Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54

Goodman treats this Old Testament epic as high drama, inviting a sense of awe. — Financial Times, 31st January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Dec 2014
Catalogue No: KTC1517
Label: Etcetera

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Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54

Julia Doyle (soprano), Maria Valdmaa (soprano), David Allsopp (counter tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Roderick Williams (bass), Peter Harvey (bass)
Netherlands Chamber Choir & Le Concert Lorrain
Roy Goodman

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Israel in Egypt (HWV 54 ) is without a doubt one of Georg Friedrich Handel’s most captivating oratorios. One that has an unusual role set apart for the choir. The biblical story of Israel’s crossing through the desert to the Promised Land and the plagues God spills over Egypt are sublimely captured in Handel’s score from 1738.

The Nederlands Kamerkoor and Le Concert Lorrain have recently made a very successful tour with this oratorium through France and Germany. The much-celebrated Roy Goodman conducted an intensely charged concert in the Verdener Dom during the Musikfest Bremen. The riveting concert was recorded live by Deutschland Radio with James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Roderick Williams, David Allsopp and Julia Doyle performing the few solo parts this magnificent work of art holds.

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31st January 2015

Goodman treats this Old Testament epic as high drama, inviting a sense of awe.

March 2015

The pacing and articulation of the excellent band Le Concert Lorrain are consistently insightful and sympathetic, and the accomplished Netherlands Chamber Choir offer plenty of merits...The full range of choral moods and colours emerges successfully...Gilchrist's singing brims with dramatic vigour.

Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54

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