Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)
Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 147:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K&K | # KuK 67 | Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 147:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K&K | # KuK 67 | Recorded: 2004
Handel’s spectacular oratorio Belshazzar was composed in 1744, from a libretto by Charles Jennens that describes the fall of Babylon. Less successful in it’s day than the popular Italian opera, Belshazzar is a work on an imposing scale — dramatic, passionate, full of stirring choruses and solos, and a piece which Handel himself described as ‘very grand and uncommon’. The oratorio is full of invention, energy and drama with the Jewish, Babylonian Persian and Medes masses having their own distinctive musical styles that were juxtaposed to create a tense dramatic conflict. Composed in the same year as the splendid Hercules the two oratorios represent the peak of Handel’s dramatic writing. Belshazzar was a failure at the time of its first performance in 1745—contemporary reports speak of a disastrously bad performance—and the oratorio never gained popularity in Handel’s lifetime. Jürgen Budday is director of church music and artistic director of the concert series at the monastery of Maulbronn, of the cantor choir and of the Maulbronn Chamber Choir. He is one of the leading German conductors of historical and modern vocal music, and his previous concert recordings have received international acclaim, including thos of the Handel oratorios Jephtha, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus, Saul and Belshazzar may be one of Handel’s less performed works but is indisputably one of his finest, as is evident from this splendid recording in which the soloists include Mark Le Broque (Belshazzar), soprano Miriam Allan, countertenor Michael Chance and Patrick van Goethem.
Performer:
Belshazzar, Arioch - Mark LeBrocq, tenor
Nitocris - Miriam Allan, soprano
Cyrus - Patrick van Goethem, countertenor
Daniel - Michael Chance, countertenor
Gobrias, Messenger - André Morsch, bass
Maulbronner Kammerchor
Hannoversche Hofkapelle
Conductor - Jürgen Budday
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Belshazzar, HWV 61
CD1:
01. Overture
02. Act I. Scene 2: Behold, by Persia's hero made (Chorus of Babylonians)
03. Scene 2: Recitative: Well may they laugh, from meagre famine safe (Gobrias, Cyrus)
04. Scene 2: Aria: Oppress'd with never-ceasing grief (Gobrias)
05. Scene 2: Aria: Dry those unavailing tears (Cyrus)
06. Scene 2: Recitative: Be comforted (Cyrus)
07. Scene 2: Recitative: Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates (Cyrus)
08. Scene 2: Recitative: Now tell me, Gobrias, does not this Euphrates (Cyrus, Gobrias)
09. Scene 2: Aria: Behold the monstrous human beast (Gobrias)
10. Scene 2: Recitative - Aria: Can you then think it strange (Cyrus)
11. Scene 2: Recitative: My friends, be confident and boldly enter upon this high exploit (Cyrus)
12. Scene 2: All empires upon God depend (Chorus of Persians)
13. Scene 3: Aria: O sacred oracles of truth (Daniel)
14. Scene 3: Recitative: Rejoice, my countrymen! (Daniel)
15. Scene 3: Sing, O ye Heav'ns, for the Lord hath done it! (Chorus of Jews)
16. Scene 4: Aria: Let festal joy triumphant reign (Belshazzar)
17. Scene 4: Recitative: For you my friends, the nobles of my court (Belshazzar, Nitocris)
18. Scene 4: Recall, O king, thy rash command (Chorus of Jews)
19. Scene 4: Recitative: They tell you true (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
20. Scene 4: Duet: O dearer than my life, forbear (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
21. Scene 4: By slow degress the wrath of God (Chorus of Jews)
22. Act II Scene 1: See, from his post Euphrates flies (Chorus of Persians)
23. Scene 1: Recitative: You see, my friends, a path into the city lies open (Cyrus)
24. Scene 1: To arms, to arms, no more delay! (Chorus of Persians)
CD2:
01. Scene 2: Ye tutelar gods of our empire (Chorus of Babylonians)
02. Scene 2: Aria: Let the deep bowl thy praise confess (Belshazzar)
03. Scene 2: Recitative: Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r? (Belshazzar)
04. Scene 2: Chorus - Recitative: Help, help the king! (Belshazzar)
05. Scene 2: Recitative: Call all my Wise Men (Belshazzar)
06. Scene 2: Recitative: Ye sages, welcome always to your king (Belshazzar, Wise Men)
07. Scene 2: Oh, misery! Oh terror, hopeless grief! (Chorus of Babylonians)
08. Scene 2: Recitative: O king, live for ever! (Nitocris, Belshazzar)
09. Scene 2. Air: No, to thyself thy trifles be (Daniel)
10. Scene 2: Reicitative: Yet, to obey His dread command (Daniel)
11. Scene 2: Recitative: Oh, sentence too severe (Nitocris)
12. Scene 2: Air: Regard thyself: to cure thy fears (Nitocris)
13. Scene 3: Aria: O God of truth, O faithful guide (Cyrus)
14. Scene 3: Recitative: You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace (Cyrus)
15. Scene 3: O glorious prince, , thrice happy they born to enjoy thy future sway (Chorus of Persians)
16. Act III. Scene 1: Aria: Alternate hopes and fears distract my mind (Nitocris)
17. Scene 1: Recitative: My hopes revive, here Arioch comes! (Nitocris, Arioch, Messenger)
18. Scene 1: Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth! (Chorus of Jews)
19. Scene 2: Aria: I thank thee, Sesach! (Belshazzar)
20. Scene 2: A Martial Symphony
21. Scene 3: Aria: To pow'r immortal my first thanks are due (Gobrias)
22. Scene 3: Recitative: Be it thy care, good Gobrias (Cyrus)
23. Scene 3: Aria: Destructive war, thy limits know (Cyrus)
24. Scene 3: Duet: Great victor, at your feet I bow (Nitocris, Cyrus)
25. Scene 3: Recitative: Say, venerable prophet, is there aught (Cyrus, Daniel)
26. Scene 3: Tell it out among the heathen (Soloists, Chorus)
27. Scene 3: Recitative: Yes, I will build thy city, God of Israel! (Cyrus)
28. Scene 3: I will magnify Thee, O God my king (Daniel, Nitocris, Chorus)
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Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)
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