Handel - Solomon / A. Scholl, Dam-Jensen, Hagley, Bickley, Gritton, Agnew, Harvey, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh

Handel - Solomon / A. Scholl, Dam-Jensen, Hagley, Bickley, Gritton, Agnew, Harvey, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh

Handel - Solomon / A. Scholl, Dam-Jensen, Hagley, Bickley, Gritton, Agnew, Harvey, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh
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Composer: George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra: Gabrieli Consort and Players
Performer: Andreas Scholl
Performer: Inger Dam-Jensen
Performer: Susan Bickley
Performer: Susan Gritton
Performer: Alison Hagley
Performer: Peter Harvey
Performer: Paul Agnew
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 1999-07-20
Music Label: Archiv Prod Import
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Solomon: Overture (Grave) - Fuga Allegro moderato - Allegro
  2. Solomon: Act I: Chorus: Your Harps And Cymbals Sound
  3. Solomon: Act I: Air: Praise Ye The Lord
  4. Solomon: Act I: Chorus: With Pious Heart
  5. Solomon: Act I: Air: Almighty Pow'r
  6. Solomon: Act I: Accompagnato: Imperial Solomon
  7. Solomon: Act I: Air: Sacred Raptures
  8. Solomon: Act I: Chorus: Throughout The Land
  9. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: Bless'd Be The Lord
  10. Solomon: Act I: Air: What Tho' I trace
  11. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: And See My Queen
  12. Solomon: Act I: Air: Bless'd The Day
  13. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: Thou Fair Inhabitant Of Nile
  14. Solomon: Act I: Duet: Welcome As The Dawn Of Day
  15. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: Vain Are The Transient Beauties
  16. Solomon: Act I: Air: Indulge Thy Faith
  17. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: My Blooming Fair
  18. Solomon: Act I: Air: Haste To The Cedar Grove
  19. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: When Thou Art Absent
  20. Solomon: Act I: Air: With Thee Th'unshelter'd Moor
  21. Solomon: Act I: Recitative: Search Round The World
  22. Solomon: Act I: Chorus: May No Rash Intruder
Music CD 2
  1. Solomon: Act II: Chorus: From The Censer Curling Rise
  2. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: Prais'd Be The Lord
  3. Solomon: Act II: Air: When The Sun O'er Yonder Hills
  4. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: Great Prince
  5. Solomon: Act II: Air: Thrice Bless'd That Wise Discerning King
  6. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: My Sovereign Leige
  7. Solomon: Act II: Words Are Weak
  8. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: What Says The Other
  9. Solomon: Act II: Air: Thy Sentence, Great King
  10. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: Withhold, Withhold The Executing Hand!
  11. Solomon: Act II: Air: Can I See My Infant Gor'd
  12. Solomon: Act II: Accompagnato: Israel, Attend
  13. Solomon: Act II: Duet: Thrice Bless'd Be The King
  14. Solomon: Act II: Chorus: From The East Unto The West
  15. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: From Morn To Eve
  16. Solomon: Act II: Air: See The Tall Palm
  17. Solomon: Act II: Recitative: No More Shall Armed Bands
  18. Solomon: Act II: Air: Beneath The Vine
  19. Solomon: Act II: Chorus: Swell, Swell The Full Chorus
Music CD 3
  1. Solomon: Symfony
  2. Solomon: Recitative: From Arabia's spicy shores
  3. Solomon: Air: Ev'ry sight these eyes behold
  4. Solomon: Recitative: Sweep, sweep the string
  5. Solomon: Air and Chorus: Music, spread thy voice around
  6. Solomon: Air and Chorus: Now a diff'rent measure try
  7. Solomon: Recitative: Then at once from rage remove
  8. Solomon: Chorus: Draw the tear from hopeless love
  9. Solomon: Recitative: Next the tortur'd soul release
  10. Solomon: Air and Chorus: Thus rolling surges rise
  11. Solomon: Recitative: Thy harmony's divine
  12. Solomon: Air: Pious king
  13. Solomon: Recitative: Thrice happy king
  14. Solomon: Air: Golden Columns
  15. Solomon: Chorus: Praise the Lord
  16. Solomon: Recitative: Gold now is common
  17. Solomon: Air: How green our fertile pastures look!
  18. Solomon: Recitative: May peace in Salem
  19. Solomon: Air: Will the sun forget to streak
  20. Solomon: Recitative: Adieu, fair queen
  21. Solomon: Duet: Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows
  22. Solomon: Grand Chorus: The name of the wicked

Music reviews of Handel - Solomon / A. Scholl, Dam-Jensen, Hagley, Bickley, Gritton, Agnew, Harvey, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh

Music Review: Who's Afraid of English Oratorio?
Rating: 5 Stars

Unlike the other reviewers here, I'm a newcomer to Handel's oratorios. Operas like Ariodante, Rinaldo, Orlando, and Giulio Cesare made me fall in love with Handel as a composer. And now, his oratorios have made him my favorite composer, after Verdi.

Handel's oratorios can be even more thrilling than his operas. For example, there are practically no choruses in his operas. You are lucky if you get a duet or two. The arias from his oratorios are less ornate than those of his operas, but on the other hand they are not just vacuous, florid displays, either. Also, for those whose native tongue is English, there is there is the joy of hearing how music sung in English can be as beautiful as that sung in other languages.

Anyhow, if you aren't a religious person, don't let the sacred themes faze you. Any lover of finely composed music will be in a state of absolute bliss.

I bought this recording of Solomon because of Andreas Scholl, one of my favorite singers. Another reviewer here lambasts him for being in love with his own voice. So what? I'm in love with his voice, too. Sure, a couple of arias move rather slowly. But his next oratorio for McCreesh, Saul, proves that he can be more dramatically engaged, if he wants.

Speaking of Saul, I suppose that I like that oratorio more than Solomon, only because it is a continuous narrative, instead of a series of vignettes, like Solomon. Still, Solomon is still a glorious work of music. I find myself listening to the second disc the most. The opening "Happy Solomon" chorus thrills me every time. McCreesh's powerhouse chorus is sheer perfection, and the orchestration is dazzling. Again, another reviewer criticized McCreesh for conducting each chorus as if it were an anthem. Well, I for one love anthemic choruses! Some people just don't like thrilling music, I guess.

The scene with the two harlots is also compelling. The first harlot's plea of, "My cause is just, be thou my friend" contrasts strongly with the second harlot's cry of, "False is all her melting tale." The two harlot's music blends, with Solomon singing, "Justice holds the lifted scale." This is a very inspired use of counterpoint, by Handel. As an aside, Scholl is dramatically focused when he says, "Divide the child." That line gets me each time I hear it. The second harlot is deliciouly wicked when she sings, "Thy sentence, o king, is prudent and wise."

In my opinion, no Handel collection is complete without Paul McCreesh / Andreas Scholl's recordings of Solomon and Saul.
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This complete, uncut account of one of Handel's greatest biblical oratorios is a must-have for fans of the baroque--indeed, of magnificent and thrilling music, period. Under Paul McCreesh's direction, and with star countertenor Andreas Scholl in the title role headlining a splendid group of soloists, Solomon contains powerhouse choruses, haunting arias, and some of Handel's most vividly drawn characters. --Thomas May
It's been conventional wisdom for several generations that Solomon, great oratorio though it may be, contains a lot of deadwood; conductors have regularly cut some items and changed the order of others. (Even John Eliot Gardiner's excellent recording cuts about 30 minutes of music.) Leave it to Paul McCreesh to give us the complete score--and demonstrate that Handel's original structure makes plenty of sense and that every number is worthwhile. What's more, McCreesh's performance is two and a half hours of just about nonstop magnificence. You'd think nobody could surpass Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir for precision and energy, but the Gabrieli Consort & Players do it: they're wondrously vivid, responsive to nuance, and clear in their diction. (By the way, DG's recording has thrilling separation in the double choruses.) As marvelous as Gardiner's soloists are, McCreesh's are just about their equals (though Inger Dam-Jensen as Solomon's Queen lets vibrato get the better of her first aria); Susan Gritton, Paul Agnew, and Peter Harvey in particular combine beautiful sound and diction with imaginative embellishments. Then there's the title role: yes, Handel wrote it for a female mezzo, but Andreas Scholl gives such an attractive-sounding and spirited performance that any complaint of inauthenticity seems like pedantic caviling. --Matthew Westphal

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