Joachim Carlos Martini, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Junge Kantorei - Handel: Nabal (2002)
Joachim Carlos Martini, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Junge Kantorei - Handel: Nabal (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 659 Mb | Total time: 130:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.555276.77 | Recorded: 2000
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 659 Mb | Total time: 130:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.555276.77 | Recorded: 2000
An enjoyable glimpse into a long-defunct genre, Nabal is a pastiche oratorio (or pasticcio) first performed in 1764, some five years after Handel's death. The work was compiled from Handel's music by John Christopher Smith, son of Handel's principal copyist, who inherited the composer's scores in manuscript from his father. Continuing the Handel connection, the libretto is by his old collaborator, Thomas Morell.
The story is another in the then-popular tales from the Old Testament tradition, this time concerning Nabal, a wealthy but mean-spirited old buffer who spurns David when he is in exile from the court of Saul. Nabal's wife Abigail, however, pledges her loyalty to the future king; when Nabal gets wind of this he promptly dies, leaving Abigail free to become one of David's wives. The music is drawn from a broad and eclectic cross-section of operas, oratorios, anthems and cantatas, with the addition of recitatives attributed to Smith and some tantalising musical settings simply referred to in the booklet as "source unknown".
In this live concert recorded during June 2000 the five soloists, who share the arias pretty equally, all do good service. But the chorus lacks a little fire and could be more disciplined, and the same goes for the period-instrument Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra. Conductor Joachim Carlos Martini maintains a brisk pace that helps disguise some of the scrappy sections, however, and the result, if hardly essential, is a curiosity that seasoned Handelians will want to investigate.–Mark Walker
Performer:
Nabal - Stephan MacLeod (Bass)
Abigail - Maya Boog (Soprano)
David - Knut Schoch (Tenor)
Asaph - Francine Van der Heijden (Soprano)
Shepherd - Linda Perillo (Soprano)
Junge Kantorei
Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
Conductor - Joachim Carlos Martini
Track List:
CD1:
01. Part I. Symphonia
02. Recitative: Here in the Wilderness of Paran (David)
03. Chorus: The righteous shall be had in everlasting rememberance
04. Accompagnato: Have mercy on us, Lord (David)
05. Air: Food they ask'd (David)
06. Recitative: No doubt (Asaph)
07. Air: The Lord, our guide (Asaph)
08. Chorus: The Lord, our guide
09. Recitative: How hard the woman's fate (Abigail)
10. Air: Free from discord (Abigali)
11. Recitative: Avaunt, unpleasing wretch (Nabal)
12. Air: Still fill the bowl (Nabal)
13. Ballo and Minuet
14. Gavotte
15. Siciliana
16. Air: Gay and light as yonder sheep (Shepherd)
17. Chorus: Gay and light as yonder sheep
18. Recitative: 'Tis Carmel's annual holiday (Nabal)
19. Chorus: Happy, while we reign in pleasure
20. Part II. Recitative: Asaph, 'tis well advis'd (David)
21. Air: Great Creator (David)
22. Chorus: God, who in thy heav'nly hand
23. Recitative and Accompagnato: Thus saith my Lord (Asaph)
24. Air: Grateful hearts enjoy the blessing (Asaph)
25. Recitative: Who is this David (Nabal)
26. Air: With harps new strung
27. Solo and Chorus: Come! Come! Live with pleasure (Shepherd)
28. Air and Chorus: Sing we the feast (Shepherd, Chorus)
29. Chorus: Crown with festal pomp the day
CD2:
01. Accompagnato: Thrice happy sheep (Abigail)
02. Air: Mind eternal (Abigail)
03. Recitative: Fly my good mistress (Shepherd, Abigail)
04. Accompagnato: Fell monster! (David)
05. Air: Fury in all thy terrors rise (David)
06. Accompagnato: On me, my Lord, on me (Abigali)
07. Air: Mercy, thou heavn'ly cherub (Abigail)
08. Accompagnato: Blessed be the Lord (David)
09. Chorus: All creatures upon God depend
10. Part III. Interludes
11. Accompagnato: Ah! Whence this sudden dread (Nabal)
12. Air: Oh! Who can tell the terrors (Nabal)
13. Recitative: How soon the scene is chang'd (Shepherd)
14. Chorus: By slow degrees the wrath of God
15. Recitative: A messenger, my Lord (Asaph)
16. Air: When beauty sorrow's livery wears (Asaph)
17. Recitative: True is your observation (David)
18. Air: Lovely beauty (David)
19. Recitative: Behold! Thine handmaid (Abigail)
20. Air: Come ye smiling hours (Abigail)
21. Accompagnato: Guardian angels (Shepherd)
22. Duet: Thrice happy pair (Shepherd, Asaph)
23. Solo and Chorus: Still caressing (Shepherd, Chorus)
24. Recitative: In praise, to great Jehovah (Abigail)
25. Duet: Thoughts sublime (Abigail, David)
26. Chorus: O glorious prince
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Joachim Carlos Martini, Barockorchester Frankfurt, Junge Kantorei - Handel: Nabal (2002)
