Handel's Judas Maccabaeus
Handel (or Haendel) - Judas Maccabaeus - Chœur de chambre de Namur , Les Agrémens, Dir: Leonardo García Alarcón
2 CD | AAC 256 kbps (VBR) | 262,4 Mo (zip)
March 2010 | 2 CD Box | Classical
2 CD | AAC 256 kbps (VBR) | 262,4 Mo (zip)
March 2010 | 2 CD Box | Classical
Judas Maccabaeus, one of the most popular (and lucrative) oratorios of Handel's career, in the first new complete recording for 15 years, marking the 5th anniversary of the Ambronay label and from the 30th year of the Festival. Composed to celebrate an English victory, Judas Maccabaeus, combines celebration and scenes of hope, national aspiration and vocal jubilation.
This sumptuous oratorio, packed full of ‘patriotic hits’, is given here a complete recording which incorporates the artistic and musicological developments of the past 15 years. Leonardo García Alarcón invests this new score with an abundance of delicate and generous emotion, and a very Italian baroque voice. This live double album marks the beginning of a promising new partnership between the Namur Chamber Choir, Ambronay and the young Argentinian conductor with a "breathtaking" talent
“To imagine a German musician surrounded by Italian soloists, an English choir and French dance musicians, in order to celebrate freedom through that of the Jewish people, is a real pleasure for the soul. This richness, born out of diversity, has led to an artistic result which is neither uniform nor homogenous, but deeply baroque; the baroque being above all the art of the confrontation of cultures, the richness of variatio and the exploration of contradictory and opposing modes of expression.” - Leonardo García Alarcón
This sumptuous oratorio, packed full of ‘patriotic hits’, is given here a complete recording which incorporates the artistic and musicological developments of the past 15 years. Leonardo García Alarcón invests this new score with an abundance of delicate and generous emotion, and a very Italian baroque voice. This live double album marks the beginning of a promising new partnership between the Namur Chamber Choir, Ambronay and the young Argentinian conductor with a "breathtaking" talent
“To imagine a German musician surrounded by Italian soloists, an English choir and French dance musicians, in order to celebrate freedom through that of the Jewish people, is a real pleasure for the soul. This richness, born out of diversity, has led to an artistic result which is neither uniform nor homogenous, but deeply baroque; the baroque being above all the art of the confrontation of cultures, the richness of variatio and the exploration of contradictory and opposing modes of expression.” - Leonardo García Alarcón
Handel's Judas Maccabaeus
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus Leonardo Garcia Alarcon
Live Ambronay AMY 25 / 03 / 2010
Maria Soledad de la Rosa, Mariana Rewerski, Fabián Schofrin, Makoto Sakurada, Alejandro Meerapfel, Etienne Debaisieux
AMY024 Total Timing CD1 60'04 / CD1 60'05
Live Ambronay AMY 25 / 03 / 2010
Maria Soledad de la Rosa, Mariana Rewerski, Fabián Schofrin, Makoto Sakurada, Alejandro Meerapfel, Etienne Debaisieux
AMY024 Total Timing CD1 60'04 / CD1 60'05
CD1
1 Overture 00:05:27
2 Chorus: Mourn ye afflicted children 00:03:35
3 Recitative: Well may your sorrows 00:01:22
4 Duet: From this dread scene 00:02:19
5 Chorus: For Sion lamentation make 00:02:13
6 Recitative: Not vain is all this storm of grief 00:00:56
7 Air: Pious orgies, pious airs 00:03:29
8 Chorus: O Father 00:02:04
9 Accompagnato: I feel the deity 00:00:57
10 Air: Arm Ye brave 00:02:39
11 Chorus: We come, in bright array 00:01:00
12 Recitative: Tis well, my friends 00:00:42
13 Air: Call forth thy powers 00:01:44
14 Recitative: To Heaven's almighty King 00:00:29
15 Air: O liberty 00:02:01
16 Duet: Come ever smiling liberty 00:00:50
17 Chorus: Lead on lead on 00:00:54
18 Recitative: So will'd my father 00:01:05
19 Chorus: Disdainful of danger 00:01:34
20 Recitative: Ambition 00:00:16
21 Air: No Unhallow'd desire 00:01:57
22 Chorus: Hear us O Lord 00:03:39
23 Chorus: Fall'n is the foe 00:03:06
24 recitative: Victorious hero 00:00:45
25 Air: So rapid thy course is 00:04:13
26 Recitative: Well may we hope 00:00:20
27 Duet: Sion now 00:05:19
28 Recitative: Oh let eternal honours 00:00:35
29 Air: From mighty kings 00:06:19
30 Duet: Hail, hail 00:02:06
CD 2
1 Recitative: Thanks to my brethren 00:00:41
2 Air: How vain is man 00:04:40
3 Recitative: O Judas 00:00:49
4 Air: Ah wretched 00:05:46
5 recitative: Be comforted 00:00:44
6 Air: The Lord worketh wonders 00:02:41
7 recitative: My arms 00:00:22
8 Air: Sound an alarm 00:03:44
9 Solemn march during the circumvention of the ark of the Covenant 00:01:17
10 Recitative: Enough To Heaven 00:00:46
11 Air: With pious hearts 00:02:12
12 Recitative: Ye worshippers no more in Sion 00:01:14
13 Duet: Oh never bow we down 00:05:27
14 Introdution 00:01:32
15 Air: Father of Heaven 00:06:01
16 Accompagnato: See see yon flames Oh grant it 00:01:03
17 Air: So shall the lute 00:03:46
18 Recitative: From Capharsalama 00:00:42
19 Air: Cease thy anguish 00:02:42
20 Recitative: Yet more Nicanor 00:00:38
21 Chorus: See the conquering hero comes 00:02:59
22 Chorus: Sing unto God 00:02:25
23 Recitative: Sweet flow the strains 00:00:54
24 Air: With honour let desert be crown'd 00:02:57
25 Recitative: Peace to my countrymen 00:00:39
26 Recitative: Again to earth 00:00:59
27 Duet: O lovely peace 00:02:43
28 Air: Rejoice O Judah Alleluia Amen 00:03:31
Handel's Judas Maccabaeus