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Saul (Oratorio in 3 Atti) by Handel Georg Friedri

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• Artist:Handel Georg Friedri
• Media:Audio CD
• Label: Harmonia Mundi
• Released: 05 September 2005
• Barcode: 0794881781768
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• • Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro - Andante Larghetto
  • How excellent Thy name, o Lord
  • An infant raised by thy command/Along the monster atheist strode
  • The youth inspired by Thee, o Lord/How excellent Thy name, o Lord
  • He comes, he comes! - O God-like youth!/Behold, o King, the brave, victorious youth
  • O king, your favors with delight/Oh early piety!
  • What abject thoughts a prince can have!/Yet think, on whom this honour you bestow
  • Birth and fortune I despise!
  • Go on, illustrious pair!/While yet thy tide of blood runs high
  • 16. Recitative (Saul, Merab): Thou, Merab, First In Birth, Be First In Honour - 17. Air (Merab): My Soul Rejects The Thought With Scorn - 18. Air (Michal): See, With What A Scornful Air - 19. Air (Michal): Ah, Lovely Youth, Wast Thou Designed
  • Andante allegro/Already see the daughters of the land/Welcome, welcome, mighty king!
  • What do I hear?/David his ten thousand slew/To him ten tousands/With rage I shall start burst his praises to hear
  • Imprudent women!/Feel rage and black despair possessed
  • This but the smallest part of Harmony/By thee this universal frame
  • Racked with infernal pains/O Lord, whose mercies numberless
  • Largo/'Tis all in vain, his fury still continues
  • A serpent, in my bosom warmed/Has he escaped my rage?
  • Capricioius Man
  • O filial piety!/No, cruel father, no!
  • O Lord, whose providence/Preserve him for the Glory of Thy name
  • Envy! eldest born of hell!
  • Ah! dearest friend/But sooner Jordan' stream, I swear
  • Oh strange vicissitude!/Such haughty beauties rather move
  • My father comes/Has thou obeyed my orders
  • Sin not, o king, against the youth/As great Jehovah lives/From cities stormed, and battles won
  • Appear, my friend/Your words, o king, my loyal heart/Yes, he shall wed my daughter!
  • A father's will has authorised my love/O fairest of ten thousand fair/Is there a man
  • Largo - Allegro
  • Thy father is as cruel/At persecution I can laugh
  • Whom dost thou seek/No. no let the guilty tremble
  • Mean as he was, he is my brother now/Author of peace, who canst controul
  • Allegro
  • The time at length is come
  • Where is the son of Jesse? Oh fatal consequence of Rage
  • Wretch that I am/'Tis said, here lives a woman
  • With me what would'st thou/Infernal spirits
  • Why hast thou forced me from the realms of peace
  • Allegro
  • Whence comest thou? Impious wretch, of race accurst!
  • Grave
  • Mourn, Israel
  • Oh let it not in Gath be heard
  • From this unhappy day
  • Brave Jonathan his bow never drew/Eagles were not so swift as they
  • In sweetest harmony they lived!/O fatal day!/Ye men of Judah, weep no more!
  • Gird on thy sword, thou man of might