, Img+Cue, Log | Covers | 599.95 MB
Label: Philips | Catalog N.: 412 612-2 | TT: 136:05
The libretto of Solomon, author unknown, is strange. Much of Act 1 is devoted to an epithalamium celebrating the wedding of Solomon and an Egyptian princess whom we do not meet again. (The Victorians used to bowdlerize some of the words.) Act 2, much the most dramatic, tells how Solomon solved the famous maternity suit (but how could the false mother agree to the baby's bisection?). Act 3 tells how Solomon stagemanaged and contributed to a short choral masque presented for the entertainment of the Queen of Sheba in return for presents of gold. According to Winton Dean the masque cries Out to be mimed, but even so there is less drama in Solomon than in some of the other oratorios and no overall plot. In 1749, the same soprano, the Italian Frasi, sang both queens, but the parts are better split axon these discs. The soloists are excellent. Solomon is taken by a female mezzo (which is what Handel wanted) and Carolyn Watkinson sings with a lovely milky smoothness which contrasts well with the youthful bell-like tones of the Canadian, Nancy Argenta. The latter's coloratura is thrillingly precise. As Sheba's queen, Barbara Hendricks projects her music well, and the two harlots in the maternity dispute are excitingly vivid; Handel distinguishes between them with a born dramatist's skill. In the solo items I would only question the fast speed in the duet near the end which Handel marked Larghetto.
The useful booklet finds room for John Eliot Gardiner's views on what he calls "the most magnificent, certainly the most lavish of all Handel's oratorios". These qualities arise mainly from the unusually full orchestration in the numerous choruses which are of superb quality almost withOut exception. But Gardiner agrees with Winton Dean in thinking some of the solos "dead wood", and I myself applaud his decision to cut Sheha's first and Solomon's last arias in Act 3, as also two of Zadok's arias and the final chorus, even though there would be room for most of them on the third disc and tape. Gardiner ends effectively with that giant of a chorus, "Praise the Lord with heart and tongue". The short masque just before this allows for choruses in contrasted moods, notably the celestially sad "Draw the tear from hopeless love". Another lovely chorus which is not celebratory ends Act I, "May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours". But the bigger choruses are mostly for two choirs, and because Gardiner insists on an unusually wide spacing for them the stereo separation is unusually clear and adds much to the effect. The chorus sing with very exciting attack, and what with excellent orchestral playing on baroque-style instruments and the pleasingly imminent quality on both disc and tape, these records can be strongly recommended. Had I received them in time, they would certainly have appeared in my 1985 "Critics' Choice".
Cast:
Solomon - Carolyn Watkinson
Solomon's Queen - Nancy Argenta
Queen of Sheba - Barbara Hendricks
1st Harlot - Joan Rodgers
2nd Harlot - Della Jones
Zadok - Anthony Rolfe Johnson
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Tracklist:
CD 1
01. Overture
02. Act 1. Scene 1. Your harps and cymbals
03. Praise ye the Lord
04. With pious heart
05. Almighty Power
06. Imperial Solomon - Sacred rapture
07. Throughout the land
08. Bless'd be the Lord
09. Scene 2. And see my Queen
10. Bless'd the day
11. Thou fair inhabitant - Welcome as the dawn of day
12. My blooming fair - Haste, haste
13. When thou art absent - With thee th'unshelter'd moor I'd tread
14. May no rash intruder
15. Act 2. Scene 1. From the censer
16. Prais'd be the Lord
17. Great prince - Thrice bless'd
CD 2
01. Scene 2. My sovereign liege
02. Scene 3. Thou Son of David - Words are weak
03. What says the other - Thy sentence, great king
04. Withhold, withhold the executing hand - Can I see my infant gor'd
05. Israel, attend
06. Thrice bless'd be the king
07. From the east unto the west
08. No more shall armed bands - Beneath the vine
09. Swell, swell the full chorus
10. The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
11. From Arabia's spicy shores
12. Sweep, sweep the string - Music, spread thy voice
13. Now a diff'rent measure - Shake the dome
14. Then at once from rage - Draw the tear from hopeless love
15. Next the tortur'd soul - Thus rolling surges rise
16. Thy harmony's divine
17. Thrice happy king - Golden columns
18. May peace in Salem ever dwell - Will the sun forget to streak
19. Adieu, fair queen - Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows
20. Praise the Lord
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