Various - George Frederic Handel: Occasional Oratorio HWV 62 [Julia Doyle; Ben Johnson; Peter Harvey] [Br Klassik: 900520] [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.For his Occasional Oratorio, composed in 1746 in an age of personal and political upheaval, Handel made generous use of much of his own earlier material, and this resulted in something quite close to an anthology: a choice collection of his most beautiful and most famous pieces x96 a 'Best Of', as it were. The Messiah librettist Charles Jennens complained loudly that the oratorio was a triumph for a victory not yet gain'd', and that its libretto, by a certain Newburgh Hamilton, was an 'inconceivable jumble of John Milton and Edmund Spenser'. Nevertheless, the Occasional Oratorio offers the modern listener magnificent and largely familiar melodies, highly virtuosic Baroque arias, moving choruses and, above all, a magnificent Late Baroque sound that, in this extremely compact score, is quite unique. Audiences at the time probably considered this to be 'Handel at his best', and today's public doubtlessly shares that opinion. This virtuoso and colourful interpretation, recorded recently on February 11, 2017 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, was an exemplary success, delighting the audience and the trade press alike. Howard Arman conducted the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Akademie fxfcr Alte Music Berlin with its historically informed performance practice, and a line-up of highly talented English soloists. This concert recording is also the world's first recording of the Occasional Oratorio according to the historically researched and edited score of the Neue Hallische Handel edition.'

Disc 1

1. Overture

2. Why Do the Gentiles Tumult

3. Let Us Break Off By Strength of Hand

4. Oh Lord, How Many Are My Foes

5. Him Or His God We Not Fear

6. Jehovah, to My Words Give Ear

7. Him Or His God We Scorn to Fear

8. The Highest, Who in Heav'n Doth Dwell

9. Oh, Who Shall Pour Into My Swollen Eyes

10. Fly from the Threat'ning Vengeance

11. Humbled With Fear

12. His Scepter Is the Rod of Righteousness

13. Be Wise at Length

14. Of Many Millions the Populous Rout

15. Jehovah Is My Shield, My Glory

16. Fools Or Madmen Stand

17. God Found Them Guilty

18. Oh Liberty, Thou Choicest Treasure

19. Who Trusts in God

20. Prophetic Visions Strike My Eye

21. May God, from Whom All Mercies Spring

22. The Lord Hath Heard My Pray'r

23. Then Will I Jehovah's Praise

24. All His Mercies Shall Endure

Disc 2

1. How Great and Many Perils Do Enfold

2. After Long Storms and Tempests Overblown

3. To God, Our Strength

4. He Has His Mansion Fix'd On High

5. Hallelujah, Your Voices Raise

6. Sinfonia

7. I Will Sing to the Lord

8. Who Is Like Unto Thee, O Lord

9. He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain

10. When Warlike Ensigns Wave On High

11. The Enemy Said (Recitative)

12. The Enemy Said (Aria)

13. The Sword That's Drawn in Virtue's Cause

14. Millions Unborn Shall Bless the Hand

15. When Israel (Recitative)

16. When Israel (Aria)

17. Tyrants, Whom No Cov'nants Bind

18. May Balmy Peace (Recitative)

19. May Balmy Peace (Aria)

20. Blessed Are All They That Fear the Lord

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