 
Handel: Judas Maccabaeus
AMY024 (2 discs)
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: 64'04"/64'05" - TT 128'09"
Tracks: 30 + 28
Booklet pages: 52
© 2010 Festival de Wallonie, CAV&MA, Ambronay Éditions / Centre culturel de rencontre d'Ambronay
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Handel: Judas Maccabaeus published on 3 June 2010
Maria Soledad de la Rosa, soprano
Mariana Rewerski, mezzo-soprano
Fabián Schofrin, countertenor
Makoto Sakurada, tenor
Alejandro Meerapfel, baritone
Étienne Debaisieux, bass
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Les Agrémens
Leonardo García Alarcón, director
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
Judas Maccabaeus
CD1
1 Overture
Act 1
2 Chorus of Israelites: Mourn, ye afflicted children ...
3 Recitative: Well may your sorrows ...
4 Duet: From this dread scene ...
5 Chorus of Israelites: For Sion lamentation make ...
6 Recitative: Not vain is all this storm of grief ...
7 Air: Pious orgies, pious airs
8 Chorus of Israelites: O Father ...
9 Accompagnato: I feel the deity ...
10 Air: Arm! Ye brave ...
11 Chorus of Israelites: We come, in bright array ...
12 Recitative: 'Tis well, my friends ...
13 Air: Call forth thy powe'rs ...
14 Recitative: To Heaven's almighty King ...
15 Air: O liberty ...
16 Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty ...
17 Chorus of Israelites: Lead on, lead on!
18 Recitative: So will'd my father ...
19 Chorus of Israelites: Disdainful of danger ...
20 Recitative: Ambition!
21 Air: No unhallow'd desire ...
22 Chorus of Israelites: Hear us, O Lord ...
Act II
23 Chorus of Israelites: Fall'n is the foe ...
24 Recitative: Victorious hero!
25 Air: So rapid thy course is ...
26 Recitative: Well may we hope ...
27 Duet + chorus: Sion now ...
28 Recitative: Oh, let eternal honours ...
29 Air: From mighty kings ...
30 Duet + chorus: Hail, Hail ...
CD2
1 Recitative: Thanks to my brethren ...
2 Air: How vain is man ...
3 Recitative: O Judas ...
4 Air: Ah, wretched ...
5 Recitative: Be comforted ...
6 Air: The Lord worketh wonders ...
7 Recitative: My arms!
8 Air: Sound an alarm!
9 Solemn March during the circumvection of the Ark of the Covenant
10 Recitative: Enough! To Heaven ...
11 Air: With pious hearts ...
12 Recitative: Ye worshippers ... / No more in Sion
13 Duet: Oh, never bow we down ...
Act III
14 Introduction
15 Air: Father of Heaven ...
16 Accompagnato: See, see yon flames ... / Oh, grant it ...
17 Air: So shall the lute ...
18 Recitative: From Capharsalama ...
19 Air: Cease thy anguish ...
20 Recitative: Yet more, Nicanor ...
21 Chorus of Youths, Virgins and Israelites: See! The conqu'ring hero comes ...
22 Chorus of Israelites: Sing unto God ...
23 Recitative: Sweet flow the strains ...
24 Air: With honour let desert be crown'd ...
25 Recitative: Peace to my countrymen ...
26 Recitative: Again to earth ...
27 Duet: O lovely peace ...
28 Air: Rejoice, O Judah .../Hallelujah! Amen
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