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Handel Edition Volume 5 - Semele, Israel in Egypt, etc

Norma Burrowes (Semele), Della Jones (Juno), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Jupiter), Timothy Penrose (Athamas), Robert Lloyd (Cadmus), Maldwyn Davies (Apollo), Patrizia Kwella (Iris), Catherine Denley (Ino), David Thomas (Somnus), Elisabeth Priday (Cupid)

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, English Baroque...

Koopman re-creates something of the occasion in his colourful interpretation of Handel's orchestration and in his pacing of the work. The expressive and dulcet oboe tone produced by Ku Ebbinge... — Gramophone Magazine More…
  • Release Date: 11th Aug 2008
  • Catalogue No: 2564696118
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Series: Handel Edition
  • Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Semele

Work length2:34:10
$61.10
$79.90
  • Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Timothy Penrose (countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Robert Lloyd (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), David Thomas (bass)
  • English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Semele : Overture to Act 1

Track length7:18
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Semele HWV58 : Act 1 "Behold! Auspicious flashes rise" [Priest]

Track length1:46
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Act 1 "Lucky omens bless our rites" [Chorus] "Daughter obey" [Cadmus, Athamas]

Track length4:38
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Act 1 "Ah me! What refuge now is left me?" "O Jove! in pity teach me which to choose" [Semele] "Alas, she yields" [Ino, Athamas]

Track length3:52
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Act 1 "Why dost thou untimely grieve" [Cadmus, Ino, Athamas, Semele]

Track length3:23
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Semele HWV58 : Act 1 "Avert these omens, all ye pow'rs!" [Chorus] "Again auspicious flashes rise" [Cadmus] "Thy aid, pronubial Juno" [Athamas, Semele]

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Act 1 "Cease, cease your vows" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Oh Athamas; what torture hast thou borne!" [Athamas] "Turn, hopeless lover" [Ino] "Ah me, what have I heard!" [Athamas]

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Act 1 "You've undone me" [Ino, Athamas]

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Act 1 "Ah, wretched prince" [Cadmus, Athamas] "Wing'd with our fears" [Cadmus]

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Semele HWV58 : Act 1 "See, see! Jove's Priests and holy Augurs come" [Cadmus] "Hail Cadmus, hail!" [Chorus]

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Act 1 "Endless pleasure" [Semele]

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Act 1 "Endless pleasure" [Chorus]

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Act 2 Symphony "Iris, impatient of thy stay" [Juno, Iris]

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Act 2 "Look, where Cithaeron proudly stands" [Iris] "There, from mortal cares retiring" [Iris] "No more!" [Juno] "Awake Saturnia from thy lethargy" [Juno, Iris]

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Act 2 "Hence, Iris, hence away!" (Juno)

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Act 2 "Come, Zephyrs, come" [Cupid] "O sleep, why dost thou leave me?" [Semele]

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Act 2 "Let me not another moment" [Semele]

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Semele : Act 2 "Lay your doubts and fears aside" "You are mortal" [Jupiter]

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Act 2 "With fond desiring" [Semele]

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Act 2 "How engaging, how endearing" [Chorus] "Ah me! Why sighs my Semele?" [Semele, Jupiter]

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Act 2 "Too well I read her meaning" [Jupiter] "I must with speed amuse her" [Jupiter]

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Act 2 "Now Love" [Chorus]

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Act 2 "By my command" [Jupiter, Semele]

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Semele : Act 2 "See, she appears" [Jupiter] "Where'er you walk" [Jupiter]

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Act 2 "Dear sister, how was your journey hither?" [Semele, Ino] "But hark! the heav'nly sphere turns round" [Ino]

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Act 2 "Prepare then, ye immortal choir" [Semele, Ino]

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Act 2 "Bless the glad earth" [Chorus]

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Act 3 Symphony "Somnus, awake!" [Juno, Iris]

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Act 3 "Leave me, loathsome light!" [Somnus] "Dull God, canst thou attend the water's fall" [Iris, Juno]

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Act 3 "More sweet is that name" [Somnus] "My will obey, she shall be thine" [Juno, Somnus]

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Act 3 "Obey my will" [Juno, Somnus]

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Act 3 "My racking thoughts" [Semele]

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Act 3 "Thus shap'd like Ino" [Juno, Semele]

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Act 3 "O ecstasy of happiness!" [Semele] "Myself I shall adore" [Semele] "Be wise, as you are beautiful" [Juno, Semele]

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Act 3 "Conjure him by his oath" [Juno]

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Act 3 "Thus let my thanks be pay'd" [Semele] "Rich odours fill the fragrant air" [Semele, Juno]

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Act 3 "Come to my arms" [Jupiter] "Oh Semele! Why art thou thus insensible?" [Jupiter]

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Act 3 "I ever am granting" (Semele),..."Then cast off this human shape" (Semele)

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Act 3 "Ah, take heed what you press!" [Jupiter]

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Act 3 "No, no, I'll take no less" [Semele]

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Act 3 "Ah, whither is she gone!" [Jupiter]

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Semele HWV58 : Act 3 "Above measure is the pleasure" [Juno]

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Semele : Act 3 "Ah, me! too late I now repent" [Semele]

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Act 3 "If my ill-boding dream" [Ino] "Oh terror and astonishment!..." [Chorus] "Nature to each allots his proper sphere" [Chorus]

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Act 3 "See from above the bellying clouds descend" [Cadmus] Sinfonia "Apollo comes to relieve your care" [Apollo]

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Act 3 "Happy, happy shall we be" [Chorus]

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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54

Work length1:33:40
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  • Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), William Kendall (tenor), Daryl Greene (soprano), Julian Clarkson (countertenor), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Brian Gordon (countertenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Christopher Royall (countertenor), Charles Stewart (bass)
  • Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Israel in Egypt : Overture "Lamentations of the Israelites for the death of Joseph"

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Exodus "Now there arose" [Tenor]

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Exodus "And the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage" [Counter-Tenor, Chorus]

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Exodus "Then sent He Moses" [Tenor]

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Exodus "They loathed to drink" [Chorus]

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Exodus "Their land brought" [Counter-Tenor]

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Exodus "He spake the word" [Chorus]

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Exodus "He gave them hailstones" [Chorus]

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Exodus "He sent a thick darkness" [Chorus]

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Exodus "He smote all the first-born" [Chorus]

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Exodus "But as for His people" [Chorus]

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Exodus "Egypt was glad" [Chorus]

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Israel in Egypt : Exodus "He rebuked the Red Sea" [Chorus]

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Israel in Egypt, HWV54 : Exodus "He led them" [Chorus]

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Exodus "But the waters" [Chorus]

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Exodus "And Israel saw" [Chorus]

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Exodus "And believed the Lord" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "Moses, and the children" [Chorus]

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Israel in Egypt HWV54 : Moses' song "I will sing" [Chorus]

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Israel in Egypt : Moses' song "The Lord is my strength" [Sopranos]

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Moses' song "He is my God" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "And I will exalt him" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "The Lord is a man of war" [Basses]

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Israel in Egypt : Moses' song "The depths have covered them" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "Thy right hand" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "And in the greatness" [Chorus]

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Israel in Egypt : Moses' song "Thou sentest forth" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "And with the blast" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "The enemy said" [Tenor]

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Moses' song "Thou didst blow" [Soprano]

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Moses' song "Who is like unto Thee" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "The earth swallowed them" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "Thou in thy mercy" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor]

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Moses' song "The people shall hear" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "Thou shalt bring" [Counter-Tenor]

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Moses' song "The Lord shall reign" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "For the horse of Pharoah" [Tenor]

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Moses' song "The Lord shall reign" [Chorus]

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Moses' song "And Miriam the prophetess" [Tenor]

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Moses' song "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriusly! The Lord shall reign..." [Soprano, Chorus]

Track length3:26
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Handel: The Ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264

Work length44:06
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  • Norma Burrowes (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Martyn Hill (tenor), Charles Brett (countertenor)
  • Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

I Sinfonia

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II. The ways of Zion do mourn (Chorus)

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III "How are the mighty fall'n" [Chorus]

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IV "She put on righteousness" [Chorus]

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V "When the ear heard her" [Chorus, Bass, Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Soprano]

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VI "How are the mighty fall'n!" [Chorus]

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VII "She deliver'd the poor that cried" [Chorus]

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VIII "How are the mighty fall'n!" [Chorus]

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IX "The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance" [Chorus, Bass, Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Soprano]

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X "Their bodies are buried in peace" [Chorus]

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XI "The people will tell of their wisdom" [Chorus]

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XII "They shall receive a glorious kingdom" [Chorus, Bass, Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Soprano]

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XIII "The merciful goodness of the Lord endureth forever" [Chorus]

Track length3:46
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Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV258 'Zadok the Priest'

Work length7:05
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  • Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV47

Work length1:55:47
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  • Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Barbara Schlick (soprano), Klaus Mertens (bass), Nancy Argenta (soprano), Guillemette Laurens (vocals), Guy de Mey (tenor)
  • Ton Koopman

Act 1 Sonata

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Act 1 "Disserratevi, o porte d'Averno!" [Angelo]

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Act 1 "Qual'insolita luce" [Lucifero]

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Act 1 "Caddi, è ver, ma nel cadere" [Lucifero]

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Act 1 "Ma che veggio?" [Lucifero, Angelo]

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Act 1 "Chi sei?" [Lucifero, Angelo]

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Act 1 "D'amor fu consiglio" [Angelo]

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Act 1 "E ben, questo tuo Nume" [Lucifero, Angelo]

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Act 1 "O voi, dell'Erebo" [Lucifero]

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Act 1 "Notte, notte funesta" [Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Ferma l'ali, e sui miei lumi" [Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Concedi, o Maddalena" [Maddalena, Cleofe]

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Act 1 "Piangete, sì, piangete" [Cleofe]

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Act 1 "Ahi, dolce mio Signore" [Maddalena, Cleofe]

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Act 1 "Dolci chiodi, amate spine" [Maddalena, Cleofe]

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Act 1 "O Cleofe, O Maddalena" [San Giovanni, Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Quando è parto dell'affetto" [San Giovanni]

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Act 1 "Ma dinne, e sarà vero" [San Giovanni, Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Naufragando va per l'onde" [Cleofe]

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Act 1 "Itene pure, o fide" [San Giovanni, Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Così la tortorella" [San Giovanni]

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Act 1 "Se Maria dunque spera" [Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Ho un non so che nel cor" [Maddalena]

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Act 1 "Uscite pure, uscite" [Angelo]

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Act 1 "Il Nume vincitor" [Angelo, Chorus]

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Introduction to Act 2

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Act 2 "Di quai nuovi portenti" [San Giovanni]

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Act 2 "Ecco il sol, ch'esce dal mare" [San Giovanni]

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Act 2 "Ma ove Maria dimora" [San Giovanni]

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Act 2 "Risorga il mondo" [Angelo]

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Act 2 "Di rabbia indarno freme" [Angelo]

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Act 2 "Misero! ho pure udito" [Lucifero, Angelo]

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Act 2 "Per celare il nuovo scorno" [Lucifero]

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Act 2 "O come cieco il tuo furor delira!" [Angelo]

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Act 2 "Impedirlo saprò" [Lucifero, Angelo]

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Act 2 "Amica, troppo tardo" [Maddalena, Cleofe]

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Act 2 "Per me già di morire" [Maddalena]

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Act 2 "Ahi, abborrito nome!" [Lucifero]

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Act 2 "Vedo il Ciel che più sereno" [Cleofe]

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Act 2 "Cleofe, siam giunte al luogo... Donne, voi ricercate di Gesù Nazareno ove giacque" [Maddalena, Cleofe, Angelo]

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Act 2 "Se per colpa di donna infelice" [Angelo]

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Act 2 "Mio Gesù, mio Signore" [Maddalena]

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Act 2 "Del ciglio dolente" [Maddalena]

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Act 2 "Sì, sì, cerchiamo pure" [Cleofe]

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Act 2 "Augelletti, ruscelletti" [Cleofe]

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Act 2 "Dove sì frettolosi" [San Giovanni, Cleofe]

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Act 2 "Caro Figlio!" [San Giovanni]

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Act 2 "Cleofe, Giovanni, udite" [Maddalena, San Giovanni, Cleofe]

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Act 2 "Se impassible, immortale" [Maddalena]

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Act 2 "Sì, sì, col Redentore" [San Giovanni, Cleofe, Maddalena]

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Act 2 "Diasi lode in Cielo, in terra" [Chorus]

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Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232

Work length34:45
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  • Charles Brett (countertenor), Richard Morton (tenor), John Angelo Messana (countertenor), Felicity Palmer (soprano), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Charles Brett (tenor), Alastair Thompson (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass)
  • Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner

I Dixit Dominus [Soprano, Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Chorus]

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II Virgam virtutis tuae [Counter-Tenor]

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III Tecum principium in die virtutis [Soprano]

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IV Juravit Dominus [Chorus]

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V Tu es sacerdos in aeternum [Chorus]

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VI Dominus a dextris tuis [Sopranos, Tenors, Bass, Chorus]

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VII De torrente in via bibet [Sopranos, Chorus]

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VIII Gloria Patri, et Filio [Chorus]

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