Handel Israel in Egypt

Handel Israel in Egypt

Handel Israel in Egypt

List Price: ~~$33.98~~
Our Price: $21.99
You Save: $11.99 (35%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album

Listen soundtracks from this album

Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Composer: Georg Handel
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists
Performer: Monteverdi Choir
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1992-09-08
Music Label: Erato
Soundtracks:

Music CD 1

Ov: Lamentations of the Israelites for the death of Joseph - Gardiner/Monteverdi Orch
1. Now here arose - P. Elliott
2. And the children of Isreal sighed by reason of the bondage: And their cry... - C. Royall/Monteveri Chor
3. Then he sent Moses - P. Elliott
4. They loathed to drink
5. Thier land brought - A. Stafford
6. He spake the word
7. He gave them hailstones
8. He sent a thick darkness
9. He smote all the first-born
10. But as for His people
11. Egypt was glad
12. He rubuked the Red Sea
13. He led them
14. But the waters
15. And Isreal saw
16. And believed the Lord
17. Moses & the children
18. I will sing
19. The Lord is my strength - J. Knibbs/M. Troth
20. He is my God
21. I will exault him
22. The Lord is a man of war - S. Varcoe/C. Stewart
23. The depths have covered them
24. Thy right hand
25. And in the greatness
26. Thou sentest forth
27. ANd with the blast
28. The enemy said - W. Kendall
29. Thou didst blow - D. Greene

Music CD 2

30. Who is like unto Thee
31. The earth swallowed them
32. Thou is thy mercy - B. Gordon/P. Elliott
33. The people shall hear
34. Thou shalt bring - J. Clarkson
35. The Lord shall reign
36. For the horse of Pharoah - P. Elliott
37. The Lord shall reign
38. And Miriam the prophetess - P. Elliott
39. Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously!/The Lord shall reign... - E. Priday/Monterverdi Chor
Sinfonia
1. The ways of Zion
2. How are the mighty fall'n!
3. She put on righteousness
4. When the ear heard her
5. How are the mighty fall'n!
6. She deliver'd the poor!
7. How are the mighty fall'n!
8. The righteous shall be had
9. Thier bodies are buried in peace
10. The people will tell
11. They shall receive a glorious kingdom - Solisten
12. The merciful goodness of the Lord

Music reviews of Handel Israel in Egypt

Music Review: A Handelian Delight
Rating: 5 Stars

It truly is unfortunate that the premier performance of this work is no longer available, or so it appears. Musical Heritage Society may still have it in its catalog, and if so, then it'd be worth picking up. If not, then one can only hope that it eventually gets rereleased on a budget label or appears used on Ebay, as it easily surpasses anything else out there, including Gardiner's later version with the English Baroque Soloists on Philips. I have two copies of the LP version, and they are both beginning to wear thin from repeated playing. A Handelian delight.

Description of Handel Israel in Egypt

Because Handel's Israel in Egypt was so short, he prefaced it in later performances with an arrangement of The Ways of Zion Do Mourn, also known as the Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline. Putting a half-hour of gloom and misery at the start really didn't help matters much, so here John Eliot Gardiner gives you the original funeral anthem, and if you want to hear it first, you can. Otherwise, you get a vigorous and exciting performance of Israel in Egypt, better in fact than his Philips rerecording. --David Hurwitz

Handel's epic oratorio, Israel in Egypt, here in a gripping performance by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, was a failure during Handel's lifetime. This was perhaps because of its immense variety of compositional techniques and forms. It is a virtual catalog of choral compositional methods, and thus stands outside the genre of 18th-century oratorio as such. Now, of course, it is recognized as what it is, a unique, dazzling work. --Joshua Cody

Classical CDs

Music Genres