‎Handel: Saul by Michael Berner — Apple Music Classical

Symphony: Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro

Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

8:59

How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

3:03

Air: An Infant Rais'd By Thy Command (Soprano)

Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

1:57

Trio: Along the Monster Atheist Strode (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

1:04

The Youth Inspir'd By Thee, O Lord (Chorus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta

1:59

How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (Chorus)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

2:27

Recitative: He Comes! - Air: O God-like Youth! (Michal)

Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

3:23

Recitative: Behold, O King… Young Man… the Son of Jesse (Abner, Saul, David)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

0:55

Air: O King, Your Favours With Delight (David)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance

5:21

Recitative: O Early Piety! (Jonathan) - Air: What Abject Thoughts a Prince Can Have (Merab)

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner

2:50

Recitative: Yet Think With Whom This Honour You Bestow (Merab) - Air: Birth and Fortune I Despise! (Jonathan)

Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle

5:27

Recitative: Thou, Merab, First in Birth (Saul) - Air: My Soul Rejects the Thought With Scorn (Merab)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner

1:43

Air: See With What a Scornful Air - Air: Ah, Lovely Youth! (Michal)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

1:57

Symphony: Andante Allegro - Recitative: Already See the Daughters of the Land (Michal)

Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

1:34

Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King! (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach

1:47

Accompagnato: What Do I Hear? (Saul) - David His Ten Thousands Slew (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

1:02

Accompagnato: To Him Ten Thousands! - Air: With Rage I Shall Burst His Praises to Hear! (Saul)

Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

1:45

Recitative: Imprudent Women!… 'Tis But His Old Disease (Jonathan, Michal)

Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance

0:50

Air: Fell Rage and Black Despair Possest (Michal)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

2:43

Recitative: Rack'd With Infernal Pains (Abner) - Air: O Lord, Whose Mercies No. less (David)

Michael Chance, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

4:52

Symphony (Arpa): Largo

Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

1:47

Recitative: 'Tis All in Vain (Jonathan) - Air: A Serpent: In My Bosom Warm'd (Saul)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle

2:32

Recitative: Has He Escap'd My Rage? (Saul) - Air: Capricious Man: In Humour Lost (Merab)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance

4:07

Accompagnato: O Filial Piety! (Jonathan)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach

1:55

Air: No, Cruel Father, No (Jonathan)

Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

1:33

Air: O Lord, Whose Providence (High Priest)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

1:48

Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Michael Berner, George Frideric Handel

2:42

Envy! Eldest-born of Hell! (Chorus)

Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

2:37

Recitative: Ah, Dearest Friend - Air: But Sooner Jordan's Stream: I Swear (Jonathan)

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

2:56

Recitative: My Father Comes (Jonathan)

Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle

0:20

Recitative: Hast Thou Obey'd My Orders… Alas, My Father! (Saul, Jonathan) - Air: Sin Not, O King, Against the Youth (Jonathan)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

3:10

Air: As Great Jehovah Lives: I Swear (Saul)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

1:40

Air: From Cities Storm'd, and Battles Won (Jonathan)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

2:20

Recitative: Appear, My Friend… No More Imagine Danger (Jonathan, Saul) - Air: Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart (David)

Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

1:41

Recitative: Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter! (Saul)

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

0:30

Recitative: A Father's Will Has Authoriz'd My Love (Michal) - Duet: O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair (Michal, David)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

3:15

Is There a Man, Who All His Ways Directs (Chorus)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

1:22

Symphony: Largo - Allegro

Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

3:34

Recitative: Thy Father Is As Cruel, and As False (David) - Duet: At Persecution I Can Laugh (David, Michal)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

2:01

Recitative: Whom Dost Thou Seek?… I Seek for David (Michal, Doeg) - Air: No, No, Let the Guilty Tremble (Michal)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

2:21

Recitative: Mean As He Was, He Is My Brother Now (Merab)

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

0:48

Air: Author of Peace, Who Canst Controll (Merab)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

3:08

Symphony: Allegro

Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

1:16

Accompagnato: The Time At Length Is Come (Saul)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

0:43

Recitative: Where Is the Son of Jesse?… He Earnestly Asked Leave (Saul, Jonathan)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

1:03

O Fatal Consequence (Chorus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

4:39

Accompagnato: Wretch That I Am! (Saul)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

2:47

Recitative and Accompagnato: 'Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman (Saul)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

0:50

Recitative: With Me What Would'st Thou?… I Wou'd (Witch of Endor, Saul)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, George Frideric Handel

0:43

Air: Infernal Spirits, By Wose Pow'r (Witch of Endor)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor

1:48

Accompagnato: Why Hast Thou Force'd Me from the Realm of Peace… O Holy Prophet, Holy Prophet! (Samuel, Saul)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

3:36

Symphony: Allegro

Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

0:38

Recitative: Whence Com'st Thou?… Out of the Camp of Israel (David, Amalekite)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, George Frideric Handel

1:21

Air: Impious Wretch, of Race Accurst! (David)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

2:13

March: Grave - Largo e Staccato

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

4:00

Mourn: Israel, Mourn Thy Beauty Lost (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe

4:46

Air: From This Unhappy Day (Merab)

Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

3:08

Air: Brave Jonathan His Bow Ne'er Drew (David)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta

2:41

Eagles Were Not So Swift As They (Chorus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

0:21

Air: In Sweetest Harmony They Liv'd (Michal)

Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

4:49

O Fatal Day! How Low the Mighty Lie! (David, Chorus)

Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

5:14

Air: Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More (High Priest)

Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

0:31

Gird On Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might (Chorus)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner

5:51

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Michael Chance

Countertenor
Maulbronner Kammerchor

Choir
Nancy Argenta

Soprano
Stephen Varcoe

Bass-Baritone

Handel: Saul

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