Handel: SAUL (English Oratorio in three acts, performed according to the traditions of the time)
Jürgen Budday, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronn Monastery Edition, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner
Along The Monster Atheist Strode (Chorus: Alto, Tenor, Basso)
Oh, Early Piety! Oh, Modest Merit! (Jonathan) - What Abject Thoughts A Prince Can Have (Air Merab)
Oh, Early Piety! Oh, Modest Merit! (Jonathan) - What Abject Thoughts A Prince Can Have (Air Merab)
Yet Think On Whom This Honour You Bestow (Merab) - Birth And Fortune I Despise! (Air Jonathan)
Thou, Merab, First In Birth, Be First In Honour (Saul) - My Soul Rejects The Thought With Scorn (Air Merab)
See, With What A Scornful Air - Ah, Lovely Youth, Wast Thou Design'd (Air Michal)
See, With What A Scornful Air - Ah, Lovely Youth, Wast Thou Design'd (Air Michal)
What Do I Hear? Am I Then Sunk So Low (Accomp. Saul) - David His Ten Thousands Slew (Chorus Of Israelites)
To Him Ten Thousands, And To Me But Thousands - With Rage I Shall Burst His Praises To Hear (Accomp. & Air Saul)
Imprudent Women (Jonathan) - 'Tis But His Old Disease, Which Thou Canst Cure (Michal)
Imprudent Women (Jonathan) - 'Tis But His Old Disease, Which Thou Canst Cure (Michal)
Racked With Infernal Pains (Abner) - O Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless (Air David)
'Tis All In Vain; His Fury Still Continues (Jonathan) - A Serpent, In My Bosom Warm'd (Air Saul)
Has He Escap'd My Rage? (Saul) - Capricious Man, In Humour Lost (Air Merab)
No, Cruel Father, No! I Must Defend Against The World My Best, My Dearest Friend (Air Jonathan)
No, Cruel Father, No! I Must Defend Against The World My Best, My Dearest Friend (Air Jonathan)
Ah, Dearest Friend (Jonathan) - But Sooner Jordan's Stream, I Swear (Air Jonathan)
My Father Comes
Hast Thou Obey'd My Orders (Saul) - Sin Not, O King, Against The Youth (Air Jonathan)
Appear, My Friend (Jonathan) - No More Imagine Danger (Saul) - Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart (Air David)
Appear, My Friend (Jonathan) - No More Imagine Danger (Saul) - Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart (Air David)
Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter! But How Long Shall He Enjoy Her? (Saul)
A Father's Will Has Authorized My Love (Michal) - O Fairest Of Ten Thousand Fair (Duet Michal & David)
Thy Father Is As Cruel (David) - At Persecution I Can Laugh (Duet David & Michal)
Whom Dost Thou Seek? (Michal) - I Seek For David (Doeg) - No, No, Let The Guilty Tremble (Air Michal)
Whom Dost Thou Seek? (Michal) - I Seek For David (Doeg) - No, No, Let The Guilty Tremble (Air Michal)
Author Of Peace, Who Canst Control Every Passion Of The Soul (Air Merab)
Where Is The Son Of Jesse? Comes He Not To Grace Our Feast? (Saul & Jonathan)
Where Is The Son Of Jesse? Comes He Not To Grace Our Feast? (Saul & Jonathan)
'Tis Said, Here Lives A Woman, Close Familiar With Th'enemy Of Mankind (Accomp. Saul)
With Me What Would'st Thou? (Witch) - I Would, That By Thy Art Thou Bring Me Up The Man Whom I Shall Name (Saul)
Infernal Spirits, By Whose Pow'r Departed Ghosts In Living Forms Appear (Air Witch)
Infernal Spirits, By Whose Pow'r Departed Ghosts In Living Forms Appear (Air Witch)
Why Hast Thou Forc'd Me From The Realms Of Peace - O Holy Prophet (Accomp. Samuel & Saul)
Why Hast Thou Forc'd Me From The Realms Of Peace - O Holy Prophet (Accomp. Samuel & Saul)
From This Unhappy Day No More, Ye Gilboan Hills, On You Descend Refreshing Rains Or Kindly Dew (Air Merab)
From This Unhappy Day No More, Ye Gilboan Hills, On You Descend Refreshing Rains Or Kindly Dew (Air Merab)
Eagles Were Not So Swift As They (Chorus Of Israelites)
George Frideric Handel, Edition Monastery Maulbronn
Gird On Thy Sword - Go On, Be Prosperous In Fight (Chorus Of Israelites)