Handel: Solomon

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Release Date: 10th Oct 1985
Catalogue No: 4126122
Label: Philips
Series: Opera Sets
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 1

Work length54:32

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Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Nancy Argenta (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1984-06

Overture

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"Your harps and cymbals"

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"Praise ye the Lord"

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"With pious heart"

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"Almighty Power"

Track length2:57

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"Imperial Solomon" - "Sacred rapture"

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"Throughout the land"

Track length3:29

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"Bless'd be the Lord" - "What though I trace"

Track length7:00

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"And see my Queen"

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"Bless'd the day"

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"Thou fair inhabitant" - "Welcome as the dawn of day"

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"My blooming fair" - "Haste, haste"

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"When thou art absent" - "With thee th'unshelter"

Track length2:21

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"May no rash intruder"

Track length3:16

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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 2

Work length46:03

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Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1984-06

"From the censer"

Track length5:05

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"Prais'd be the Lord" - "When the sun"

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"Great prince" - "Thrice bless'd"

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"My sovereign liege"

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"Thou son of David " - "Words are weak"

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"What says the other" - "Thy sentence, great king"

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"Withhold the executing hand" - "Can I see my infant gor'd"

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"Israel' attend"

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"Thrice bless'd be the king"

Track length3:58

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"From the east unto the west"

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"No more shall armed bands" - "Beneath the vine"

Track length6:23

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"Swell, swell the full chorus"

Track length2:43

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Handel: Solomon HWV 67 / Act 3

Work length35:13

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Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1984-06
Recording Venue: St. John's, Smith Square

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Track length3:01

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"From Arabia's spicy shores"

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"Sweep, sweep the string" - "Music, spread thy voice"

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"Now a diff'rent measure" - "Shake the dome"

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"Then at once from rage" - "Draw the tear"

Track length3:18

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"Next the tortur'd soul" - "Thus rolling surges rises"

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"Thy harmony's divine"

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"Thrice happy king" - "Golden columns"

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"May peace in Salem ever dwell" - "Will the sun for- get to streak"

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"Adieu, fair queen" - "Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows"

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"Praise the Lord"

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Handel: Solomon

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