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Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63

Ryland Davies, Felicity Palmer, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Christopher Keyte, Paul Esswood

English Chamber Orchestra, Wandsworth School Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63
Mackerras's sparkling 1976 performance...is irresistable...Hearing even so hackneyed a number as 'See the conqu'ring hero' in its true scale is a delightful surprise.

Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63

Ryland Davies, Felicity Palmer, Janet Baker, John Shirley-Quirk, Christopher Keyte, Paul Esswood

English Chamber Orchestra, Wandsworth School Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras

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Mackerras's sparkling 1976 performance...is irresistable...Hearing even so hackneyed a number as 'See the conqu'ring hero' in its true scale is a delightful surprise.

Penguin Guide, 2011 edition

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Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63
Work length2:49:14
Overture
Track length7:55
2. Chorus: "Mourn, ye afflicted children"
Track length5:37
3. Recit.: "Well, may our sorrows, brethren, flow"
Track length1:22
4. Duet: "From this dread scene"
Track length2:54
5. Chorus: "For Sion lamentation make"
Track length3:35
6. Recit.: "Not vain is all the storm of grief"
Track length1:09
7. Aria: "Pious orgies, pious airs"
Track length3:47
8. Chorus: "Oh Father, whose Almighty pow'r"
Track length2:27
9. Recit.: "I feel, I fee the Deity within"
Track length1:04
10. Aria: "Arm, arm, ye brave!"
Track length3:06
11. Chorus: "We come, we come, in bright array"
Track length1:06
12. Recit.: "'Tis well, my friends"
Track length0:50
13. Aria: "Call forth thy pow'rs, my soul"
Track length2:15
14. Recit.: "To Heav'n's Almighty king we kneel"
Track length0:31
15. Aria: "Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure"
Track length2:41
16. Aria: "Come, ever-smiling liberty"
Track length3:20
17. Recit.: "Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire"
Track length0:14
18. Aria: "'Tis liberty, dear liberty alone"
Track length2:57
19. Duet: "Come, ever-smiling liberty"
Track length1:19
20. Chorus: "Lead on, lead on! Judah disdains"
Track length0:50
21. Recit.: "So will'd my father, now a rest"
Track length1:37
22. Semi-chorus: "Disdainfull of danger"
Track length2:13
23. Recit.: "Ambition! if e'er honour was thine aim"
Track length0:21
24. Aria: "No unhallow'd desire"
Track length2:26
25. Recit.: "Haste we, my brethren"
Track length0:12
26. Chorus: "Hear us Lord, on thee we call"
Track length3:42
27. Chorus: "Fall'n is the foe"
Track length3:25
28. Recit.: "Victorious hero! Fame shall tell"
Track length0:46
29. Aria: "So rapid thy course is"
Track length4:26
30. Recit.: "Well, may we hope our freedom to receive"
Track length0:21
31. / 32. Duet and Chorus:"Sion now her head shall rise"
Track length6:46
33. Recit.: "Oh let eternal honours crown his name"
Track length0:32
34. Aria: "From mighty kings he took the spoil"
Track length8:13
35. / 36. Duet and Chorus: "Hail, hail, Judea, happy land!"
Track length2:16
37. Recit.: "Thanks to my brethren, but look up to Heav'n"
Track length0:48
38. Aria: "How vain is man, who boasts in fight"
Track length5:57
39. Recit.: "Oh Judas, oh my brethren!"
Track length0:48
40. / 41. Aria and chorus: "Ah! wretched, wretched Israel!"
Track length6:29
42. Recit.: "Be comforted"
Track length0:44
43. Aria: "The Lord worketh wonders"
Track length3:05
44. Recit.:"My arms! - against this Gorgias will I go"
Track length0:26
45. Aria: "Sound an alarm!" 46. Chorus: "We hear, we hear the pleasing dreadful sound"
Track length4:43
47. Recit.: "Enough!" To Heav'n we leave the rest"
Track length0:49
48. Aria: "With pious hearts, and brave as pious"
Track length2:38
49. Recit.: "Ye worshippers of God"
Track length1:17
50. Aria: "Wise men, flatt'ring, may deceive us"
Track length5:58
51. Duet: "Oh! never, never bow we down" - 52. Chorus: We never, never will bow down
Track length6:54
53. Aria: "Father of Heav'n! from Thy eternal throne"
Track length7:08
54. Recit.: "See, see yon flames"
Track length0:47
55. Recit.: "Oh grant it, Heav'n"
Track length0:32
56. Aria: "So shall the lute and harp awake"
Track length4:32
57. Recit.: "From Capharsalama, on eagle wings I fly"
Track length1:25
58. "See, The Conqu'ring Hero Comes!..See, The Godlike Youth Advance!...See, The Conqu'ring Hero Comes!"
Track length2:49
59. March
Track length1:46
60. Chorus: "Sing unto God"
Track length2:54
61. Recit.: " Sweet flow the strains"
Track length1:17
62. Aria: "With honour let desert be crown'd"
Track length3:19
63. Recit: "Peace to my countrymen"
Track length0:49
64. Chorus:"To our great God be all the honours giv'n"
Track length2:28
65. Recit.: "Again to earth let gratitude descend"
Track length0:56
66. Aria, Duett:"Oh Lovely Peace, With Plenty Crown'd"
Track length8:10
67. Aria: "Rejoice, oh Judah! and in songs devine"
Track length1:51
68. Chorus: "Hallelujah! Amen!"
Track length1:40

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Mackerras's sparkling 1976 performance...is irresistable...Hearing even so hackneyed a number as 'See the conqu'ring hero' in its true scale is a delightful surprise.
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