‎Handel: Saul, HWV 53 by Sir Philip Ledger

Sinfonia. Allegro - Larghetto

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

12:52

Chorus. "How Excellent Thy Name, Oh Lord" (Israelites)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

3:17

Aria. "An Infant Rais'd by Thy Command" (Soprano)

Sir Philip Ledger, Sally Burgess, English Chamber Orchestra

1:27

Chorus. "Along the Monster Atheist Strode" (Israelites)

Sir Philip Ledger, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra

1:13

Chorus. "The Youth Inspired by Thee, Oh Lord" (Israelites)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

3:24

Chorus. "Hallelujah" (Israelites)

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

2:05

Recitative. "He Comes, he Comes!" (Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra

0:04

Aria. "Oh God-Like Youth" (Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Margaret Marshall

3:22

Recitative. "Behold, Oh King" (Abner, Saul, David)

Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Ledger, Charles Daniels, Paul Esswood, English Chamber Orchestra

0:58

Aria. "Oh King, Your Favours with Delight" (David)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Paul Esswood

6:24

Recitative. "Oh Early Piety" (Jonathan)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:30

Aria. "What Abject Thoughts a Prince Can Have!" (Merab)

Sally Burgess, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

2:28

Recitative. "Yet Think, on Whom This Honour You Bestow" (Merab)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sally Burgess, Sir Philip Ledger

0:19

Aria. "Birth and Fortune I Despise" (Jonathan)

Robert Tear, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

5:10

Recitative. "Thou, Merab, First in Birth" (Saul, Merab)

Sir Philip Ledger, Sir Thomas Allen, Sally Burgess, English Chamber Orchestra

0:24

Aria. "My Soul Rejects the Thought with Scorn" (Merab)

Sir Philip Ledger, Sally Burgess, English Chamber Orchestra

1:33

Aria. "See, See, with a Scournful Air" (Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra

1:11

Aria. "Ah! Lovely Youth" (Michal)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall

1:00

Sinfonia. Andante - Allegro

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

1:15

Recitative. "Already See the Daughters of the Land" (Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra

0:22

Chorus. "Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King!" (Israelites)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

1:42

Accompagnato. "What Do I Hear?" (Saul)

Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

0:23

Chorus. "David His Ten Thousands Slew" (Israelites)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

0:38

Accompagnato. "To Him Ten Thousands" (Saul)

Sir Philip Ledger, Sir Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra

0:14

Aria. "With Rage I Shall Burst" (Saul)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Ledger

1:23

Recitative. "Imprudent Women !" (Jonathan, Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:56

Aria. "Fell Rage and Black Despair Posses'd" (Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra

3:24

Recitative. "Racked with Infernal Pains" (Abner)

Charles Daniels, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Sally Burgess, Gareth Morrell, Sir Thomas Allen, Margaret Marshall, Matthew Best, Martyn Hill, Robert Tear, Paul Esswood

0:20

Aria. "O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" (David)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood

4:03

Sinfonia

Thelma Owen

1:48

Recitative. "Tis All in Vain" (Jonathan)

Robert Tear, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Gareth Morrell, Sally Burgess, Charles Daniels, Margaret Marshall, Matthew Best, Sir Thomas Allen, Paul Esswood, Martyn Hill

0:23

Aria. "A Serpent, in My Bosom Warmed" (Saul)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Sir Thomas Allen

2:09

Recitative. "Has He Escaped My Rage?" (Saul)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Thomas Allen

0:25

Aria. "Capricious Man, in Humour Lost" (Merab)

Sally Burgess, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

4:20

Accompagnato. "Oh Filial Piety!" (Jonathan)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

1:50

Aria. "No, No Cruel Father, No!" (Jonathan)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

1:47

Chorus. "Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name" (Israelites)

English Chamber Orchestra, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

3:00

Chorus. "Envy! Eldest Born of Hell!" (Israelites)

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

2:57

Recitative. "Ah! Dearest Friend" (Jonathan)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

0:36

Aria. "But Sooner Jordan's Stream" (Jonathan)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear

2:26

Recitative. "Oh Strange Vicissitude" (David, Jonathan)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Paul Esswood

0:48

Aria. "Such Haughty Beauties Rather Move" (David)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Paul Esswood

5:16

Recitative. "My Father Comes" (Jonathan)

Sir Philip Ledger, Robert Tear, English Chamber Orchestra, Gareth Morrell, Margaret Marshall, Matthew Best, Sir Thomas Allen, Sally Burgess, Charles Daniels, Martyn Hill, Paul Esswood

0:15

Recitative. "Hast Thou Obey'd My Orders" (Saul, Jonathan)

Robert Tear, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Sir Thomas Allen

0:38

Aria. "Sin Not, Oh King, Against the Youth" (Jonathan)

English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir Philip Ledger

2:01

Aria. "As Great Jehovah Lives" (Saul)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Sir Thomas Allen

1:49

Aria. "From Cities Stormed" (Jonathan)

English Chamber Orchestra, Robert Tear, Sir Philip Ledger

2:18

Recitative. "Appear, My Friend" (Jonathan, Saul)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Ledger, Robert Tear

0:37

Aria. "Your Words, Oh King" (David)

Paul Esswood, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

1:13

Recitative. "Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter" (Saul)

Sir Philip Ledger, Sir Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra, Martyn Hill, Robert Tear, Sally Burgess, Charles Daniels, Margaret Marshall, Matthew Best, Gareth Morrell, Paul Esswood

0:29

Recitative. "A Father's Will Has Authorized My Love" (Michal)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall

0:35

Duet. "Oh Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair" (Michal, David)

Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood

3:17

Chorus. "Is There a Man?" (Israelites)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

1:50

Sinfonia. Largo - Allegro

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

5:21

Recitative. "Thy Father Is as Cruel..." (David)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Paul Esswood

0:35

Duet. "At Persecution I Can Laugh" (David, Michal)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Margaret Marshall, Paul Esswood

1:30

Recitative. "Whom Dost Thou Seek?" (Michal, Doeg)

Margaret Marshall, Gareth Morrell, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

0:41

Aria. "No, No Let the Guilty Tremble" (Michal)

Margaret Marshall, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

2:04

Sinfonia. Allegro

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

1:24

Accompagnato. "The Time at Length Is Come" (Saul)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Thomas Allen

0:38

Recitative. "Where Is the Son of Jesse?" (Saul, Jonathan)

Sir Thomas Allen, Robert Tear, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

1:14

Chorus. "O Fatal Consequence" (Israelites)

Sir Philip Ledger, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra

4:33

Accompagnato. "Wretch That I am!" (Saul)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Thomas Allen

2:32

Recitative. "Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman" (Saul)

Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

0:55

Recitative. "With Me What Would'st Thou?" (Witch, Saul)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Thomas Allen, Martyn Hill

0:49

Aria. "Infernal Spirits" (Witch)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Martyn Hill

1:54

Accompagnato. "Why Hast Thou Forced Me" (Samuel, Saul)

Sir Thomas Allen, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best, Sir Philip Ledger

3:44

Sinfonia. Allegro

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

0:46

Recitative. "Whence Comst Thou?" (David, An Amalekite)

Sir Philip Ledger, Christopher Gillett, English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood

1:06

Aria. "Impious Wrecht" (David)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Paul Esswood

1:56

Dead March

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

4:08

Chorus. "Mourn, Israel" (Israelites)

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

3:32

Aria. "Oh Let Is Not in Gath Beheard" (High Priest)

Sir Philip Ledger, Charles Daniels, English Chamber Orchestra

2:48

Aria. "From This Unhappy Day" (Merab)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Sally Burgess

2:51

Aria. "Brave Jonathan" (Merab)

Sally Burgess, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

0:30

Chorus. "Eagles Were Not so Swift as They Lived" (Israelites)

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra

0:25

Aria. "In Sweetest Harmony" (Michal)

English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger, Margaret Marshall

4:28

Solo and Chorus. "Oh Fatal Day!" (David, Israelites)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Paul Esswood, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

4:04

Recitative. "Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More" (Abner)

Sir Philip Ledger, English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Daniels

0:33

Chorus. "Gird on Thy Sword" (Israelites)

English Chamber Orchestra, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir Philip Ledger

6:30

John Willan

Producer
Neville Boyling

Engineer, Tonmeister

Handel: Saul, HWV 53

RECORD LABEL

George Frideric Handel

Sir Philip Ledger

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

English Chamber Orchestra

Sally Burgess

Production

Handel: Saul, HWV 53

RECORD LABEL

On This Album

George Frideric Handel

Sir Philip Ledger

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

English Chamber Orchestra

Sally Burgess

Production