The King'S Consort, Robert King - Handel: Judas Maccabaeus (1992)
BAND/ARTIST: The King'S Consort, Robert King
- Title: Handel: Judas Maccabaeus
- Year Of Release: 1992
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 02:29:37
- Total Size: 623 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
CD1
01. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 1, Overture. [Grave] – Allegro – Lentement – Allegro
02. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 2, Chorus. Mourn, Ye Afflicted Children, the Remains
03. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 3, Recit. Well, May Your Sorrows, Brethren, Flow (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
04. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 4, Duet. From This Dread Scene, These Adverse Pow'rs (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
05. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 5, Chorus. For Sion Lamentation Make
06. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 6, Recit. Not Vain Is All This Storm of Grief (Israelitish Man)
07. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 7, Air. Pious Orgies, Pious Airs (Israelitish Man)
08. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 8, Chorus. O Father, Whose Almighty Pow'r
09. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 9, Recit. I Feel, I Feel the Deity Within (Simon)
10. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 10, Air & Chorus. Arm, Arm, Ye Brave! A Noble Cause (Simon)
11. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 11, Recit. 'Tis Well, My Friends; with Transport I Behold (Judas Maccabaeus)
12. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 12, Air. Call Forth Thy Pow'rs, My Soul, and Dare (Judas Maccabaeus)
13. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 13, Recit. To Heav'n's Almighty King We Kneel (Israelitish Woman)
14. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 14, Air. O Liberty, Thou Choicest Treasure (Israelitish Woman)
15. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 15, Air. Come, Ever-Smiling Liberty (Israelitish Woman)
16. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 16, Recit. O Judas, May These Noble Views Inspire (Israelitish Man)
17. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 17, Air. 'Tis Liberty, Dear Liberty Alone (Israelitish Man)
18. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 18, Duet. Come, Ever-Smiling Liberty (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
19. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 19, Chorus. Lead On, Lead On! Judah Disdains
20. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 20, Recit. So Will'd My Father, Now at Rest (Judas Maccabaeus)
21. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 21, Semi-Chorus. Disdainful of Danger, We'll Rush on the Foe
22. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Ambition! If E'er Honour Was Thine Aim (Judas Maccabaeus)
23. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 23, Air. No Unhallow'd Desire (Judas Maccabaeus)
24. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 24, Recit. Haste We, My Brethren, Haste We to the Field (Israelitish Man)
25. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 25, Chorus. Hear Us, O Lord, on Thee We Call
26. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 1, Chorus. Fall'n Is the Foe; So Fall Thy Foes, O Lord!
27. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 2, Recit. Victorious Hero! Fame Shall Tell (Israelitish Man)
28. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 3, Air. So Rapid Thy Course Is
29. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 4, Recit. Well May We Hope Our Freedom to Receive (Israelitish Man)
30. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 5, Duet & Chorus. Sion Now Her Head Shall Raise (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
31. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 6, Recit. Oh, Let Eternal Honours Crown His Name (Israelitish Woman)
32. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 7, Air. From Mighty Kings He Took the Spoil (Israelitish Woman)
CD2
01. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 8, Duet & Chorus. Hail, Hail, Judea. Happy Land! (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
02. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Thanks to My Brethren; But Look Up to Heav'n (Judas Maccabaeus)
03. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 10, Air. How Vain Is Man, Who Boasts in Fight (Judas Maccabaeus)
04. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 11, Recit. O Judas, O My Brethren! (Messenger)
05. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 12, Air & Chorus. Ah! Wretched, Wretched Israel! Fall'n, How Low (Israelitish Woman)
06. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Be Comforted, Nor Think These Plagues Are Sent (Simon)
07. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 14, Air. The Lord Worketh Wonders (Simon)
08. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 15, Recit. My Arms! Against This Gorgias Will I Go (Judas Maccabaeus)
09. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 16, Air & Chorus. Sound an Alarm! Your Silver Trumpets Sound (Judas Maccabaeus)
10. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 17, Recit. Enough! To Heav'n We Leave the Rest (Simon)
11. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 18, Air. With Pious Hearts, and Brave as Pious (Simon)
12. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 19, Recit. Ye Worshippers of God (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
13. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 20, Air. Wise Men,-Flatt'ring, May Deceive Us (Israelitish Woman)
14. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 21, Duet & Chorus. Oh! Never, Never Bow We Down (Israelitish Woman/Israelitish Man)
15. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 1, Air. Father of Heav'n! From Thy Eternal Throne (Priest)
16. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 2, Recit. See, See Yon Flames, That from the Altar Broke (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
17. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 3, Air. So Shall the Lute and Harp Awake (Israelitish Woman)
18. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 4, Recit. From Capharsalama on Eagle Wings I Fly (Messengers)
19. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 5, Chorus. See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes! (Chorus of Youths/Chorus of Virgins)
21. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 7, Chorus. Sing unto God, and High Affections Raise
22. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Sweet Flow the Strains, That Strike My Feasted Ear (Judas Maccabaeus)
23. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 9, Air. With Honour Let Desert Be Crown'd (Judas Maccabaeus)
24. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Peace to My Countrymen; Peace and Liberty (Eupolemus)
25. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 11, Chorus. To Our Great God Be All the Honour Giv'n
26. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 12, Recit. Again to Earth Let Gratitude Descend (Israelitish Woman)
27. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 13, Air. O Lovely Peace, with Plenty Crown'd (Israelitish Woman)
28. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 14, Air & Chorus. Rejoice, O Judah! and, in Songs Divine (Simon)
1745 proved to be a troublesome year for both Handel and England. In Handel’s case there was increasing opposition from fans of opera to his oratorios, a growing lack of interest amongst his regular followers and even an organized boycott by the ladies of high society, led by Lady Margaret Cecil Brown. Audiences for his regular London season thus proved thin. An ambitious run of twenty-four planned oratorio concerts (including first performances of Hercules and Belshazzar) attracted such small crowds that the composer called a halt after sixteen concerts. If he had not done so he might have risked bankruptcy. Handel must have been depressed, for when his operas had finally lost their audiences he had been able to develop a new public appeal by putting on oratorios. Now this form too seemed doomed. By the summer his health was suffering and he retired to the country to recuperate.
Nationally, a greater drama—and a considerably greater opposition—was developing, for on 2 August Prince Charles Edward, son of the Stuart Pretender to the Scottish and English thrones, landed his army in the Hebrides whilst George II was in Hanover, and started to move south: victory in September at Prestonpans caused consternation in London. The English army hastily returned from Flanders and, under the Duke of Cumberland, marched north. By 15 November Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army were already over the border, having taken Carlisle. England, and Handel, held their breath, and the Jacobites got as far south as Derby before lack of local support ensured that they were forced to start their retreat. Even then, final victory was not assured for some time. Handel, recovered from the mental disorder caused by the stress of his season’s failure, had apparently already started work on Judas Maccabaeus during autumn 1745, but shelved it at the start of 1746 in order to compose the Occasional Oratorio. This he did fast, re-using much pre-existing material so that the work could be performed on 14 February 1746 as a piece of propaganda encouraging the loyalists (the Jacobites were not yet defeated and all encouragement was needed). Only after the violent battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 was Handel sure that a victory oratorio would be necessary. He returned to the score of Judas Maccabaeus. According to the autograph he started work writing out his fair copy of Act I on ‘9 July 1746 or the 8th’ (Handel gives the alternatives), completing this on 22 July. Act II took a further week, and by 11 August the score was complete.
Handel held no oratorio season during 1746, simply performing the Occasional Oratorio three times. His next season opened at Covent Garden Theatre on 6 March 1747. For the first time, he abandoned the subscription scheme and opened the doors to all-comers, and Judas Maccabaeus opened on 1 April. According to Lord Shaftesbury it ‘went off with very great Applause’. Handel’s pocket benefited considerably: we know that after the third performance he banked £250 (this being clear profit after paying all the performers) and in the following year he made at least £800 from six performances of the work. Handel’s wider triumph was also a political and sociological one: for once the middle classes were able to attend performances alongside the higher echelons of society. With the topical draw of a victorious warlike hero, the parallels with the Duke of Cumberland proved a winner with people of all political persuasions—except, one assumes, with the now silent Jacobites!...
CD1
01. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 1, Overture. [Grave] – Allegro – Lentement – Allegro
02. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 2, Chorus. Mourn, Ye Afflicted Children, the Remains
03. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 3, Recit. Well, May Your Sorrows, Brethren, Flow (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
04. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 4, Duet. From This Dread Scene, These Adverse Pow'rs (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
05. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 5, Chorus. For Sion Lamentation Make
06. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 6, Recit. Not Vain Is All This Storm of Grief (Israelitish Man)
07. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 7, Air. Pious Orgies, Pious Airs (Israelitish Man)
08. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 8, Chorus. O Father, Whose Almighty Pow'r
09. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 9, Recit. I Feel, I Feel the Deity Within (Simon)
10. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 10, Air & Chorus. Arm, Arm, Ye Brave! A Noble Cause (Simon)
11. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 11, Recit. 'Tis Well, My Friends; with Transport I Behold (Judas Maccabaeus)
12. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 12, Air. Call Forth Thy Pow'rs, My Soul, and Dare (Judas Maccabaeus)
13. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 13, Recit. To Heav'n's Almighty King We Kneel (Israelitish Woman)
14. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 14, Air. O Liberty, Thou Choicest Treasure (Israelitish Woman)
15. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 15, Air. Come, Ever-Smiling Liberty (Israelitish Woman)
16. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 16, Recit. O Judas, May These Noble Views Inspire (Israelitish Man)
17. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 17, Air. 'Tis Liberty, Dear Liberty Alone (Israelitish Man)
18. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 18, Duet. Come, Ever-Smiling Liberty (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
19. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 19, Chorus. Lead On, Lead On! Judah Disdains
20. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 20, Recit. So Will'd My Father, Now at Rest (Judas Maccabaeus)
21. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 21, Semi-Chorus. Disdainful of Danger, We'll Rush on the Foe
22. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 22, Recit. Ambition! If E'er Honour Was Thine Aim (Judas Maccabaeus)
23. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 23, Air. No Unhallow'd Desire (Judas Maccabaeus)
24. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 24, Recit. Haste We, My Brethren, Haste We to the Field (Israelitish Man)
25. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act I: No. 25, Chorus. Hear Us, O Lord, on Thee We Call
26. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 1, Chorus. Fall'n Is the Foe; So Fall Thy Foes, O Lord!
27. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 2, Recit. Victorious Hero! Fame Shall Tell (Israelitish Man)
28. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 3, Air. So Rapid Thy Course Is
29. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 4, Recit. Well May We Hope Our Freedom to Receive (Israelitish Man)
30. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 5, Duet & Chorus. Sion Now Her Head Shall Raise (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
31. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 6, Recit. Oh, Let Eternal Honours Crown His Name (Israelitish Woman)
32. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 7, Air. From Mighty Kings He Took the Spoil (Israelitish Woman)
CD2
01. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 8, Duet & Chorus. Hail, Hail, Judea. Happy Land! (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
02. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 9, Recit. Thanks to My Brethren; But Look Up to Heav'n (Judas Maccabaeus)
03. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 10, Air. How Vain Is Man, Who Boasts in Fight (Judas Maccabaeus)
04. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 11, Recit. O Judas, O My Brethren! (Messenger)
05. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 12, Air & Chorus. Ah! Wretched, Wretched Israel! Fall'n, How Low (Israelitish Woman)
06. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 13, Recit. Be Comforted, Nor Think These Plagues Are Sent (Simon)
07. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 14, Air. The Lord Worketh Wonders (Simon)
08. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 15, Recit. My Arms! Against This Gorgias Will I Go (Judas Maccabaeus)
09. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 16, Air & Chorus. Sound an Alarm! Your Silver Trumpets Sound (Judas Maccabaeus)
10. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 17, Recit. Enough! To Heav'n We Leave the Rest (Simon)
11. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 18, Air. With Pious Hearts, and Brave as Pious (Simon)
12. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 19, Recit. Ye Worshippers of God (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
13. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 20, Air. Wise Men,-Flatt'ring, May Deceive Us (Israelitish Woman)
14. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act II: No. 21, Duet & Chorus. Oh! Never, Never Bow We Down (Israelitish Woman/Israelitish Man)
15. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 1, Air. Father of Heav'n! From Thy Eternal Throne (Priest)
16. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 2, Recit. See, See Yon Flames, That from the Altar Broke (Israelitish Man/Israelitish Woman)
17. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 3, Air. So Shall the Lute and Harp Awake (Israelitish Woman)
18. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 4, Recit. From Capharsalama on Eagle Wings I Fly (Messengers)
19. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 5, Chorus. See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes! (Chorus of Youths/Chorus of Virgins)
21. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 7, Chorus. Sing unto God, and High Affections Raise
22. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 8, Recit. Sweet Flow the Strains, That Strike My Feasted Ear (Judas Maccabaeus)
23. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 9, Air. With Honour Let Desert Be Crown'd (Judas Maccabaeus)
24. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 10, Recit. Peace to My Countrymen; Peace and Liberty (Eupolemus)
25. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 11, Chorus. To Our Great God Be All the Honour Giv'n
26. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 12, Recit. Again to Earth Let Gratitude Descend (Israelitish Woman)
27. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 13, Air. O Lovely Peace, with Plenty Crown'd (Israelitish Woman)
28. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63, Act III: No. 14, Air & Chorus. Rejoice, O Judah! and, in Songs Divine (Simon)
1745 proved to be a troublesome year for both Handel and England. In Handel’s case there was increasing opposition from fans of opera to his oratorios, a growing lack of interest amongst his regular followers and even an organized boycott by the ladies of high society, led by Lady Margaret Cecil Brown. Audiences for his regular London season thus proved thin. An ambitious run of twenty-four planned oratorio concerts (including first performances of Hercules and Belshazzar) attracted such small crowds that the composer called a halt after sixteen concerts. If he had not done so he might have risked bankruptcy. Handel must have been depressed, for when his operas had finally lost their audiences he had been able to develop a new public appeal by putting on oratorios. Now this form too seemed doomed. By the summer his health was suffering and he retired to the country to recuperate.
Nationally, a greater drama—and a considerably greater opposition—was developing, for on 2 August Prince Charles Edward, son of the Stuart Pretender to the Scottish and English thrones, landed his army in the Hebrides whilst George II was in Hanover, and started to move south: victory in September at Prestonpans caused consternation in London. The English army hastily returned from Flanders and, under the Duke of Cumberland, marched north. By 15 November Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army were already over the border, having taken Carlisle. England, and Handel, held their breath, and the Jacobites got as far south as Derby before lack of local support ensured that they were forced to start their retreat. Even then, final victory was not assured for some time. Handel, recovered from the mental disorder caused by the stress of his season’s failure, had apparently already started work on Judas Maccabaeus during autumn 1745, but shelved it at the start of 1746 in order to compose the Occasional Oratorio. This he did fast, re-using much pre-existing material so that the work could be performed on 14 February 1746 as a piece of propaganda encouraging the loyalists (the Jacobites were not yet defeated and all encouragement was needed). Only after the violent battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 was Handel sure that a victory oratorio would be necessary. He returned to the score of Judas Maccabaeus. According to the autograph he started work writing out his fair copy of Act I on ‘9 July 1746 or the 8th’ (Handel gives the alternatives), completing this on 22 July. Act II took a further week, and by 11 August the score was complete.
Handel held no oratorio season during 1746, simply performing the Occasional Oratorio three times. His next season opened at Covent Garden Theatre on 6 March 1747. For the first time, he abandoned the subscription scheme and opened the doors to all-comers, and Judas Maccabaeus opened on 1 April. According to Lord Shaftesbury it ‘went off with very great Applause’. Handel’s pocket benefited considerably: we know that after the third performance he banked £250 (this being clear profit after paying all the performers) and in the following year he made at least £800 from six performances of the work. Handel’s wider triumph was also a political and sociological one: for once the middle classes were able to attend performances alongside the higher echelons of society. With the topical draw of a victorious warlike hero, the parallels with the Duke of Cumberland proved a winner with people of all political persuasions—except, one assumes, with the now silent Jacobites!...
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