Saul

by George Frideric Handel

Tracklist

CD 1

  1. Saul: Symphony: Allegro4:05
  2. Saul: Symphony: Larghetto1:52
  3. Saul: Symphony: Allegro2:47
  4. Saul: Symphony: Andante larghetto3:20
  5. Saul: Act One: 1. “How excellent Thy name, o Lord”2:45
  6. Saul: Act One: 2. “An infant raised” / 3. “Along the monster atheist strode”2:32
  7. Saul: Act One: 4. “The youth inspired by Thee, o Lord”1:50
  8. Saul: Act One: 5. “How excellent Thy name, o Lord”2:20
  9. Saul: Act One: 6. “He comes” / 7. “O God‐like youth”3:06
  10. Saul: Act One: 8. “Behold, o king, the brave, victorious youth”0:45
  11. Saul: Act One: 9. “O king, your favours with delight” / 10. “O early piety!”5:15
  12. Saul: Act One: 11. “What abject thoughts” / 12. “Yet think on whom this honour”2:27
  13. Saul: Act One: 13. “Birth and fortune I despise”4:05
  14. Saul: Act One: 14. “Go on, illustrious pair!” / 15. “While yet thy tide of blood”2:31
  15. Saul: Act One: 16. “Thou, Merab, first in birth” / 17. “My soul rejects” / 18. “See, with what a scornful air” / 19. “Ah, lovely youth”3:22
  16. Saul: Act One: 20. Symphony / 21. “Already see the daughters” / 22. “Welcome, welcome, mighty king!”2:46
  17. Saul: Act One: 23. “What do I hear?” / 24. “David his ten thousands slew” / 25. “To him ten thousands”1:09
  18. Saul: Act One: 26. “With rage I shall burst”1:20
  19. Saul: Act One: 27. “Imprudent women!”0:39
  20. Saul: Act One: 28. “Fell rage and black despair possessed”2:34
  21. Saul: Act One: 29. “This but the smallest part of Harmony” / 30. “By thee this universal frame”2:35
  22. Saul: Act One: 31. “Racked with infernal pains”0:13
  23. Saul: Act One: 32. “O Lord, whose mercies numberless” / 33. Symphony5:09
  24. Saul: Act One: 34. “’Tis all in vain” / 35. “A serpent, in my bosom warmed” / 36. “Has he escaped my rage?”2:17
  25. Saul: Act One: 37. “Capricious man”3:37
  26. Saul: Act One: 38. “O filial piety!”1:23
  27. Saul: Act One: 39. “No, cruel father, no!”1:34
  28. Saul: Act One: 40. “O Lord, whose providence”1:35
  29. Saul: Act One: 41. “Preserve him for the glory”2:51
  30. [Applause]0:25

CD 2

  1. Saul: Act Two: 42. “Envy! eldest born of hell!”2:49
  2. Saul: Act Two: 43. “Ah, dearest friend”0:32
  3. Saul: Act Two: 44. “But sooner Jordan’s stream”2:08
  4. Saul: Act Two: 45. “O strange vicissitude!”0:46
  5. Saul: Act Two: 46. “Such haughty beauties”4:17
  6. Saul: Act Two: 47. “My father comes” / 48. “Hast thou obeyed my orders”0:44
  7. Saul: Act Two: 49. “Sin not, o king”2:09
  8. Saul: Act Two: 50. “As great Jehovah lives”1:17
  9. Saul: Act Two: 51. “From cities stormed”2:13
  10. Saul: Act Two: 52. “Appear, my friend”0:31
  11. Saul: Act Two: 53. “Your words, o king” / 54. “Yes, he shall wed my daughter”1:24
  12. Saul: Act Two: 55. “A father’s will”0:27
  13. Saul: Act Two: 56. “Oh fairest of ten thousand fair” / 57. “Is there a man”4:05
  14. Saul: Act Two: 58. Symphony4:07
  15. Saul: Act Two: 59. “Thy father is as cruel”0:33
  16. Saul: Act Two: 60. “At persecution I can laugh”1:14
  17. Saul: Act Two: 61. “Whom dost thou seek?”0:30
  18. Saul: Act Two: 62. “No, no let the guilty tremble”1:27
  19. Saul: Act Two: 63. “Mean as he was”0:49
  20. Saul: Act Two: 64. “Author of peace”3:11
  21. Saul: Act Two: 65. Symphony1:13
  22. Saul: Act Two: 66. “The time at length is come” / 67. “Where is the son of Jesse?”1:33
  23. Saul: Act Two: 68. “Oh fatal consequence”5:37

CD 3

  1. Saul: Act Three: 69. “Wretch that I am” / 70. “’Tis said, here lives a woman” / 71. “With me what would’st thou?”3:45
  2. Saul: Act Three: 72. “Infernal spirits”2:13
  3. Saul: Act Three: 73. “Why hast thou forced me”3:02
  4. Saul: Act Three: 74. Symphony0:35
  5. Saul: Act Three: 75. “Whence comest thou” / 76. “Impious wretch”2:39
  6. Saul: Act Three: 77. Dead March3:06
  7. Saul: Act Three: 78. “Mourn, Israel”3:25
  8. Saul: Act Three: 79. “Oh let it not in Gath be heard”2:06
  9. Saul: Act Three: 80. “From this unhappy day”2:53
  10. Saul: Act Three: 81. “Brave Jonathan his bow never drew”2:24
  11. Saul: Act Three: 82. “Eagles were not so swift as they”0:21
  12. Saul: Act Three: 83. “In sweetest harmony”4:28
  13. Saul: Act Three: 84. “O fatal day!”4:40
  14. Saul: Act Three: 85. “Ye men of Judah, weep no more”0:27
  15. Saul: Act Three: 86. “Gird on thy sword”5:17
  16. [Applause]0:28