‎Handel: Saul by Hannoversche Hofkapelle

Symphony: Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro

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

8:59

How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (Chorus)

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

3:03

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

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

1:57

Trio: Along the Monster Atheist Strode (Chorus)

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

1:04

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

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

1:59

How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (Chorus)

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

2:27

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

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

3:23

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

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

0:55

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

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

5:21

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

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

2:50

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

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

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, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Jürgen Budday, Steffen Balbach

1:43

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

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

1:57

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

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

1:34

Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King! (Chorus)

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

1:47

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

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

1:02

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

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

1:45

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

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

0:50

Air: Fell Rage and Black Despair Possest (Michal)

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

2:43

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

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

4:52

Symphony (Arpa): Largo

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

1:47

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

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

2:32

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

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

4:07

Accompagnato: O Filial Piety! (Jonathan)

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

1:55

Air: No, Cruel Father, No (Jonathan)

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

1:33

Air: O Lord, Whose Providence (High Priest)

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

1:48

Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name (Chorus)

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

2:42

Envy! Eldest-born of Hell! (Chorus)

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

2:37

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

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

2:56

Recitative: My Father Comes (Jonathan)

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

0:20

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

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

3:10

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

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

1:40

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

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

2:20

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

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

1:41

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

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

0:30

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

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

3:15

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

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

1:22

Symphony: Largo - Allegro

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

3:34

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

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

2:01

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

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

2:21

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

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

0:48

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

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

3:08

Symphony: Allegro

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

1:16

Accompagnato: The Time At Length Is Come (Saul)

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

0:43

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

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

1:03

O Fatal Consequence (Chorus)

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

4:39

Accompagnato: Wretch That I Am! (Saul)

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

2:47

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

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

0:50

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

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

0:43

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

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

1:48

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

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

3:36

Symphony: Allegro

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

0:38

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

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

1:21

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

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

2:13

March: Grave - Largo e Staccato

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

4:00

Mourn: Israel, Mourn Thy Beauty Lost (Chorus)

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

4:46

Air: From This Unhappy Day (Merab)

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

3:08

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

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

2:41

Eagles Were Not So Swift As They (Chorus)

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

0:21

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

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

4:49

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

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

5:14

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

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

0:31

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

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

5:51

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Hannoversche Hofkapelle

Orchestra
Michael Chance

Countertenor
Nancy Argenta

Soprano
Stephen Varcoe

Bass-Baritone

Handel: Saul

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