Album · 1991
Saul
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Saul: Symphony: Allegro
Saul
4:06
2
Saul: Symphony: Larghetto
Saul
1:52
3
Saul: Symphony: Allegro
Saul
2:47
4
Saul: Symphony: Andante larghetto
Saul
3:20
5
Saul: Act One: 1. “How excellent Thy name, o Lord”
Saul
2:45
6
Saul: Act One: 2. “An infant raised” / 3. “Along the monster atheist strode”
Saul
2:32
7
Saul: Act One: 4. “The youth inspired by Thee, o Lord”
Saul
1:50
8
Saul: Act One: 5. “How excellent Thy name, o Lord”
Saul
2:20
9
Saul: Act One: 6. “He comes” / 7. “O God‐like youth”
Saul
3:07
10
Saul: Act One: 8. “Behold, o king, the brave, victorious youth”
Saul
0:46
11
Saul: Act One: 9. “O king, your favours with delight” / 10. “O early piety!”
Saul
5:16
12
Saul: Act One: 11. “What abject thoughts” / 12. “Yet think on whom this honour”
Saul
2:27
13
Saul: Act One: 13. “Birth and fortune I despise”
Saul
4:06
14
Saul: Act One: 14. “Go on, illustrious pair!” / 15. “While yet thy tide of blood”
Saul
2:32
15
Saul: Act One: 16. “Thou, Merab, first in birth” / 17. “My soul rejects” / 18. “See, with what a scornful air” / 19. “Ah, lovely youth”
Saul
3:22
16
Saul: Act One: 20. Symphony / 21. “Already see the daughters” / 22. “Welcome, welcome, mighty king!”
Saul
2:47
17
Saul: Act One: 23. “What do I hear?” / 24. “David his ten thousands slew” / 25. “To him ten thousands”
Saul
1:09
18
Saul: Act One: 26. “With rage I shall burst”
Saul
1:21
19
Saul: Act One: 27. “Imprudent women!”
Saul
0:40
20
Saul: Act One: 28. “Fell rage and black despair possessed”
Saul
2:35
21
Saul: Act One: 29. “This but the smallest part of Harmony” / 30. “By thee this universal frame”
Saul
2:36
22
Saul: Act One: 31. “Racked with infernal pains”
Saul
0:13
23
Saul: Act One: 32. “O Lord, whose mercies numberless” / 33. Symphony
Saul
5:09
24
Saul: Act One: 34. “’Tis all in vain” / 35. “A serpent, in my bosom warmed” / 36. “Has he escaped my rage?”
Saul
2:18
25
Saul: Act One: 37. “Capricious man”
Saul
3:37
26
Saul: Act One: 38. “O filial piety!”
Saul
1:23
27
Saul: Act One: 39. “No, cruel father, no!”
Saul
1:34
28
Saul: Act One: 40. “O Lord, whose providence”
Saul
1:36
29
Saul: Act One: 41. “Preserve him for the glory”
Saul
2:51
30
[Applause]
Saul
0:25
Disc 2
1
Saul: Act Two: 42. “Envy! eldest born of hell!”
Saul
2:49
2
Saul: Act Two: 43. “Ah, dearest friend”
Saul
0:33
3
Saul: Act Two: 44. “But sooner Jordan’s stream”
Saul
2:08
4
Saul: Act Two: 45. “O strange vicissitude!”
Saul
0:47
5
Saul: Act Two: 46. “Such haughty beauties”
Saul
4:17
6
Saul: Act Two: 47. “My father comes” / 48. “Hast thou obeyed my orders”
Saul
0:45
7
Saul: Act Two: 49. “Sin not, o king”
Saul
2:10
8
Saul: Act Two: 50. “As great Jehovah lives”
Saul
1:18
9
Saul: Act Two: 51. “From cities stormed”
Saul
2:13
10
Saul: Act Two: 52. “Appear, my friend”
Saul
0:31
11
Saul: Act Two: 53. “Your words, o king” / 54. “Yes, he shall wed my daughter”
Saul
1:25
12
Saul: Act Two: 55. “A father’s will”
Saul
0:28
13
Saul: Act Two: 56. “Oh fairest of ten thousand fair” / 57. “Is there a man”
Saul
4:05
14
Saul: Act Two: 58. Symphony
Saul
4:07
15
Saul: Act Two: 59. “Thy father is as cruel”
Saul
0:33
16
Saul: Act Two: 60. “At persecution I can laugh”
Saul
1:15
17
Saul: Act Two: 61. “Whom dost thou seek?”
Saul
0:30
18
Saul: Act Two: 62. “No, no let the guilty tremble”
Saul
1:27
19
Saul: Act Two: 63. “Mean as he was”
Saul
0:49
20
Saul: Act Two: 64. “Author of peace”
Saul
3:11
21
Saul: Act Two: 65. Symphony
Saul
1:14
22
Saul: Act Two: 66. “The time at length is come” / 67. “Where is the son of Jesse?”
Saul
1:33
23
Saul: Act Two: 68. “Oh fatal consequence”
Saul
5:37
Disc 3
1
Saul: Act Three: 69. “Wretch that I am” / 70. “’Tis said, here lives a woman” / 71. “With me what would’st thou?”
Saul
3:46
2
Saul: Act Three: 72. “Infernal spirits”
Saul
2:13
3
Saul: Act Three: 73. “Why hast thou forced me”
Saul
3:03
4
Saul: Act Three: 74. Symphony
Saul
0:35
5
Saul: Act Three: 75. “Whence comest thou” / 76. “Impious wretch”
Saul
2:40
6
Saul: Act Three: 77. Dead March
Saul
3:06
7
Saul: Act Three: 78. “Mourn, Israel”
Saul
3:25
8
Saul: Act Three: 79. “Oh let it not in Gath be heard”
Saul
2:07
9
Saul: Act Three: 80. “From this unhappy day”
Saul
2:53
10
Saul: Act Three: 81. “Brave Jonathan his bow never drew”
Saul
2:24
11
Saul: Act Three: 82. “Eagles were not so swift as they”
Saul
0:21
12
Saul: Act Three: 83. “In sweetest harmony”
Saul
4:28
13
Saul: Act Three: 84. “O fatal day!”
Saul
4:40
14
Saul: Act Three: 85. “Ye men of Judah, weep no more”
Saul
0:27
15
Saul: Act Three: 86. “Gird on thy sword”
Saul
5:17
16
[Applause]
Saul
0:28
In print
First pressed 1991, still pressed 2007 — 5 pressings across 3 countries.
Credits
George Cramer
Art Direction
Louwrens Langevoort
Artists And Repertoire
George Frideric Handel
Composer
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor
Everett Porter
Editor
Erwin de Ceuster
Engineer
Onno Scholtze
Engineer
Stan Taal
Engineer
François-Xavier Pascal Fabre
Illustration
Anthony Hicks
Liner Notes
Bernd Baselt
Liner Notes
Jean-François Labie
Liner Notes
Marguerite Dutour
Liner Notes
Olimpio Cescatti
Liner Notes
Paolo Fabbri (2)
Liner Notes
English Baroque Soloists
Performing Orchestra
[anonymous]
Photography
Gérard Ansellem
Photography
Hanya Chlala
Photography
Richard Holt
Photography
Robert Carpenter-Turner
Photography
Wilhelm Hellweg
Producer
Alastair Miles
Vocal · bass vocals [saul]
Donna Brown
Vocal · soprano vocals [merab]
John Mark Ainsley
Vocal · tenor vocals [jonathan]
Lynne Dawson
Vocal · soprano vocals [michal]
Monteverdi Choir
Vocal · choir
Neil Mackie
Vocal · tenor vocals [high priest]
Philip Salmon
Vocal · tenor vocals [witch of endor]
Philip Slane
Vocal · tenor vocals [abner & amalekite]
Richard Savage
Vocal · bass vocals [samuel]
Ruth Holton
Vocal · soprano vocals [solo (no. 2)]
Simon Oberst
Vocal · bass vocals [doeg]