Handel: Solomon
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Laurie Reviol (soprano), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), Julian Podger (tenor), Steffen Balbach (bass)
Hanoverian Court Orchestra, Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Jurgen Budday
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Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act I
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
Overture
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act I Scene 1
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
Your harps and cymbals sound (Chorus of Priests)
Air. Praise ye the Lord (Levite)
With pious hearts (Chorus of Priests)
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act I Scene 2
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. And see my Queen (Solomon)
Air. Bless'd the day (Queen)
Recitative. Thou fair inhabitant of Nile - Duet. Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon, Queen)
Recitative. When thou art absent from my sight - Air. With thee th'unshelter'd moor I tread (Queen) - Recitative. Search round the world [Zadok]
May no rash intruder (Chorus)
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act II Scene 1
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
From the censer curling rise (Chorus)
Recitative. Prais'd be the Lord - Air. When the sun o'er yonder hills (Solomon)
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act II Scene 2
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. My sovereign liege, two women stand (Attendant, Solomon, First Harlots)
Air and Trio. Words Are weak to paint my Fears (First Harlot, Second Harlot, Solomon)
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act II Scene 3
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
Recitative. What says the other (Solomon, Second Harlot)
Air. Thy sentence, great king (Second Harlot) - Recitative. Withhold the executing hand [First Harlot]
Air. Can I see my infant gor'd (First Harlot)
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67, Act III
- Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Julian Podger, Steffen Balbach
- Maulbronn Chamber Choir, Hanoverian Court Orchestra
- Jürgen Budday
Sinfonia, "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
Recitative. From Arabia's spicy shores (Queen of Sheba, Solomon)
Air. Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba)