Charles Jennens – Handel Saul, HWV 53 (Live) (2020) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

There are few Biblical characters more sharply drawn than Saul, the unsuspecting first king of the united monarchy of Israel and Judah, a loving pater familias at times and a fratricidal maniac at others. The Book of First Samuel becomes a page-turner from the moment Saul is introduced as “the handsomest man in Israel, standing head and shoulders above the rest” to his ignominious death in battle, a failed suicide finished off by an enemy solder. The story of the rise and fall of Saul is fraught with drama: violence, madness, mayhem, and sorcery as well as jealousy, love, and the most undeniable description of bisexual devotion to be found in the Hebrew Bible.

“With Saul Handel raised Old Testament oratorio to its highest point, and produced one of the supreme masterpieces of dramatic art, comparable with the Oresteia and King Lear in the grandeur of its theme and the certainty and skill of its execution.” So writes Winton Dean, foremost authority on Handel’s operas and oratorios, never hesitant to critique their shortcomings, and never more clearly on the mark.

Tracklist

1. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – No. 1, Overture [Live]
2. Charles Jennens – No. 2a, How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord [Live]
3. Charles Jennens – No. 3, An Infant Rais’d by Thy Command [Live]
4. Charles Jennens – No, 4, Along the Monster Atheist Strode [Live]
5. Charles Jennens – No. 5, The Youth Inspir’d by Thee, O Lord [Live]
6. Charles Jennens – No. 2b, How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord [Live]
7. Charles Jennens – No. 6, He Comes, He Comes! – No. 7, O Godlike Youth [Live]
8. Charles Jennens – No. 8, Behold, O King [Live]
9. Charles Jennens – No. 9, O King, Your Favours with Delight [Live]
10. Charles Jennens – No. 10, Oh, Early Piety! [Live]
11. Charles Jennens – No. 11, What Abject Thoughts a Prince Can Have! [Live]
12. Charles Jennens – No. 12, Yet Think on Whom This Honour You Bestow [Live]
13. Charles Jennens – No. 13, Birth and Fortune I Despise! [Live]
14. Charles Jennens – No. 16, Thou, Merab, First in Birth [Live]
15. Charles Jennens – No. 17, My Soul Rejects the Thought with Scorn [Live]
16. Charles Jennens – No. 18, See, with What a Scornful Air [Live]
17. Charles Jennens – No. 19, Ah, Lovely Youth [Live]
18. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – No. 20, Symphony “Pour les carillons” [Live]
19. Charles Jennens – No. 21, Already See the Daughters of the Land [Live]
20. Charles Jennens – No. 22, Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King! [Live]
21. Charles Jennens – No. 23, What Do I Hear? Am I Then Sunk So Low [Live]
22. Charles Jennens – No. 24, David His Ten Thousands Slew [Live]
23. Charles Jennens – No. 25, To Him Ten Thousands, and to Me but Thousands! [Live]
24. Charles Jennens – No. 26, With Rage I Shall Burst His Praises to Hear! [Live]
25. Charles Jennens – No. 27, Imprudent Women! [Live]
26. Charles Jennens – No. 28, Fell Rage and Black Despair Possess’d [Live]
27. Charles Jennens – No. 31, Racked with Infernal Pains [Live]
28. Charles Jennens – No. 32, O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless [Live]
29. Charles Jennens – No. 34, ‘Tis All in Vain [Live]
30. Charles Jennens – No. 35, A Serpent, in My Bosom Warm’d [Live]
31. Charles Jennens – No. 36, Has He Escap’d My Rage? [Live]
32. Charles Jennens – No. 37, Capricious Man, in Humour Lost [Live]
33. Charles Jennens – No. 38, O Filial Piety! [Live]
34. Charles Jennens – No. 39, No, Cruel Father, No! [Live]
35. Charles Jennens – No. 41, Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name [Live]
36. Charles Jennens – No. 42, Envy, Eldest Born of Hell [Live]
37. Charles Jennens – No. 48, Hast Thou Obey’d My Orders [Live]
38. Charles Jennens – No. 49, Sin Not, O King [Live]
39. Charles Jennens – No. 50, As Great Jehovah Lives, I Swear [Live]
40. Charles Jennens – No. 51, From Cities Storm’d, and Battles Won [Live]
41. Charles Jennens – No. 52, Appear, My Friend [Live]
42. Charles Jennens – No. 53, Your Words, O King [Live]
43. Charles Jennens – No. 54, Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter! – No. 55, A Father’s Will Has Authorized My Love [Live]
44. Charles Jennens – No. 56, O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair [Live]
45. Charles Jennens – No. 57, Is There a Man, Who All His Ways [Live]
46. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – No. 58, Symphony [Live]
47. Charles Jennens – No. 59, Thy Father Is As Cruel [Live]
48. Charles Jennens – No. 60, At Persecution I Can Laugh [Live]
49. Charles Jennens – No. 61, Whom Dost Thou Seek [Live]
50. Charles Jennens – No. 62, No, No, Let the Guilty Tremble [Live]
51. Charles Jennens – No. 63, Mean as He Was, He Is My Brother Now [Live]
52. Charles Jennens – No. 64, Author of Peace [Live]
53. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – No. 65, Symphony [Live]
54. Charles Jennens – No. 66, The Time at Length Is Come [Live]
55. Charles Jennens – No. 67, Where Is the Son of Jesse? [Live]
56. Charles Jennens – No. 68, Oh, Fatal Consequence of Rage [Live]
57. Charles Jennens – No. 69, Wretch That I Am [Live]
58. Charles Jennens – No. 70, ‘Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman [Live]
59. Charles Jennens – No. 71, With Me What Would’st Thou? [Live]
60. Charles Jennens – No. 72, Infernal Spirits [Live]
61. Charles Jennens – No. 73, Why Hast Thou Forc’d Me from the Realms of Peace [Live]
62. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – No. 74, Symphony [Live]
63. Charles Jennens – No. 75, Whence Comest Thou? [Live]
64. Charles Jennens – No. 76, Impious Wretch, of Race Accurst! [Live]
65. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra – No. 77, Dead March [Live]
66. Charles Jennens – No. 78, Mourn, Israel, Mourn [Live]
67. Charles Jennens – No. 79, Oh, Let It Not in Gath Be Heard [Live]
68. Charles Jennens – No. 80, From This Unhappy Day [Live]
69. Charles Jennens – No. 81, Brave Jonathan His Bow Never Drew [Live]
70. Charles Jennens – No. 82, Eagles Were Not so Swift as They [Live]
71. Charles Jennens – No. 83, In Sweetest Harmony They Lived [Live]
72. Charles Jennens – No. 84, O Fatal Day! How Low the Mighty Lie! [Live]
73. Charles Jennens – No. 85, Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More! [Live]
74. Charles Jennens – No. 86, Gird on Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might [Live]

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