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Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Catherine Denley (mezzo soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Michael George (bass)

The King's Consort, New College Choir, Oxford, Choristers Of Salisbury Cathedral, Robert King

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Label: Hyperion
Catalogue number: CDA66841-2
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes
Genre:
- Oratorios & Passions

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Handel: Deborah

Work length2:19:13

Yvonne Kenny (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Susan Gritton (soprano), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Colin Campbell (bass), Michael George (bass), Catherine Denley (contralto), Adrian Peacock (bass)
King's Consort, New College Choir Oxford ; Salisbury Cathedral Choristers
Robert King

Part 1 Overture. Grave – Allegro – Minuet

Track length5:56

Part 1 Scene 1 No 01. Immortal Lord of earth and skies (chorus)

Track length5:44

Part 1 Scene 1 No 02. Recitative. O Barak, favour'd of the skies (Deborah / Barak)

Track length0:38

Part 1 Scene 1 No 03. Duet. Where do thy ardours raise me? (Barak / Deborah)

Track length4:12

Part 1 Scene 1 No 04. Forbear thy doubts! to arms! away! (chorus)

Track length1:18

Part 1 Scene 1 No 05. Recitative. Since heav'n has thus his will express'd (Barak)

Track length0:29

Part 1 Scene 1 No 06. For ever to the voice of pray'r (soli / chorus)

Track length1:49

Part 1 Scene 1 No 07. Recitative. By that adorable decree (Deborah)

Track length0:47

Part 1 Scene 1 No 08. O hear thy lowly servants' pray'r (chorus)

Track length2:49

Part 1 Scene 1 No 09. Recitative. Ye sons of Israel, cease your fears (Deborah)

Track length0:24

Part 1 Scene 1 No 10. O blast, with thy tremendous brow

Track length0:50

Part 1 Scene 1 No 11. Recitative. To whomsoe'er his fate the tyrant owes (Barak)

Track length0:34

Part 1 Scene 1 No 12. Air. How lovely is the blooming fair (Barak)

Track length1:54

Part 1 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative. O Deborah! where'er I turn my eyes (Jael / Deborah)

Track length1:05

Part 1 Scene 2 No 2. Air. Choirs of angels, all around thee (Deborah)

Track length3:32

Part 1 Scene 2 No 3. Recitative. My transports are too great to tell (Jael)

Track length0:28

Part 1 Scene 2 No 4. Air. To joy he brightens my despair (Jael)

Track length3:49

Part 1 Scene 3 No 1. Recitative. Barak, my son, the joyful sound (Abinoam)

Track length0:26

Part 1 Scene 3 No 2. Air. Awake the ardour of thy breast (Abinoam)

Track length3:28

Part 1 Scene 3 No 3. Recitative. I go where heav'n and duty call (Barak)

Track length0:10

Part 1 Scene 3 No 4. Air. All danger disdaining (Barak)

Track length4:12

Part 1 Scene 3 No 5. Let thy deeds be glorious (chorus)

Track length3:09

Part 1 Scene 4 & Scene 5 No 1. Recitative. My charge is to declare (Herald / Barak / Deborah)

Track length1:19

Part 1 Scene 5 No 2. Despair all around them (chorus)

Track length5:23

Part 2 No 01. See, the proud chief advances now (chorus)

Track length4:36

Part 2 No 02. Recitative. That here rebellious arms I see (Sisera)

Track length0:31

Part 2 No 03. Air. At my feet extended low (Sisera)

Track length2:16

Part 2 No 04. Recitative. Go frown, barbarian (Deborah)

Track length0:27

Part 2 No 05. Air. In Jehovah's awful sight (Deborah)

Track length2:32

Part 2 No 06. Recitative. Yes, how your God in wonders can excel (Sisera)

Track length0:13

Part 2 No 07. Air. Whilst you boast the wondrous story (Sisera)

Track length2:45

Part 2 No 08. Air. Impious mortal, cease to brave (Barak)

Track length2:44

Part 2 No 09. Recitative. Behold the nations all around (Chief Priest of Baal)

Track length0:27

Part 2 No 10. O Baal, monarch of the skies! (chorus of Baal's priests)

Track length1:59

Part 2 No 11. Recitative. No more, ye infidels, no more! (Chief Priest of the Israelites)

Track length0:20

Part 2 No 12. Lord of eternity, who hast in store (chorus of Israelites)

Track length3:17

Part 2 No 13. Recitative. By his great name, and his alone (Deborah / Sisera)

Track length0:37

Part 2 No 14. All your boast will end in woe (soli / chorus)

Track length3:20

Part 2 No 15. Recitative. Great prophetess, my soul's on fire (Barak)

Track length0:18

Part 2 No 16. Air. In the battle, fame pursuing (Barak)

Track length6:05

Part 2 No 17. Recitative. Thy ardours warm the winter of my age (Abinoam)

Track length0:31

Part 2 No 18. Air. Swift inundation of desolation (Abinoam)

Track length2:52

Part 2 No 19. Recitative. O Judah, with what joy I see (Israelite woman)

Track length0:17

Part 2 No 20. Air. No more disconsolate I'll mourn (Israelite woman)

Track length3:09

Part 2 No 21. Recitative. Now, Jael, to thy tent retire (Deborah)

Track length0:22

Part 2 No 22. Air. O the pleasure my soul is possessing (Jael)

Track length3:31

Part 2 No 23. Recitative. Barak, we now to battle go (Deborah)

Track length0:10

Part 2 No 24. Duet. Smiling freedom, lovely guest (Deborah / Barak)

Track length4:17

Part 2 No 25. The great king of kings will aid us today (chorus)

Track length3:02

Part 3 Scene 1 No 1. A grand miltary symphony. Now the proud insulting foe (chorus of Israelites)

Track length3:33

Part 3 Scene 1 No 2. Recitative. The haughty foe whose pride to heav'n did soar (Israelite woman)

Track length0:15

Part 3 Scene 1 No 3. Air. Now sweetly smiling peace descends (Israelite woman)

Track length2:59

Part 3 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative. My pray'rs are heard, the blessings of this day (Abinoam / Barak)

Track length0:38

Part 3 Scene 2 No 2. Air. Tears, such as tender fathers shed (Abinoam)

Track length2:05

Part 3 Scene 3 No 01. Recitative. O Deborah, my fears are o'er (Jael)

Track length0:12

Part 3 Scene 3 No 02. Doleful tidings, how ye wound (chorus of Baal's priests)

Track length2:25

Part 3 Scene 3 No 03. Air. Our fears are now forever fled (Israelite woman)

Track length2:15

Part 3 Scene 3 No 04. Recitative. I saw the tyrant breathless in her tent (Barak / Jael)

Track length1:56

Part 3 Scene 3 No 05. Air. Tyrant, now no more we dread thee (Jael)

Track length4:22

Part 3 Scene 3 No 06. Recitative. If, Jael, I a right divine (Deborah)

Track length0:20

Part 3 Scene 3 No 07. Air. The glorious sun shall cease to shed (Deborah)

Track length2:22

Part 3 Scene 3 No 08. Recitative. May heav'n, with kind profusion, shed (Barak)

Track length0:14

Part 3 Scene 3 No 09. Air. Low at her feet he bow'd, he fell (Barak)

Track length3:07

Part 3 Scene 3 No 10. Recitative. O great Jehovah! may thy foes (Deborah)

Track length0:40

Part 3 Scene 3 No 11. Let our glad songs to heav'n ascend (chorus)

Track length6:47

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